Charlie Brooker on... The bullying of Rebecca Black
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- 10 O'Clock Live - A weekly, live comedy and current affairs show hosted by David Mitchell, Jimmy Carr, Charlie Brooker and Lauren Laverne.
10:00pm | 24th March | Channel 4
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Had to upload a first video sometime, so why not one featuring another great rant by Charlie Brooker ...
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Dear Imbeciles,
Thanks to your hard work, Rebecca Black, who you dismissed as a hopeless wannabe, is now a bona fide megastar. Look, here she is on a brilliant edition of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno - just like you'll never be.
See, she's famous, perhaps you'd like a picture of that image to hang on your wall, so you can look at it every morning before going to work in the shitty mega-chain burger outfit you'll be trapped in forever; selling Happy Meals with Rebecca Black's face on, and as you pass these to Customers - who, accurately, look at you like you're nothing - you'll hear Rebecca Black's song looping on the in-store muzak system while you slave away behind the counter five days a week from Monday through to Friday, Friday, you gotta get down on Friday, cos that's the day you mop the fucking floor.
Audience laughing to people calling Black a “whore” is genuinely disturbing
I'd say it's just more from the absurdity of it
I think its just charlie brooker's delivery of it, as well as the absurdity. I laughed when he said it ngl
It's amusing because it's ludicrously disproportionate and completely unrelated to what she did
God the internet was so young then. Cancel Culture would have sounded more like homicide against aristocrats.
Sounded like a punchline. More like they were conditioned to laugh before understanding what was said.
It's trolls like the ones who bullied Black which gave the inspiration for Brooker in his latest Black Mirror episode I'm guessing.
yup
David Lister Actually, major inspiration was when the trolls targeted him for a column he had written.
Can you elaborate Varun? What's the story there, never heard of this
Ladi Smith he said something about George Bush, who was president at the time, that many Americans misinterpreted and henceforth sent death threats
Anyone who worries about a 13 year old singing a pop song on youtube obviously has a sane and happy life to keep them busy.
It was always silly to hate on Rebecca for Friday, because she didn't write the song, she didn't direct the video, she didn't personally pay for any of it, and she wasn't the one responsible for autotuning it to high heaven. If anything, she was one of the last people to be blaming for the song and video, not least because SHE WAS ONLY 13.
It's even stupider that even now, I see people hating on Rebecca, and posting abusive and hurtful comments on her personal youtube videos, all because of this one song. If we all took something you created or took part in when you were 13 and judged you for it for the rest of your life, it'd be terrible. Just look at anything at all with your name or image on it from when you were 13 or 14. Is it awful? Is it embarrassing? Do you want to throw it into the nearest fire? Almost definitely yes. But do you want to fling yourself into the nearest fire after seeing it? Hopefully no, because everyone does stupid stuff when they're 13. Every. Single. Person. Rebecca just got unlucky and had hers put on the internet.
SciFiFangirlsFTW Well at least we didn't post these creations we made when are 14 years old in the internet. And looking at the stuff she makes now is bland and didn't even evolved. The awful things we made when we were 13 maybe was posted for the people to compare us now to the us in the past to show how much better we became. Sometimes we remake them to show what these creations would have turn out at full potential.
night mare ARK music posted the video without Rebecca or her mother's permission... it was meant to be a private thing to be shown to friends and family. Which makes it even less her fault.
Well said
Yes the song is shit but saying someone needs to die because of it is a bit much.
I agree, just too far. Her parents are are the ones to blame for assisting to her delusionality.
+TheHappy_P0tat0 yes.... patrice wilson of course. may he burn for all eternity
Exactly it is shit but the people who send death threats are lonely fat nerds who probably get bullied themselves
+TheHappy_P0tat0
No it is entirely balanced. Have you heard the song? It causes actual harm to people. She is a talentless spoiled brat. I am happy she is famous now. Fame is an awful, awful thing and I hope it ruins her life.
