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This topical comedy show brings together young British comics, including Dane Baptiste, Ivo Graham, Rhys James, Ellie White and Jamie Demetriou. It feels like a scattershot ensemble, but makes slightly more sense when you learn this is being positioned as a reboot of The 11 O'Clock Show, the late-90s format that helped to shape the current comedy mainstream by employing everyone from Ricky Gervais to Sacha Baron Cohen, David Mitchell, Robert Webb, Charlie Brooker and Robert Popper.
Rachel Aroesti, The Guardian, 17th March 2016Satirical shows still not allowed parliament footage
Producers of political comedy still come up against one immovable obstacle: they cannot use footage of parliamentary proceedings. Chris Grayling, the Leader of the House of Commons, yesterday shot down a request from Rupa Huq, a Labour MP who is the sister-in-law of comedian Charlie Brooker, to consider relaxing what many see as an arcane restriction.
Patrick Foster, Laura Hughes, The Telegraph, 3rd March 2016TV review: Charlie Brooker's 2015 Wipe
Charlie Brooker's end-of-the-year Wipes have become essential viewing. They are the best way of making some kind of sense of the mess the world is in today. And this year's edition was no exception. Except there was a problem. 2015 is probably the bleakest year since Brooker has been doing these shows.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 31st December 201511 absolutely zinger quotes from Charlie Brooker's 2015
Charlie Brooker's 2015 Screen Wipe gave us another darkly funny rundown of the year.
Sarah Deen, Metro, 30th December 2015Radio Times review
Whatever horrors the world has endured over the past 12 months - war, pestilence, terrorism and Piers Morgan's new presenting gig on Good Morning Britain (only kidding, Piers), then we can always be sure of some traditional comforts. One is that Charlie Brooker and friends will extract some comic mileage in his now-traditional end-of-year round-up.
Joined by contributors Doug Stanhope, Morgana Robinson (complete with her extraordinary Russell Brand impersonation) and Diane Morgan as the fabulously vacuous pundit Philomena Cunk, laughter appears guaranteed. Page Three and Cecil the Lion may all have died this year, but smart, sassy satire is alive and well on BBC Two.
Ben Dowell, Radio Times, 23rd December 2015Doug Stanhope: the Holocaust, US politics and #piggate
With a UK tour underway, GQ caught up with acerbic US comedian Doug Stanhope. Famously bleak, he's worked with Charlie Brooker on the BBC and you can catch his specials on Netflix. We wanted to find out what he makes of current stories in US and UK politics, and how he's finding this tour.
Rupert Myers, GQ, 14th October 2015Black Mirror to return on Netflix
US on-demand service Netflix has ordered 12 new episodes of Charlie Brooker's dark comedy drama Black Mirror.
British Comedy Guide, 25th September 2015Charlie Brooker on Cameron and #piggate
"The first question people were asking me was, Did I know anything about it? And the answer is no, absolutely not. I probably wouldn't have bothered writing an episode of a fictional comedy-drama if I'd known."
Leo Benedictus, The Guardian, 21st September 2015A Touch of Cloth dead, but Charlie Brooker wanted more
Charlie Brooker's blink-and-you-miss-it comedy A Touch of Cloth is unlikely to come back for a fourth series, according to lead star John Hannah.
Tom Eames, Digital Spy, 9th September 2015Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror to become a Netflix show
Sources say the US streaming giant has agreed terms to make original episodes of the hit dystopian comedy drama.
Ben Dowell, Radio Times, 7th September 2015