I could listen to Charlie Brooker just describing people, and nothing else, for the rest of my days and be entirely happy. Good god, the man has a gift.
Oooh snap, you sure told it to me straight up on a whole wheat bun with a slice of salami. But for real, I never thought of "thinkin" for myself because that would first require me to think that thought, which as you have so vehemently pointed out is not something I was previously capable of. I think I will sit down, have a large glass of instant decaffeinated coffee (Sanka of course), and ponder your most valuable recommendations on how one should conduct one's life.
Look at you coming back with a side of sarsaparilla.“[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business." - A.A. Milne
That bloke at the end has it spot on. Why watch Brooker's witty and thought provoking observations on modern media when we could be watching him spinning a roulette wheel for the benefit of desperate lowlifes in a graveyard slot?
Unintentional mild hilarity is that one of the players' names scrolling down the right is "nathan". I can almost picture Barley in his 'chic' converted warehouse flat in Westbourne Grove in the wee hours, after the society girl he brought home for the evening threw up on his retro Masters Of The Universe duvet and passed out...
Last Of The Summer Wine was a beautiful show. And its beauty only improves with age. It captured a world forever lost now. Maybe it never really existed entirely how the show depicted it, but what it does depict is certainly a thing of the past which will never again be.
What I like about pretty much all of Brooker's shows is that they're ultimately just creative ways of encouraging humanity to accept their imperfections and enjoy life instead of allowing mindless TV execs and tech companies to make them feel like they're in some stupid competition to become the best human being imaginable in whatever category they can think of; even all of the doomsayer shit, regardless of who is making it, is basically turning its viewers into competitors in a competition to see who can be the best at being scared shitless. This is also why in the rare situations where Charlie or one of his mates does compliment a show (and not in a comedically ironic way) it tends to be a show that's written incredibly well and/or has a certain degree of realism to it. Or in the case of something like Last of the Summer Wine, aligns with the goal of accepting imperfections and generally just enjoying life.
There was actually a fantastic sapphire and steel audio series from a company called big finish , sadly I available now but the second one in the series is truly chilling.
He couldn't be more right about (almost) everything he says. The man should be listened to by the networks, since everything he says about the garbage on TV these days is dead on! I don't live in the UK, but I do live in the US, which is much much worse when it comes to garbage television & ruining everything on it. I mean...we created the fucking Kardashians (very similar in physical appearance & disgusting-ness to the Cardassians, as well)....nobody should ever forgive whoever did that atrocity. We are continually rewarding idiots & the rich assholes who waste money frivolously on shit just because it's shiny or expensive, not because it's even unique or looks good. 99.9% of the time I've ever seen something ridiculously expensive, it was the most boring, ugly & non-unique thing ever. Then take into account these douchebags don't care about the fact the materials and labor cost almost nothing to the manufacturer, and if you think you're paying for "quality", you're mistaken. Simply put, you're paying for the price tag. That's the only thing that makes you think it's worth that & you should buy it. Mindless fucks. Lets stop giving these fucktards TV shows & allowing them to get richer & waste money on useless shit when there are fucking STARVING people and people who can't afford a place to live or basic necessities, it's just fucked. You don't reward bad behavior, and there's too many reasons to list why.
Oh and I forgot to mention the best part, David fucking Firth was a part of making this wonderful show. That is beyond awesome. Don't know of any other shows that can boast such a thing. David Firth rules.
Ah come on, loads of us liked Linkin Park for a few years and thought it made us better than all those regular people listening to the stuff on Smash Hits but the jokes he made were fair enough really.
How can that bloke at the end call Charlie Broker talentless? I'd love to see him come up with something as brilliant as Black Mirror.... I'd be surprised if he could write his own address!!
Oh yeah, I remember Saphire and Steel! in Australia they showed all the Doctor Whos when I was little, when they finished with that we'd watch Saphire and Steel with Dad!
I watched CrimeWatch for the first time when I was 14. There was a reconstruction of a Woman opening the door in the morning and getting bent over and stabbed in the back. Not traumatising at all.
It's a little like a child bringing you flowers it's just picked from your own garden. The flowers (jokes) are half dead and you've seen them all before a thousand times. It's not particularly well arranged, and you've lost something you've worked for. But it's sweet and harmless, and still nice to look at from time to time.