JandHfilms I wasn't aware animals could type and use the internet!
You must be a special breed.
Yes Brooker. You fucking nailed it!!!
Charlie Brooker for Prime Minister. I'm not gay, but hey, i am capable of a bit of man-love...
Rebecca Black is actually a millionaire now, and she only has the complaining masses to thank. They forgot that any publicity is good publicity.
+Yimello The complaining masses? the vast, vast majority of the people that watched her video and caused her to get wealthy simply had a bit of a chuckle. the mad, bullying crowd are quite a small minority.
+night mare I think she's actually gotten better. I say this as my own opinion, of course.
I don't like Black's music, but this is spot on.
Well, the author doesn't like it as well
"I don't like Black's music" redundant words if ever I heard them
I really hope someone has shown this to rebecca black
This is more of an insult to the hollywood music industry really. Rebecca Black was just a puppet who got dragged into the middle of it.
I feel he wrote Black Mirror S3E6 with this theme in mind
Sam Bartle lol yeah
Sam Bartle he even mention she sounded like bees
#deathto
Jake it only works if it is pointed to anybody
manozr #deathto donald trump
Hillary clinton
I quite fancy a fried egg this weekend. I liked the fried egg song.
I mean yeah I agree with all that, just a side note: why do people like to mock people who work at fast food chains? Why is it shameful work? They're not doing anything wrong, they're usually nice and you know, have enough of their own problems without being ridiculed. I've never understood this. AND YES I realize he wasn't targeting them specifically, but using fast food work as a degrading condition is very common, which I just find unfair.
Ikr plus the vast majority of jobs are minimum wage. Why does fast food work get spoken about like you supposedly earn less than most other forms of work?
@@Fireglo Because fast food isn't beneficial in any way, it's poisonous shite with fuck all nutritional content. It's unskilled, low-paid work that does fuck all to improve or maintain society. McDonalds'/BK/KFC staff may as well be dead!
@@sierraromeoromeo2444 dude did your wife leave you for a fast food worker or something? Why so hostile?
@@Fireglo Dickhead, are you allergic to facts or something? Why so ignorant?
@@sierraromeoromeo2444 You're not beneficial to society in anyway.
The anonymity of the internet, it baffles me what people get out of harassing a complete stranger because I can't imagine what satisfaction you would get. If I did that I'd just feel like a useless lump of dry crusty spunk and I don't think I'd like to feel that way.
Now, THAT'S what I call a gentleman...standing up for a young lady's honor.
Absolutely fucking awesome. Take a bow son.
She's a 13-year-old. Leave her alone, jerks.
Charlie Brooker is my spirit animal
Jake don't flatter yourself
I think you slightly misunderstand the point of the monologue. It was to highlight the personal, direct and mass 'bullying' of Rebecca, it wasn't to just say that any 'criticism' of her is wrong.
could have made the show with just Charlie Brooker and David Mitchell, would have been far better.
Who gives a shit if it's the worst song ever recorded. Don't listen to it if you don't like it. The point is that you shouldn't attack her just because of the fact. If she runs you over in her car deliberately then you can attack her because then she's actually done something that is evil. Why don't people have avfunctioning sense of fucking proportion.
Amusing but there's no consistency to this message. It's not okay to belittle her, but it's okay to belittle everyone else? She's a celebrity and you'll never be, but her singing has no merit? So what are we to take from this? That success in and of itself is a virtue and shouldn't be questioned? I would agree that it's wrong to attack someone, especially a kid, unprovoked, but to respond by attacking Bieber and the people who did the 'bullying' only undermines the point being made.
This kind of stuff is where Black Mirror came from.
not the bees!
