The Charlie Brooker Collection

[redheart]

Charlie Brooker has a splendid new comedy panel show on Radio four called So Wrong Its Right. Its good stuff. The episode where Lee Mack rips him to shred for Tweeting is ace.

 

PS. Brooker is in danger of over exposure on TV

[The Robot Tank]

I had no idea her rack was that good!

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

Charlie Brooker has a splendid new comedy panel show on Radio four called So Wrong Its Right. Its good stuff.

 

It's ace. Shame it has just finished.

[Mendoza]

 

 

Konnie Huq's X Factor pants display as she limbo dances at auditions | Mail Online

[Catch22]

How can he be so mildly depressed about things if he is banging Konnie Huq?

 

His entire career is ruined but he is banging Konnie Huq so he has had a massive result

[Remmie]

He put the following on Twitter if any of you are interested in appearing on one of his TV shows:

Interested in participating in new show I'm doing? Then lob a blank email to yesplease@zeppotron.com - it'll reply w/ info. Should work now.

 

I got a reply that said the following:

Thanks for getting in touch.

 

Charlie is making a new series for BBC2 and we are looking for people to join him in an experiment.

 

Contributors will be required to talk to Charlie about their personal life experiences on camera.

 

Participants should expect confrontational questioning in Charlie's usual abrasive style.

 

A few logistical points

 

-You will need to be available on Saturday 17th July in London for filming

 

- If you are still interested in being part of Charlie's new show, please reply to [mail]definitelyinterested@zeppotron.com[/email] giving your name, contact details and age and one of Charlie's team will give you a call. Please note that, due to high volumes of responses, it may not be possible to reply to everyone who applies to take part in the series.

 

IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE USE OF YOUR DATA

 

1.Personal information which you supply to Zeppotron Ltd during the application and casting process will be used in a number of ways eg in selecting potential contributors for the series: and to be able to develop and produce the series we will not publish your address or contact details to any third parties.

 

2.Your personal information will be shared with members of the series production team and relevant staff at the broadcaster of the series, and may be shared with the broadcaster's insurers.

 

3.Zeppotron Ltd will ensure that any information provided for the purposes of producing the series will be used in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.

 

4.All information will be kept secure and treated as confidential and will only be disclosed with your permission (including

any permissions you give here or in the rest of the contributor selection process).

 

5.You have the right of access to the information held and used by us. If at any point you decide that you no longer want us to hold, use of process any of the personal information or you want to update your contact details please email us at dataproection@endemoluk.com and we will amend or remove your personal information from our records.

 

Can't make it myself as I will be at Latitude.

Edited July 12, 2010 by Remmie

[Mendoza]

Heads up- the You Have Been Watching Crime Special that was cancelled a few months ago because of Derrick Bird's antics is finally being shown on E4 in about 2 minutes.

[Thants]

Apparently there was someone else in this video

 

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[stevebaby]

Thanks to the GF,I have discovered Charlie Brooker with a vengeance.I had to pay some bills so decided to fuck off from work early and once the biz was done I called into my favourite bookshop for a browse until I could meet up with the usual bunch of pisstanks for a post-work adult refreshment.I had an hour to fill in th pub so I started to read it...this has resulted in some (much) insane cackling,a warning from the publican,and shunning from my drinking acquaintances. To whom I respond "Get fucked by a pack Thanks to the GF,I have discovered Charlie Brooker with a vengeance.I had to pay some bills so decided to fuck off from work early and once the biz was done I called into my favourite bookshop for a browse until I could meet up with the usual bunch of pisstanks for a post-work adult refreshment.I had an hour to fill in th pub so I started to read it...this has resulted in some (much) insane cackling,a warning from the publican,and shunning from my drinking acquaintances. To whom I respond "Get fucked by a pack of baboons".

Charlie's book just leapt out and grabbed me by the orchestras and demanded to be bought after I browsed it for a couple of pages. I have been lifted to a new level of humour,cynicism,self loathing, hatred for the human species and a sensual luxuriance in the sheer glory of his ability to craft a sentence. It's like the best sex I ever had or could ever imagine.

I love Charlie Brooker (in a hetero way of course),the GF for introducing "us" and Fat Yak Ale in equal measure.

