Charlie Brooker
#1
Posted 21 September 2008 - 03:20 PM
http://www.guardian..../charliebrooker
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=wiwmYjk9ARA
http://www.tvgohome.com/
Check those links out, then discuss.
YZ has stated a few times that Charlie is one of his major influences, so I just wanted to see what you guys thought.
I recommend him wholeheartedly. Quite frankly the funniest man in print.
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=wiwmYjk9ARA
http://www.tvgohome.com/
Check those links out, then discuss.
YZ has stated a few times that Charlie is one of his major influences, so I just wanted to see what you guys thought.
I recommend him wholeheartedly. Quite frankly the funniest man in print.
"There comes a time in every person's life when they should learn to shut up. It is called 'birth'."
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#4
Posted 21 September 2008 - 03:45 PM
QUOTE (Millitant Pacifist @ Sep 21 2008, 09:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Seconding the recommendation. He writes a couple of Guardian columns a week too, which are always bitter, dark and hilarious. Funny, intelligent misanthropes are all too rare.
One of the links up there are digital recreations of the columns he writes for the Guardian.
This post has been edited by Spann: 21 September 2008 - 03:45 PM
"There comes a time in every person's life when they should learn to shut up. It is called 'birth'."
-The League Against Tedium
-The League Against Tedium
#10
Posted 21 September 2008 - 07:21 PM
I think he's funny, kind of like if Dave Barry hated the world and all its inhabitants.
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#12
Posted 23 September 2008 - 10:42 AM
Please don't mention Clarkson ever again. I'm hoping if I ignore him he will vanish.
Brooker has the most imaginative and visceral ways of describing things. One that has stuck with me is a Big Brother contestant as "with a face like a perineum with tiny black dots drawn on it for eyes".
Brooker has the most imaginative and visceral ways of describing things. One that has stuck with me is a Big Brother contestant as "with a face like a perineum with tiny black dots drawn on it for eyes".
#13
Posted 23 September 2008 - 11:17 AM
Am I the only one in the world who likes Clarkson?
#14
Posted 23 September 2008 - 11:19 AM
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This post has been edited by Dr Lecter: 23 September 2008 - 11:19 AM
#15
Posted 23 September 2008 - 02:41 PM
I like Clarkson as well. Yes, he's pretty right wing and very anti-youth, but he's got a fantasticly blunt delivery I absolutely love.
As for Brooker's best line? He described another Big Brother contestant as looking like a foolish horse, which I liked.
As for Brooker's best line? He described another Big Brother contestant as looking like a foolish horse, which I liked.
"There comes a time in every person's life when they should learn to shut up. It is called 'birth'."
-The League Against Tedium
-The League Against Tedium