Can't believe I'm having to point this out but obviously the audience laugh at commenters calling Black a whore because of the ridiculousness and disproportionate vitriol of the insult, not because they find it an amusing or apposite description; issue those who bought tickets to see such figures as Brooker and Mitchell with some credit. Also, for what it's worth, Brooker is demonstrably hypocritical in his dealings with the subject of bullying here, as he has been time and again throughout his television oeuvre of over a decade, but I personally still idolise him more than I do any other public figure; his work has changed my entire view on the media and on life in general, and we all have our foibles
Proof that you can come up with a bullshit explanation for everything.
He's a comedian guys, relax.
+BigBrother1993 Thank fucking god SOMEONE around here gets satirization.
*Brendan gives BigBrother1993 a virtual hug.
+BigBrother1993 I don't get what you're trying to say here?
As if what he said holds any less merit because he's a comedian?
Are you saying that it is perfectly fine to harass a little girl to tears millions of times over because you don't like her pop song? Because Charlie was just joking when he said it wasn't?
Working on McDonald's is a perfectly honourable means of making a living. I pity the everyday McDonald's worker who Charlie slandered in this video
How did he slander them? It’s a shit job, like most jobs are, and everyone knows it.
Most people do these jobs while studying and go on to better jobs.
He’s saying that a shit job is the best these idiots can hope for, and it is all they will ever do.
I mean he wasn’t being subtle about it, so I don’t understand how so many people are getting the wrong end of the stick.
@@johnodonnell1506 how would he know if its a shit job or not? He's never worn the uniform.
So he complains about people bullying her and then streotypes and looks down upon fast food workers who are just trying to make a living.
Charlie brooker is a legend
LLOLLLLLL OMG, this man is mad arms at the endahahah
mop the fuckn floor!
Funny you should mention wasps and bullying in the same sentence, Charlie. I think I've got an idea...
We absolutely need more bullying of Piers Morgan BD
@JustAnotherPassenger lol yeah. i think if she gets a lot of money for her song, then that $2000 was a fucking good investment
Fucking love this man x
Dear Lord. I love you, Charlie Brooker. Saying that yeah the song is bad, but how she's been treated is pathetic and sick. Hurrah! Sanity!
@TheRealDerfMan WTF? Accountability? How does a 13yr old girl having a bit of fun demand accountability. Is she constantly pestering you? Did she force you to listen to or watch her video? Has a young girl insulted and offended you so badly?. You're still not getting the difference between criticism and bullying are you? I don't object to criticism, I object to bullying, and to those who attempt to justify it as somehow being deserved, all because of a fucking silly song. Grow up man.
Pretty closed-minded of you to think all those hateful comments were JUST bullying. There is nothing wrong with someone like me who's looking for accountability. AGAIN, if someone wants to put out shit, they should be able to take criticism. I think she's old enough to realize what she was doing. Then again, maybe not. How old do you have to be until you start taking responsibility for your actions? Her parents and whoever wrote the song should take some responsibility, but they clearly aren't.
@JustAnotherPassenger WTF is wrong with you? Seriously... if Charlie Brooker hadn't taken that stance, would you be posting your silly replies? I doubt it.
Do you have something against freedom of speech? If someone wants the freedom to create horrible art, others should have the freedom to criticize that horrible art. If people's reaction to watching "Fried-Eggs" is nasty, I see it as a good sign.
"When did mediocrity and banality become a good image for your children?" ~ Bill Hicks
@effystonem7 Right, so just to clarify; you think that it's not only acceptable, but actually deserved, that thousands of people should abuse and bully a 13 year old girl - who hurt absolutely nobody - saying she should go cut herself and die? And YOU'VE lost faith in humanity? You're an idiot.
Katy Perry's "Last Friday Night" got revenge against those haters.
That friday song has just as much content as that whip your hair song.
But I guess that talentless girl had richer parents ...
the crowd reminds me of the black mirror episode with waldo. they laugh about everything he says..
