You Have Been Watching... Charlie Brooker

[electrogirl]

Oh did I miss it? Is it worth watching it?

I don't want it to be rubbish, I might cry. I would cry. I cried when I saw Eddie Izzard on Jonno Ross and he wasn't funny. It's like realising the person you really fancy and love actually still does poos.

 

[electrogirl]

I'm still drunk.

 

[strung out]

drunk with love?

 

[DotCommunist]

i love these comments...



just so youtube

see the related comments on Ninja Vs Spartan thread.

I fear for humanity.

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

IMO Charlie Brooker's a genius on a par with Chris Morris and Hard-Fi. This isn't up to his normal standard but I think that's just the format...

The matey guest banter, the fragmented sections, the studio audience et al edges it towards 'Never Mind The Buzzcocks' when all I want to see is Chuck himself, ripping uninterrupted into his targets, stream-of-consciousness undiluted.

 

[electrogirl]

Hard Fi

 

[Griff]

Liked his summing up of The One Show.

 

[Dillinger4]

Did anybody else notice that during the VT about The One Show, the One Show Theme music was repeated in a loop until it sounded full on insane?

I think that loop would be played to me in a the worst circle of hell.

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

Liked his summing up of The One Show.

Totally. Those clips were hilarious...

 

[5t3IIa]

I turned over and there was audience laughter and Jamelia

But the initial reveal of the Taliban versus............the IRA did make me lol.

Then I turned over again.

 

[Dillinger4]

I think I only really carried on watching because of Jamelia's breasts.

 

[Santino]

It was OK.

 

[ska invita]

I turned over and there was audience laughter ...

This was the problem for me - people laughing at his jokes. EVen Charlie was smiling and laughing sometimes.

The thing that makes him great is that he's angry and disgusted - its not a laughing matter! screenwipe/newswipe/ and even nathan b & dead set have some gravitas to them i reckon.

Him sitting on his own in his living room, white glare of the tv on his face sets the tone perfectly - a loner angry with the world.Here he is surrounded by happy smiley people laughing at it all - no room for anger.

It may well be that the angry loner is just a convenient persona that he has arrived on and that works well for him (for example, Woody Allen, it turns out, is a great athelete and not half the neurotic charicature he has made his trademark) - maybe the charlie of this show is the real charlie?

ANyway, the sooner this series is over the better... though i probably will keep watching, though tutting every couple of minutes and shaking my head and moaning that people are laughing again to my other half.

 

[El Jefe]

it was funny watching the amount of leechers increase on Deadliest Warriors the moment the show finished last night.


Oh, and YHBW wasn't very good, doesn't suit Brooker, but wasn't actually awful

 

[Spion]

Oh did I miss it? Is it worth watching it?

Yeah, but half of it's no good.

Good bits - Charlie's selection of godawful TV and his take on it. I was hooting with laughter at some of the One Show stuff and Deadliest Warriors

Bad bits - trying to squeeze that into some sort of HIGNFY/Radio 4 comedy ponce quiz format.

Lose the guests, change the format . . . and you've got Screenwipe.

Part way through I thought if CB reviewed this programme he'd rip it to bits - "Look at that stupid show host grinning awkwardly when the audience laugh"

 

[kabbes]

What the FUCK has happened at Channel 4 that they think that the only way it is possible to present any form of satire or comedy these days is in the format of a panel game or quiz show?

Fuck sake!

 

[8den]

This was the problem for me - people laughing at his jokes. EVen Charlie was smiling and laughing sometimes.

The thing that makes him great is that he's angry and disgusted - its not a laughing matter! screenwipe/newswipe/ and even nathan b & dead set have some gravitas to them i reckon.

Him sitting on his own in his living room, white glare of the tv on his face sets the tone perfectly - a loner angry with the world.Here he is surrounded by happy smiley people laughing at it all - no room for anger.

It may well be that the angry loner is just a convenient persona that he has arrived on and that works well for him (for example, Woody Allen, it turns out, is a great athelete and not half the neurotic charicature he has made his trademark) - maybe the charlie of this show is the real charlie?