Get in there. You will not be disappointed.

 

Charlie Brooker – The Hell of it All – possibly the best book ever written? « Derren Brown Blog

[Rocky Sullivan]

That video was definitely leading up to some boss clam bashing.

[Remmie]

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[Mendoza]

Charlie Brooker: Why I'm calling time on Screen Burn | Television & radio | The Guardian

[Remmie]

Charlie Brooker: Why I'm calling time on Screen Burn | Television & radio | The Guardian

Immense and I'm only half way through, absolutely pissed myself at the following:

 

David Dickinson was an ageing Thundercat

 

Alan Sugar reminded me of a water buffalo straining to shit in a lake

 

Ann Widdecombe had a face like a haunted cave in Poland

[Pony Princess]

Nathan Barley gets the bus

 

NB was criminally underrated

[Mendoza]

Immense and I'm only half way through, absolutely pissed myself at the following:

 

David Dickinson was an ageing Thundercat

 

Alan Sugar reminded me of a water buffalo straining to shit in a lake

 

Ann Widdecombe had a face like a haunted cave in Poland

 

Yep, thats my favourite too.

[cochyn]

Nigel Lythgoe was "Eric Idle watching a dog drown".

 

Still chuckling here...

[Pidge]

Mr Brooker's new show started tonight. I'd suggest checking iPlayer if you missed it. I especially liked the homage to the fireworks factory explosion that happened in my home village when I was 13 or 14 at the beginning.

[Pony Princess]

I'll always follow Mr Brooker. I know he was a writer on the sublime Brass Eye but I do still believe that Nathan Barley was his finest work.

 

Might be poor stoned brain but was Konnie Huq also the girl with MS in BBC's Ideal?

[Teflon Don]

Apologies if this has already been posted on here today....

 

Q: When does a tabloid become crude propaganda? A: When it starts printing it

 

The Daily Star is either irresponsible in its sloppy reporting, or engaging in overt anti-Muslim propaganda Tory chairman Baroness Warsi recently complained that Islamophobic chatter had become acceptable at dinner parties. I hate to break it to you, Baroness, but if they're saying anti-Islamic stuff while you're sitting at the table, imagine what they come out with when you nip off to the loo.

 

A few weeks later, David Cameron delivered his speech on multiculturalism, and Warsi's notional dinner-mates doubtless nodded in agreement, even though the very word "multiculturalism" has so many definitions it almost requires translation. It's not black and white. Which is ironic.

 

As a result it was possible to draw almost any conclusion from Cameron's speech, from "segregation is unhelpful" to "send 'em back". Cameron is many things – including an android, probably – but a racist he is not.

 

So he was doubtless dismayed that his speech went down well with the BNP's Nick Griffin, who interpreted it as a "huge leap for our ideas into the political mainstream". When I read that, my sense of hope took a huge leap into a shit-filled dustbin.

 

The speech was also welcomed by Tommy Robinson of the English Defence League – and Stephen Lennon of the English Defence League. Who are both the same person, Robinson being Lennon's pseudonym. Mr Robinson-Lennon claims he's opposed only to extremist Muslims, not moderate ones, although how he hopes to tell them apart when he seems unsure of his own name is anyone's guess.

 

But then certain elements of the EDL seem confused by names in general. Several of them have been heard chanting "Allah, Allah, who the fuck is Allah?" If they don't know who he is, perhaps they ought to read that book they want to ban.

 

Robinson-Lennon recently appeared on Newsnight, up against Paxman. Not a classic battle of wits, but nonetheless the EDL's man came out on top: while middle-class viewers may have chortled at Robinson-Lennon's relative inarticulacy, others may have seen a member of the establishment sneering at a working-class white guy. Admittedly, Paxman sneers at everybody; he can't catch sight of his own reflection in the back of a spoon without asking who the fuck he thinks he is. But it reinforces the view that the white working classes are marginalised and looked down on by the media.

 

Not the entire media, mind. Some tabloids do little more but speak up for the white working classes – the Daily Star in particular. Which would be great, if the Daily Star didn't patronise its readers by repeatedly publishing lies.