@JustAnotherPassenger well said, this comedian is justifying bullies ????" Grown Ass Parents" Perhaps just a lot of jealousy over parents doing what they always do, helping out their kids. Yet what type of parents do all these bullies have ??? Why don't the parents take their kids computers away ????? I see no complaining over songs such as Eminem- Cold Wind Blows
@Andrew19ao
I agree Andrew, there are plenty of worse songs on Utube, yet they get high likes by teens such as this one
Eminem- Cold Wind Blows yet i hear no complaints from the media about those. It has far worse lyrics. I think most of the hatred comes from Jealousy.
@effystonem7 So bullying is justified because there are bullies? Pehaps you'd also like to justify rape because there are rapists? You're still an idiot.
It's the difference between criticism and bullying. Terrible song - yes, annoying voice - yes, but she's just a 13 year old girl for goodness sake.
even though i never wrote a negative comment on anything posted by or on behalf of rebecca black (she's a fuckin' kid for crying out loud) and i don't work at a fast food restauraunt, i still felt as if he was talkin' directly to me l mao... well done...
Best thing about this is that Rebecca Black is now an actual popstar, and she's legitimately talented. She's even started producing hyperpop in the style of the late and insuperable SOPHIE
@harlinmaee To me it's shows that there is no humanity. That teens are not being taught that others can be harmed by words and that cyberbullying is not on.
@JustAnotherPassenger I think the point he was getting at is if there is a building full of child rapist you don't send your kid in wearing a rape me sign.
I didn't realise she only paid $2000 bucks for that. That's an investment that paid for itself pretty fucking well.
I thought more people had senses of humor. Sure the video's bad, but you're supposed to laugh at it, not get mad and burn the girl at the stake.
Cool Charlie, love the anti bullying but don't piss on people who are forced to flip burgers for less than the minimum wage.
Nobody is really forced to do so... You can get another cleaning job if you work for it!
Mr Postboxface why not? it's fun
Reading the T&Cs of a contract, for a job you know full well what involves, and agreeing to work for a set hourly rate? That's not being forced, that's free will. Most poeple call that "applying for a job"...
Less than minimum wage? That's literally illegal.
Yes it all very well to call out bullies but the implication at the end being "See? She's famous! You should be jealous!" So what? Can't make fun of famous people? Seems like a misstep from "Don't bully a kid whose just trying to make a fun video you pricks."
I’m a big fan of Brooker, but this is pretty badly written comedy.
Reading through the comments, the only reasonable argument I see for Brooker is that it's ok for him to mock people if he isn't doing it directly and he isn't using blatantly offensive language. I'm not so sure I'd really buy that argument personally, though.
I can respond to an anonymous fellow internet user calling me a whore, as an equal.
Brooker, obviously isnt my equal. He is a celebrity, which, like he says, I will never be. His comments are also endorsed by a laughing audience and mainstream television.
He calls all those working in a low-end job ‘nothing’ and is whooped and cheered by his fans for saying so.
He might not use a bland and crass slur, but by using more craft and wit, I would say that makes his comments even more cutting.
That audience, though…with their lack of empathy, humaneness or conscience. Social media is making sociopaths out of everyone.
Jealousy is a cancer. I hope Rebecca is doing well.
that laughing is awfully distracting. The volume could be set to 20%.
The problem is that she is famous. She has no reason to be. Also when did Charlie Brooker ever do a fucking days work?
What the fuck is that laugh track. Who laughs like "HAHAHA" for two seconds and then us dead silent straight away?
Okay...its not my type of song but I don't see it as much worse than the popular stuff.....and at least she did something which is rather more than most of her detractors.
Cool except for slating people working in burger chains. Better to at least take a dig at people who can afford a bit of ribbing, not people who are seriously exploited.
I hated the audience's inappropriate laughing.
Perfect present to all those nasties out there XD
why am I watching this in 2020...it's almost 2021
It's the internet, everybody gets death threats. The guy who made a youtube parody video of this got death threats. I'm guessing people who made a big fuss about this got death threats. Online "death threats" have a minuscule chance of actually being committed. To jump up and shriek "DEATH THREATS, I FEAR FOR MY LIFE!!!" every time something like this happens...well you might aswell never leave the house, out of fear from being hit by a car, because "accidents happen" ...
