Charlie Brook
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14 of Charlie Brooker's most withering put-downs
Graphical representations of some of Charlie Brooker's most acerbic comments.
Us vs Th3m, 9th October 2013Charlie Brooker interview
The satirist and former Guardian columnist on a special screening of his drama Black Mirror, and why fame has made him rethink his comedy.
Andrew Anthony, The Guardian, 7th September 2013Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe to return
BBC Two has ordered a second series of Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe, the British Comedy Guide has learned.
British Comedy Guide, 30th August 2013Charlie Brooker: why I'm reducing my word emissions
Eagle-eyed readers may have spotted I haven't been writing for a while. Roughly two people noticed its absence, until the other day when a paragraph in Private Eye claimed I'd asked Alan Rusbridger, editor of the Guardian, to switch off the reader comments underneath my articles (not true), and that he'd refused to do so (also not true), so I'd quit (not entirely true).
Charlie Brooker, The Guardian, 29th July 2013Charlie Brooker: Dialogue is two monologues clashing
One of the handiest screenwriting tips I've ever encountered is a quote from Russell T Davies in a book about the making of Doctor Who. "Dialogue is just two monologues clashing".
Charlie Brooker, The Guardian, 29th April 2013Charlie Brooker: That's yer Thatcher Ding Dong
Maggie Thatcher died. Git-haired One Direction sex minnow Harry Styles hastily tweeted an RIP, prompting many of his fans to wonder aloud just who this "Thatcher" person was, much to the amusement of onlookers not quite smart enough to understand how time works.
Charlie Brooker, The Observer, 14th April 2013Charlie Brooker: live audience is weirdest creature
Now the TV audience has an offshoot: the extended online TV audience, which is quicker to judge and infinitely more vocal. The Twitter audience for every TV show consists of people actively willing themselves to be comically unimpressed.
Charlie Brooker, The Guardian, 24th March 2013Charlie Brooker: there are scripts for Series 3
Charlie Brooker says he has "ideas" for another run of Black Mirror if the show is recommissioned.
Radio Times, 20th March 2013Terry Mynott: 'Charlie Brooker made me die inside'
It's never easy when impressionists meet their targets as Terry Mynott revealed at the launch of his new Channel 4 comedy The Mimic.
The Guardian, 11th March 2013Black Mirror saw Charlie Brooker nail the zeitgeist
This was no simple swipe at the state of modern politics. 'I wasn't even articulate - or funny. Which is almost worse,' lamented lugubrious comedian Jamie, Waldo's voice and puppet-master.
Keith Watson, Metro, 26th February 2013