 

Sometimes they're daft lies. Take the lie about the company behind Grand Theft Auto planning a game called Grand Theft Rothbury, inspired by the Raoul Moat saga. "We made no attempt to check the accuracy of the story before publication . . . We apologise for publishing a mock-up of the game cover, our own comments on the matter and soliciting critical comments from a grieving family member," read part of the paper's subsequent grovelling apology.

 

Sometimes they're visual lies. Take the time it Photoshopped a bald scalp and headscarf on to an image of Jade Goody in a wedding dress, to make it look as though she'd posed for the picture during chemotherapy.

 

Sometimes the lies appear on its front page, in a way that might alter a reader's view of Muslims. When not furiously recounting whichever grotesquely offensive stunt professional button-pushing irritant Anjem Choudary's come up with this week – stories which are not lies – it gets worked up over other "Muslim outrages" with little or no basis in fact. Take the story "MUSLIM-ONLY PUBLIC LOOS: Council wastes YOUR money on hole-in-the-ground toilets". Weeks after that appeared, the Star admitted that "the loos may be used by non-Muslims and were paid for by the developer".

 

And sometimes it doesn't quite lie, but misrepresents by omission. Take the story on 8 February "WE'LL STAND UP AND FIGHT FOR BRITAIN'S BRAVE WAR HEROES", in which it is reported that "The English Defence League is planning a huge march after two Muslim councillors snubbed a British war hero given the George Cross". It refers to an incident in Birmingham where two Respect party councillors remained seated while more than 100 other politicians gave a soldier a standing ovation. Nowhere in the article does the Star mention that there were many other Muslim councillors (Tory, LibDem and Labour) present at the same event – all of whom did stand and applaud.

 

In other words, the Daily Star is either grossly irresponsible in its sloppy representation of the facts, or engaging in overt anti-Muslim propaganda.

 

Who can blame a reader who, after reading such a skewed version of events, is gripped with anti- Muslim fervour?

 

On the same page was a phone poll: DO YOU AGREE WITH THE EDL POLICIES? 98% of the respondents did. If I read the Star every day, and believed it, I'd join the EDL too.

 

Not that you have to be a dedicated reader to be exposed to its influence. Just pop into WH Smith's. There they are, those headlines, the steady drip-drip-drip: MUSLIM-ONLY LOOS and BBC PUTS MUSLIMS BEFORE YOU and MUSLIM SICKOS' MADDIE KIDNAP SHOCK (No, I haven't made that one up). Drip drip drip. Bullshit or exaggeration masquerading as fact. And to what aim?

 

On 9 February the Star ran a front-page headline claiming ENGLISH DEFENCE LEAGUE TO BECOME POLITICAL PARTY. Even that turned out to be dubious – their leader had merely said "we aren't ruling it out". Inside, another phone poll asked whether readers would vote for the EDL. 99% said yes.

 

Do they believe what they read in the Daily Star?

 

I believe this is a wonderful country. All of it. The people are inherently decent and fair-minded. All of them. We should resist crude attempts at division, wherever they come from. Because we deserve better. All of us.

[piscinin]

Apologies if this has already been posted on here today....

 

Very good article. The problem is though that this kind of thing is not limited to the tabloids, it is not limited to the right wing. It's in your textbooks, your manifestos, your parliamentary debates, ...

 

The only known antidote is as Chomsky recommends a course in intellectual self-defense.

 

This tries Amazon.com: A Short Course in Intellectual Self-Defense (9781583227657): Normand Baillargeon: Books and it includes a free Carl Sagan Baloney Detection Kit!

[Guest davelfc]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dawn-Dumb-Dispatches-Frontline-ebook/dp/B002RI91H6/ref=sr_1_5?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1349776945&sr=1-5

99p (kindle)

[setreal]

Watched the first two episodes of Black Mirror last night. First one was pretty good, the second one was brilliant I thought.

[Teflon Don]

Has, perhaps surprisingly, just won Best Comedy Entertainment Personality at the Comedy Awards. Looked suitably unimpressed.

[Teflon Don]

Someone asked on a different thread in the last couple of days, but 2012 Wipe is on BBC2 at 10pm on New Year's Day [Tuesday]: BBC Two - Charlie Brooker's 2012 Wipe

 

[Remmie]

Barry Shitpeas is great:

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