The complaint here was focused on verbal abuse rather than the actual threat of death. Do remember, she was thirteen at the time, thirteen year olds have weird priorities which include caring about whether or not a disembodied hive mind of people care about them or not.
Best rant i have ever heard.
he has much better rants
yeah ur right, he has more in depth rants but for a flat out monologue this scores high
eermm, if you say so, 10 o'clock live was not his finest moment, even he would admit that
examples.....
examples of him in better tv shows...gameswipe, weekly wipe, news wipe, even you have been watching was better than this rubbish. Shows he has produced....dead set and black mirror
fighting bullying with bullying? bit harsh on the burger chain workers...
Ed Douglas I agree with you, but sometimes I guess that's the only way you can get the message through to people to be honest.
But yes, you are right. There's this kind of backward, anti/bullying in comedy though.
Shit dude I hate rebecka black. But man this guy is right.
Regardless of how hateful the comments got, Charlie has said worse things about better people.
That's why we love him.
Gabiotta example?
Steph S Of the worse things or better people?
Gabiotta what has he said that's worse?
Really? You don't think Brooker has more bite and finely honed vitriol in his arsenal than some kid in a Rebecca Black comment section?
Gabiotta he's said many things but when I read worse I was thinking of genuine cruelty
That was quite possibly one of the most brutal Brooker rants
against bullying but also against shitty music.
Is it 'cause she is Rebecca Black?
LAnonHubbard You are awesome.
Wonder if there are any subtle classist undertones here...
'look at you like you are nothing' Shows what Brooker thinks of people who work in MacDonalds. Just saying. BBC snobbery right there.
Rebecca Black song is like eye and ear rape
I don't think this was fair to restaurant workers though.
I'm actually inclined to agree. As unemployable scum I have much respect for anyone who's in gainful employment. Fast food workers do tough work for minimal benefit and cop a low social status to boot, which is a shame.
Seemed more like a shot at the people bullying her that will likely never amount to anything, than a shot to all fast food workers in general.
It's fairly obviously not a comment directed at people simply doing the work to get by... There was nothing in the barrage of insults saying "fuck people who work at McDonalds".
I have blonde hair, it doesn't mean it upsets me when somebody mocks Justin Bieber and a recent rendition of his haircut.
Why are you watching this. It's not for you. This is the wrong show for you.
Steph S You reckon? Challenging received wisdom, looking a bit more carefully at a throwaway comment and its implications... I'd say that's perfectly in keeping with this show.
ending is fucking brilliant :D
Funny how he complains about bullying while at the same time shows us that he, a well off tv celeb, thinks that people who have to mop floors for a living are just worthless "nothing".
I'm confused, broker bullies the girl then implies everyone bullying her is a loser?
He never bullied her at any point, he admitted she has a shit voice is all.
the thing that's most hilarious about this is that the majority of the people complaining about her shitty lyrics are the same people buying (or torrenting) Black Eyed Peas and Lil Wayne
@dopingbjarne I agree. If there are 10 million bullies on social networking sites harming 40 percent of teenagers Rebecca Black would make a good target for bullies to go to. She is a very good looking young teen which would make her a good target for jealousy. Plus a lot of resentment because her mum did something for her. Of all those bullies they would be egging many others on to help them out in their hate. "Shallow, rich whores " to me that speaks of jealousy and hence the hatred.
@harlinmaee I disagree with ten millions bullies online harming 40 percent of teenagers in USA it's starting to become a very learned behaviour that is increasing and not being stamped out. No one wants to get bullied or asks for it, yet what your trying to do is justify bullying which is entirely wrong. Most of us as parents install good values in our children and prevent them bullying others. This isn't happening in USA as you can see by that comedian he seems to be encouraging it to.
