Charlie Brooker

A welcome return for the panel show hosted by Charlie Brooker that looks for the worst in everything and spins it into comedy gold. For example - your ideas, please, for the most appalling concept album? I'll leave you to insert your own ideas there and introduce the panellists: reliable Lee Mack; rising Scottish comic Susan Calman (a News Quiz regular); and the "who he?", Daniel Maier (answer: a writer on Harry Hill's TV Burp, so no slouch when it comes to gags).

You'll laugh your socks off - and future episodes are also worth catching, with guests including "the Legend" Barry Cryer, Graham Linehan (Father Ted) and Isy Suttie, doleful Dobby from Peep Show.

As many listening to this reversal-of-convention panel game will loathe chairman Charlie Brooker as love his iconoclasm. Not every show is going to meet with universal approval. Yet radio does so much comedy that people tend to forget Alan Partridge was born here and Whose Line Is It Anyway? blazed a trail all the way to the USA.

Charlie Brooker: Not excited by the Olympics?

British people don't appear to care about the Games, so it's handy there are the Olympic sponsors to help us get into the spirit of things.

Charlie Brooker: Last week, I became a parent

Call me dense or cold or both, but I wasn't anticipating the wave of euphoria I'm experiencing now that I've become a father.

Charlie Brooker & Konnie Huq become parents

Charlie Brooker is celebrating after his wife Konnie Huq gave birth to a baby boy.
The couple welcomed little Covey at around 10pm last night at a London hospital.

Charlie Brooker: Future of the NHS? Cough up, fleshbags

Introducing competition to the health service will, so the theory goes, improve it. And it doubtless would, if businesses behaved like selfless nuns.

Charlie Higson interview

The Fast Show star Charlie Higson talks about why he wants to scar children for life with his books, his old career as a punk rocker and how Charlie Brooker got him into running.

Black Mirror: the complete first series, DVD review

Ed Cumming reviews Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror trilogy, which explores the impact of new media and technology on our lives.

Charlie Brooker neurotic over baby

Charlie Brooker has been stressing over his wife Konnie Huq's pregnancy.

Charlie Brooker interview

Ahead of the release of Black Mirror on DVD, we spoke to writer Charlie Brooker about his work on the series, future episodes, and what he's up to next...