Charlie Brooker

Charlie Brooker is unique in his approach to current affairs. He doesn't cheapen issues by trying to be funny about a serious topic; he simply teases out the contradictions and then pours on his own cynicism. After all, he can't be as cynical as the media he's ostensibly reporting on. For all the fun he has at the expense of American broadcasters while slurping pretend tea on his living-room Chesterfield, tonight it will be his mission to uncover truth from British politicians.

Radio Times review

Charlie Brooker is just what we need to cut politicians and pundits down to size after five weeks of campaigning. He's as funny, and spot-on, about TV coverage of the election as he is about the candidates themselves. Where shows like Have I got News for You mock the politicians, Brooker also satirises the good, bad and ugly coverage itself.

Expect disparaging dissection of all the parties, and quite a lot of deadpan exasperation with it. Best of all, he'll have the brilliantly dim Philomena Cunk by his side to really get to the bottom of all this election stuff. Because as Cunk would say, "What is politicians?"

Radio Times review

A great cast - Vincent Franklin from Cucumber, Hugh Skinner (dumb Will in W1A), and Rufus Jones (camp David, also in W1A) do their best in this queasy sitcom about drone pilots.

The bored little group are closeted in a cabin on a bleak airfield, their days characterised by long stretches of yawning boredom punctuated by administering sudden death in the Middle East, and sometimes they get it wrong.

It's a black comedy (there's a very off-colour gag about social services) but it's not black enough and consequently not funny enough. It's the kind of thing Charlie Brooker would do ruthlessly well, yet writer Guy Jenkin (Ballot Monkeys and Drop the Dead Donkey) lets it drift into farce.

Charlie Brooker: Farage has been giving him problems

"Nigel Farage is like a flipping, slightly pissed-up sort of brother-in-law or something," according to Charlie Brooker, who'll be presenting his customary Election Wipe this evening on BBC Two, ahead of tomorrow's turnout for what is predicted to be the closest election in years.

Charlie Brooker on the leaders' debates

What sort of person can't decide who to vote for, but can rate how much they like whatever they're hearing out of five, and wants to sit there tapping a button accordingly?

Charlie Brooker: why tug our forelocks to Richard III?

For somebody who did less for Britain than, say, Olly Murs, we're making a dreadful fuss of our late monarch.

Charlie Brooker's unnerving series returns for a feature-length Christmas special on Tuesday, starring Jon Hamm. But you can watch all previous episodes, which exhibit a compelling sense of unease about the modern world.

Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe, Series 3 review

Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe may just be the smoothest comedy programme on television. It is also one of the bleakest satirical programmes I have ever seen, but I am well and truly addicted.

Nathan Barley is 10

Looking back at Charlie Brooker's debut TV series.