Well his point is that they are marketed as subversive, but clearly cannot actually subversive as they are/ were (?) signed to a major label, had very expensive videos and were MTV darlings. I think that he made a good point that would be hard pushed to dispute.
Im assuming that the roulette bloke at the end has had his sense of irony surgically removed along with what mediocre amount of talent he may have had.
Maybe but remember despite how shit his channel is the hosts basically have normal 8 hour shifts which they have to fill with anything. When one of the runners mentioned he'd been indirectly mocked he probably thought "thank Christ, that'll kill 15 minutes". I remember turning on one of those channels at 4am (yeah), a crew member fell over and the host started riffing on their history of minor accidents - slips in the shower, torn muscles, broken arms etc. for about half an hour. That guy might be a tit but he is also in the televisual equivalent of hell.
Anthea Turner - Sees pickled onions: "Who leaves jam jars on a table". Did she think the giant white lumps in vinegar were mold or something? Who did she screw to get that job? O_o
I think the guy at the end was in the first ever episode, when he takes the piss out of phone in shows, and there's some woman there talking about joining the army, so my guess is someone on the show found out and they decided to try and get one over on him, failing miserably of course
And a lot of it are things people don't think about because they have no reason to. I can use a car, but have only the vaguest idea of how they're made, similarly, you can enjoy tv-series without thinking how it's made. It only becomes a problem when tv claims to report on reality, and people accept it without scrutiny.
Only as an adult I've realised how unique my experience growing up was; my parents and a lot of their friends worked in the entertainment/advertising industry, so I've been aware of how tv was made and edited and how it all worked. I showed this how to my mom, and she said; "It's an okay show, but isn't everything he says totally obvious and what everyone should know anyway by using their common sense." Which I kinda agree, but I guess most people don't really think much about it.
I could listen to Charlie Brooker just describing people, and nothing else, for the rest of my days and be entirely happy. Good god, the man has a gift.
how about doing some thinkin on your own?
Oooh snap, you sure told it to me straight up on a whole wheat bun with a slice of salami. But for real, I never thought of "thinkin" for myself because that would first require me to think that thought, which as you have so vehemently pointed out is not something I was previously capable of. I think I will sit down, have a large glass of instant decaffeinated coffee (Sanka of course), and ponder your most valuable recommendations on how one should conduct one's life.
did my 8 words did all that to u?
Look at you coming back with a side of sarsaparilla.“[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business." - A.A. Milne
u r scary....
That bloke at the end has it spot on. Why watch Brooker's witty and thought provoking observations on modern media when we could be watching him spinning a roulette wheel for the benefit of desperate lowlifes in a graveyard slot?
ahah i was thinking exactly the same. to be honest the offended idiot really made me laugh.
Reality spot on xD
Unintentional mild hilarity is that one of the players' names scrolling down the right is "nathan". I can almost picture Barley in his 'chic' converted warehouse flat in Westbourne Grove in the wee hours, after the society girl he brought home for the evening threw up on his retro Masters Of The Universe duvet and passed out...
I console myself by realising that the roulette guy is probably dead inside.
By now he's probably dead on the outside as well.
That ending is incredible. How oblivious to irony that roulette man is. It is simply a wonder to behold.
Hey, man, he was in The Androids of Tara, what have you ever
"Tolkienesque new potato" and "cross between a vintage Radio One DJ and a haunted grandfather clock" made me laugh. Great writing.
Best ending to any programme ever.
I have no idea what a conking war is but these young fellows have made it sound jolly exciting!
I have watched every episode at least 6 times, It just sends me into a trance and I will never tire of watching Charlie be Charlie
"...shouty guitar bollocks for misunderstood teenagers who don't want to tidy their bedroom and don't care who knows it!"
Brooker, you damn genious.
+timothy790110 yes, that describes the nu metal genre and its fans so nicely i use that every time i criticize nu metal (which is a lot)
Why do you criticize it a lot? I just don't listen to music I don't like, personally. Seems more sane.
but the fans are half the problem
because my job has me listening to utter shite! haha
Swine Brothers
Seems like a good use of your time that.
Last Of The Summer Wine was a beautiful show. And its beauty only improves with age. It captured a world forever lost now. Maybe it never really existed entirely how the show depicted it, but what it does depict is certainly a thing of the past which will never again be.