@harlinmaee No they don't. Teens need to learn, to talk to others how they would talk to them face to face.
What teens lack is empathy, that is the inability to feel the pain in others, that their words can hurt.
There are thousands of teens online that have videos of them singing. With 10 million bullies harming 40 percent of teens on social networking sites another good looking teen would attract all the bullies because places such as Utube would make them thrive.
@TheRealDerfMan Uh, no I am capable of my own opinions, I posted this because it's funny and it echo's my own thoughts on the matter.
Nothing I've said shows I'm against freedom of speech, I refer you to an earlier comment of mine beginning "It's the difference between criticism and bullying...".
If you think hateful bullying of a young girl is justifed as 'freedom of speech' or it's just simple criticism, then I would suggest WTF is wrong with you?
This aged like fine wine
i hear where you are about this: this was a majorly over-trolled harsh. how about "Burberry Blue Eyes"? i keep being left with the feeling that what's going in is that the Rebecca Blacks of the scene just don't come from this world and just them being here causes venomy backlashes on behalf of artists of real talent that won't get a break because someone's paying for things like that. Where's the line? i can't call it. i just turned the damn radio off *shrug*
Charlie Brooker tackles bullies by making any honest person who works in a chain restaurant/as a cleaner feel like shit just for existing.
Thanks Charlie, everything ok up in that fucking ivory tower of yours?!!
I enjoy his rants but he's no innocent himself
The internet: where everyone gathers to get offended by the oddly specific and mostly unnecessary things of all time.
Dibby D I think you are confusing being offended with pointing out hypocrisy.
+illiterate thug and your confusing hypocrisy with satire.
gnomorian No I'm not.
And how exactly is it 'satire' then?
@jewellia7777 You could say the money she earns is compensation as many of the teens that have been harming her, could have been taken to court and fined.
"She sounds like a wasp trapped inside a polystyrene cup, rasping the words..."
"Also, bullying people is wrong! It's not funny! I can do it because I'm a professional troll, but for everyone else it's heinous!"
I remember when Charlie Brooker made a chilling documentary about the guilt of 24 hour rolling-media in encouraging mass-shootings, and his beautifully sweet and moving tribute to Oliver Postgate. 10'o'Clock Live was one of the worst circle-jerking egofests masquerading as a topical comedy show that that I've not watched in a long, long time. Brooker can do so, so much better than this stunted, right-on tedium.
he wasnt telling her to kill herself or threatening her he gave his opinion how is that bullying he made light if it he wasnt being harsh
I feel like there's somewhat of a difference between exaggerating the objectively poor quality of a song for laughs, and directly telling someone on Twitter that they should kill themselves.
who is rebecca black?
lol my play list just diverted into noughties indie without my permission
"oh she's the girl with the golden touch: she's got enough she's got too much! but you'll know she wouldn't mind...oh you can have it all if ya want it, you can have it all if it matters so much! coz Aaaalllll theeeyyyy knooooow is how to put you down: when you're there they're your freinds but then when you're not around..." that's the thing about pop insie: they couldn't be bothered to brush their hair, they're off key and a bit weird but they f*cking meant it
why especially Jason Manford?
Ruth Jones mentions it in an episode of WIlty
Wasn't he doing exactly the same thing to a 17 year old Bieber? I'm confused
Woah.. This is the dude who directs Black Mirror. Could make for an interesting episode.
I'm worried, because I will be unable to get a job mopping the floor on Friday in 2025. A bot will do it.
As much as I agree with what he's saying, I very much the Rebecca black trolls watch 10 o'clock live
I kinda of wish I'd watch this show, but I always found Lauren Laverne so annoying that she outweighed the talent of the rest.
@PhazonElitist you dont understand the hurt you are causing when you say things like that and probably don't care either
it's 2023 today
@pooway Wow, my very first troll comment!, thanks! You honour me with your idiocy.