ANyway, the sooner this series is over the better... though i probably will keep watching, though tutting every couple of minutes and shaking my head and moaning that people are laughing again to my other half.

I've seen him in public laughing and having friends and everything. The fraud.

 

[Santino]

What the FUCK has happened at Channel 4 that they think that the only way it is possible to present any form of satire or comedy these days is in the format of a panel game or quiz show?

Fuck sake!

So they can tell us what we should be thinking about stuff.

Have you noticed how many 'documentaries' and reality shows now consist of a brief bit of 'action', followed by a talking head immediately telling us what we've JUST seen and what they thought about it?

 

[kabbes]

Yes, I really have noticed that. It enrages me every time I watch the telly.

It has really reached its nadir with Dragon's Den. There is not one moment of action that can happen without a monkeyface Evans voiceover telling us exactly what is happening, even though we are fucking seeing it happen.

 

[Gingerman]

I've seen him in public laughing and having friends and everything. The fraud.

Brooker laughs?????????

 

[5t3IIa]

This was the problem for me - people laughing at his jokes. EVen Charlie was smiling and laughing sometimes.

The thing that makes him great is that he's angry and disgusted - its not a laughing matter! screenwipe/newswipe/ and even nathan b & dead set have some gravitas to them i reckon.

Him sitting on his own in his living room, white glare of the tv on his face sets the tone perfectly - a loner angry with the world.Here he is surrounded by happy smiley people laughing at it all - no room for anger.

It may well be that the angry loner is just a convenient persona that he has arrived on and that works well for him (for example, Woody Allen, it turns out, is a great athelete and not half the neurotic charicature he has made his trademark) - maybe the charlie of this show is the real charlie?

ANyway, the sooner this series is over the better... though i probably will keep watching, though tutting every couple of minutes and shaking my head and moaning that people are laughing again to my other half.

Plus there were bright colours.

 

[YouSir]

Good bits = The bits which were basically Screenwipe.
Bad bits = Pretty much everything else.

A shame, but I'll still watch again if I'm around, Brooker still has something to him even in the wrong format.

 

[Gingerman]

I was mesmerised by Jamelia's breasts ,programs like this depend on the quality of guest,did'nt think her or that Rufus guy were all that tbh.

 

[5t3IIa]

Good bits = The bits which were basically Screenwipe.
Bad bits = Pretty much everything else.

A shame, but I'll still watch again if I'm around, Brooker still has something to him even in the wrong format.

Right on this ^

 

[Dillinger4]

I think I only really carried on watching because of Jamelia's breasts.

I was mesmerised by Jamelia's breasts ,programs like this depend on the quality of guest,did'nt think her or that Rufus guy were all that tbh.

The power of a pair of awesome rocking tits never ceases to amaze me.

 

[The Boy]

Good bits = The bits which were basically Screenwipe.
Bad bits = Pretty much everything else.

^^^ This x 10000000

 

[al]

See- I don't think it was bad as such, it was actually one of the better of those types of programmes that I've seen, it's just that the whole thing was so very wrong...

Let charlie run and play with the audience for a while - it'll probably send him into a spiralling depression of rage, which'll make all his stuff after that even better...

 

[andy2002]

I really enjoyed it - there were bits of it where I was laughing my arse off, esp. the stuff about the One Show and IRA vs Taliban.

And even though Jamelia is young enough to be my daughter... bloody 'eck!

 

[Jeff Robinson]

I really enjoyed it too - not as good as screenwipe of course but never expected it to be. Still plenty of lols though - Richard Herring is always hillarious (trust him to do a show about reclaiming the toothbrush mustache - he's such a cunt ). The reading of the auto cues for the one show cracked me up too. The Taleban vs the IRA sketch was the star of the show though - that's going to go down in Youtube history I reckon.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

The line “Then Jennifer Ellison takes a penny farthing for a spin around the newly opened tuberculosis wing of the National Museum of Infanticide” read out by Richard Herring (with toothbrush moustache) followed by Jamelia saying “After that former Sun editor and cunt Kevin McKenzie sits weeping at a kitchen table, punching himself in the kidneys before snapping out of it and meeting Somerset’s top pastry chef” is 100% comedy win in my book.