What I like about pretty much all of Brooker's shows is that they're ultimately just creative ways of encouraging humanity to accept their imperfections and enjoy life instead of allowing mindless TV execs and tech companies to make them feel like they're in some stupid competition to become the best human being imaginable in whatever category they can think of; even all of the doomsayer shit, regardless of who is making it, is basically turning its viewers into competitors in a competition to see who can be the best at being scared shitless.
This is also why in the rare situations where Charlie or one of his mates does compliment a show (and not in a comedically ironic way) it tends to be a show that's written incredibly well and/or has a certain degree of realism to it. Or in the case of something like Last of the Summer Wine, aligns with the goal of accepting imperfections and generally just enjoying life.
0:38
Hey, it's that room in The King's Speech, before it's in The King's Speech.
I love how Charlie gets all the behind-the-scenes people involved
Oh god, I was about 8 when most of this stuff came out, and I thought I'd blocked it out.
The Armstrongs? Fuck me, how did that get on TV?
I really want to see "Harpsichord Challenge" now
There was actually a fantastic sapphire and steel audio series from a company called big finish , sadly I available now but the second one in the series is truly chilling.
He couldn't be more right about (almost) everything he says. The man should be listened to by the networks, since everything he says about the garbage on TV these days is dead on! I don't live in the UK, but I do live in the US, which is much much worse when it comes to garbage television & ruining everything on it. I mean...we created the fucking Kardashians (very similar in physical appearance & disgusting-ness to the Cardassians, as well)....nobody should ever forgive whoever did that atrocity. We are continually rewarding idiots & the rich assholes who waste money frivolously on shit just because it's shiny or expensive, not because it's even unique or looks good. 99.9% of the time I've ever seen something ridiculously expensive, it was the most boring, ugly & non-unique thing ever. Then take into account these douchebags don't care about the fact the materials and labor cost almost nothing to the manufacturer, and if you think you're paying for "quality", you're mistaken. Simply put, you're paying for the price tag. That's the only thing that makes you think it's worth that & you should buy it. Mindless fucks. Lets stop giving these fucktards TV shows & allowing them to get richer & waste money on useless shit when there are fucking STARVING people and people who can't afford a place to live or basic necessities, it's just fucked. You don't reward bad behavior, and there's too many reasons to list why.
Oh and I forgot to mention the best part, David fucking Firth was a part of making this wonderful show. That is beyond awesome. Don't know of any other shows that can boast such a thing. David Firth rules.
R.I.P Michael Handel 1970 - 2013
Thanks for uploading these Paulbag, seeing as there are no Screenwipe DVDs. I really enjoyed watchin em.
Im going to watch all of the charlie brooker screen wipes again! Wish it was still on telly!
The Armstrongs are real. I've lived in Coventry, it's all like that.
Ah come on, loads of us liked Linkin Park for a few years and thought it made us better than all those regular people listening to the stuff on Smash Hits but the jokes he made were fair enough really.
Who was that charming, erudite, pugilistic gentleman at the end? He seems like a nice chap.
How can that bloke at the end call Charlie Broker talentless? I'd love to see him come up with something as brilliant as Black Mirror.... I'd be surprised if he could write his own address!!
It's Garfunkel from Detectorists!
Bizarrely, Last of the Summer Wine is kind of similar to Detectorists in that it's a gentle, character-based comedy.
Oh yeah, I remember Saphire and Steel! in Australia they showed all the Doctor Whos when I was little, when they finished with that we'd watch Saphire and Steel with Dad!
As an eight yo, my lasting memory of Threads was not the possibility of mutually assured destruction but of that woman wetting herself.
Wasn't wrong about Channel U being the only music channel with heart.
Charlie Brooker for president.
I watched CrimeWatch for the first time when I was 14. There was a reconstruction of a Woman opening the door in the morning and getting bent over and stabbed in the back. Not traumatising at all.
the parkinson intro was brilliant!
Ahhh..remember when we were confused whether reality tv was staged/scripted or not? Those were the days..
It's a little like a child bringing you flowers it's just picked from your own garden. The flowers (jokes) are half dead and you've seen them all before a thousand times. It's not particularly well arranged, and you've lost something you've worked for. But it's sweet and harmless, and still nice to look at from time to time.
SIMON FARNABY OMG
Your musical critiques have certainly improved since you were on Saturday Superstore, Mrs Thatcher.
