Sorry, No HD this week. Charlie Brooker and guests cast their collective eyes over all that the telly, cinema, news and computer games have to offer, in order to wring a little laughter from a hilariously troubled world.
To be fair the BBC taking the piss out of Russell Brand is like Hitler taking the piss out of a Nazi soldiers. They're the worst side of the same shit.
I dont mean to be so offtopic but does someone know a trick to get back into an instagram account..? I stupidly lost my account password. I appreciate any tricks you can offer me.
Watching Screenwipe and Newswipe (from Australia) in the late 2000s actually piqued my interest in living in the UK. I've now been living here in London for four years and I love it. Cheers, Charlie!
+LordHealey Ha, seriously? I'm Australian too, and my love of Britcoms (particularly Charlie Brooker and David Mitchell's stuff) has often made me think that I'd like to go to the UK. Not sure if I'd want to live there, but... I certainly feel a good deal of affinity to my ancestral home. So you've found it to be a worthwhile move? Nothing you miss too much about Australia, or dislike too much about London?
the "how do you get it so that I'm a Rally driver" scene in Eastenders was brilliant for one single reason: Phil Mitchell managed to do the impossible by not only booting up a PS2 without pressing any buttons on the front, but also getting it to load a full game in 2 seconds flat!
It's a shame there's little more than the annual wipe. I do understand that cranking it out over a longer term would be very difficult, and Charlie's obviously better served (as are we, ultimately) by making shows like Black Mirror.
Me too. I think he should come across the pond and take Jon Stewart's place when he retires from The Daily Show this year. Cover the ridiculousness the world over and here. We need someone to help us laugh through the elections come up over here. Seriously.
Time marches on, and few people seem to know of Charlie Brooker's particular style of review skills. Two years before your comment, the R.B. segment was described as a "parody". It is not. Yours is more accurate, and yes, bang on. But in truth, it is a homage, not merely an impression - though Morgana Robinson clearly has a gift for mimicry. (Eagle-eyed viewers will note the portrait photo of Russell in shot behind Charlie in the yearly Wipe. I understand that they are pals.)
Brooker's humour really shines during the political bits. The bit where he compared Osborne to Miliband was one of the few moments I actually laughed out loud at... (Although I did quite enjoy the Brand impersonation, Morgana Robinson as RB was incredibly accurate and funny)
ooh i practiced this. it was a girl version of "don't stand so close to me" by The Police. you know if i could be bothered to lose weight i'd probably be foxy. at the minute i'm like: "Are we going to talk about our relationship? i was going to have a steamy hot quarter pounder with cheese. mmm cheese. sorry darling?"
Monster Energy Ultra which is to say sugar free. i would have had the Relentless but for the sugar anyway i'm always suspicious drinking "monster" or "badman juice" or "psycho squeeze" you know? is it going to make me bonkers or will the bonkers turn up somewhere dreadfully unlikely like victoria's secret? dinnae ken
I liked the bit where they put Belle & Sebastian in the music bed during the link about British politics so I could enjoy Belle & Sebastian and not have to listen about British politics.
"rahhsii" which is Amen Ra in Si. si for simony. you know what i mean like a guitar riff that cures your soul God has more humour downworld. it's also a lit more obvious. it's so obvious hardly anyone remarks upon it. Russel's ragga-do do do push pineapple shake the-trousers:any good our kiiid?
Scintillating Shit-O-Vision. Saying the actor's name instead of the character's is one of those little bits you vamp yourself out of on stage, but I guess the Eastenders regulars are so used to being able to keep rolling while they fix it or cut and go again that they're not 'match fit', theatre-wise.
Eastenders? I missed all of this, being abroad. However, anyone who A) watches and then B) makes fun of The Eastenders, a programme I watched once and once only, has no right to act superior to its scriptwriters and production. Pot/kettle here. The rest was quite good, with a few fine moments and a few duds; from the few episodes i've seen, C.B. was good at the yearly stuff, but the weekly shows are too limiting, and fairly dross.
Love Weekly Wipe, but instead of this bad Russell Brand imitation by a bad feminist comedian, can you bring back Doug Stanhope, or at least something funnier. Zeb, if that's her name and if I'm not mistaken, really puts me to sleep.
