Comments on: Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe

By: piqued

piqued — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:51:58 +0000

I beg to differ ma’am

We’re only mid way through his second series at 10.00pm on BBC4, hardly ‘primetime’

Brooker made a fool of himself from the outset, that is why it works

He’s already self deprecating about his relationship with the media

By: the poet laura-eate

the poet laura-eate — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:30:21 +0000

Charlie’ll have a lot of pressure on him to become a caricature of himself – television always kills its golden geese with
a. overexposure
b. forcing them to make ever increasing fools of themselves in the name of ratings chasing.

Unless of course Charlie just plays along until such time as he can expose what is happening to himself in the most searing episode of all and how he is forced to become as much a part of the media machine as anyone else who engages with the media

By: Notassadasjukandluke

Notassadasjukandluke — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:01:32 +0000

Yes, I know that “admiably” is a typo and should be spelt “admirably”.

By: Notassadasjukandluke

Notassadasjukandluke — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:59:23 +0000

…though clearly not as sad as those who spend the wee small hours of the morning finding places to flaunt their illiteracy and obsessively irrational hatreds.

Brooker was spot on again last night, and Aisleyne’s links admiably demonstrated her comedic talents – long live the Ghetto Princess!

By: Luke

Luke — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 04:44:12 +0000

TRASHLEYNE – how sad are her few fans, they are OFF KEY wierdOs who spend their sorryful lifes looking for any tiny mention of that misfit, fake tart!!!

By: Juk

Juk — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 04:37:41 +0000

Can’t stand that cheap whore TRASHLEYNE & how sad is Brooker for making out there mates – she must suck his cock well !!!

By: Napoleon Cockaparte

Napoleon Cockaparte — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:15:16 +0000

Can’t they move your magazine to London, Badger? They did it with mine and they’re all riding the bloody gravy-train now, the bastards. Laughing and slapping one another on the backs with their fancy fucking awards shows full of free booze and loose women. Well I’ll tell you this for fucking free – they won’t be laughing so fucking hard when Al Quieeeda and his boys drop a dirty bomb on their awards show, will they? THEN who’ll have the last laugh? THEN who’ll be sitting pretty up north knowing that ungrateful bunch of back-slapping …

By: jasonspaced

jasonspaced — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:51:40 +0000

I used to live in Bath and have been considering a move back there. All this talk from Badge of a rank digital signal is making me have second thoughts. I can remember how disappointed I was that we didn’t get Channel 5, even though it only showed soft porn at the outset. Or should that be, especially because it only showed soft porn at the outset. I can remember wistfuully reading billings for ‘The Red Shoe Diaries’. Damn the valley!

So Madge – would I have to resort to getting a dish to get proper telly back West?

And Dave – regarding the Spice Girls.

They were insistent that “If you wanna get with me, better make it fast”, rather than any interest in whether you knew yourself or not.

By: Badger Madge

Badger Madge — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:14:33 +0000

Actually Napoleon, we did have Freeview. It was attached to our ‘recording and rewinding live TV’ type thing we had. *sob*

But Bath is notoriously bad for digital signal. It’s because we’re in a bowl you see. So I’m not miserly. I desperately want digital. But Bath is shit. So we had to give our ‘recording’ thing away and cope with just analogue (and no Five either).

It’s cack.

By: Dave Medlo

Dave Medlo — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:13:41 +0000

“…tells people about how they “better know themselves” before they can “get with her”…

Aren’t they lyrics to a Spice Girls song?