Well his point is that they are marketed as subversive, but clearly cannot actually subversive as they are/ were (?) signed to a major label, had very expensive videos and were MTV darlings. I think that he made a good point that would be hard pushed to dispute.
Im assuming that the roulette bloke at the end has had his sense of irony surgically removed along with what mediocre amount of talent he may have had.
Maybe but remember despite how shit his channel is the hosts basically have normal 8 hour shifts which they have to fill with anything. When one of the runners mentioned he'd been indirectly mocked he probably thought "thank Christ, that'll kill 15 minutes". I remember turning on one of those channels at 4am (yeah), a crew member fell over and the host started riffing on their history of minor accidents - slips in the shower, torn muscles, broken arms etc. for about half an hour. That guy might be a tit but he is also in the televisual equivalent of hell.
now that's a video i'd like to watch....no really, i love watching people try and fill time. is this on youtube anywhere?
that you, broker?
I think he's maybe more self aware than you realise.
@@MantisCFS Greg Scott on Quizmania is probably the person you're thinking of, he's brilliant because he made time-filling an art.
the room at 0.43 is the one from the kings speech, check it !
Yup, it’s 33 Portland Place
Last of the summer wine fucking rocks and will and does outlive any fucking programme ever made in the history of the television ! YES YES YES !
Not everyone on that show will outlive much of anything...
this whole exchange wins a whole internet. really.
Anthea Turner - Sees pickled onions: "Who leaves jam jars on a table".
Did she think the giant white lumps in vinegar were mold or something?
Who did she screw to get that job? O_o
Having said that, I wish TV programs nowadays incuded these fuckups, rather than making their presenters appear as infallible gods.
I think the guy at the end was in the first ever episode, when he takes the piss out of phone in shows, and there's some woman there talking about joining the army, so my guess is someone on the show found out and they decided to try and get one over on him, failing miserably of course
Loool at the end.
GG NORE ,Mate:D
Lmao 'Ann Armstrong somehow sums up the year 1989' 😂😂😂😂😂
Lol, that ending.
Sapphire and Steel was probs the best sci-fi show ever made. Pity it had such a short run.
Also, i wanna play Othello with that dweeby fellow, no idea what it is, but he totally sold it to me.
Ahaha I love the end bit.
he was making a point about how real things can seem when they really arent.
It's been a decade, and I have yet to find the video for Conkin war.
Best quote ever.
The intro of this up to about 0:48 is probably the best Screenwipe moment ever...xD
Michael Handel is definitely real. A friend of mine played him at an Othello tournament once.
You know you're in England when someone uses 'terrific' in a negative context
Charlie Brooker + the League! = win!
Ah, Brooker's pre-quiff stage! Work, success and money sure make one age nicely.
I firmly believe he took the guy's comment on air as a shattering victory already. : D
Threads is a really brilliant drama I highly recommend it
Hahahahha i love how it's sticking out through his ears.
'JESUS CHRIST THEIRS A MOUSE, THEIRS A FUCKING MOUSE'.
Ideal lazy sunday material
if the people who make crimewatch uk want to scare me, it would help if they edited out the sounds of the production team stifling laughter.
Thats exactly what I am doing now too haha...Cant wait for Review of the Year 2012!
That (10:18) traumatised me as a child and I thought id just imagined it until now...
Michael Handel’s ode to Othello seemingly read by Beric Dondarrion.
RIP.
That day of the triffids thing actually freaked me out a bit
ANL over Parkinson intro, GENIUS
Charlie Broker's Screenwipes on Channel Four.
Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe on BBC Four.
RIP Chester Bennington.
I loved Sapphire and Steel. I was like 10 or something. Scary and exciting at the same time. You probably had to be there.
I love it how he says 's quick Google search' then it's looked up on Yahoo!....
a tolkien-esque new potato. genius
0:45 That actually made me jump when I first watched it.
18:15 Hey look it's Garfunkel from Simon and Garfunkel
I feel an episode of Sapphire n Steel coming on.....
that charlie brocker has a lot to answer for.
Bri99llaint, so many good bits but 13:38 has me in stitches. Classic Brooker.
The room which Charlie is in at 00:46 looks very much like the speech therapist's office in the Kings Speech.
First Scene in the King's Speech room !
It is only on for a week after a programme is aired - I've watched them on iplayer lots of times.
15:40 Wow! He said exactly what I said about Anthea and orgasms !
it turns out she could've shit from a great height, she's guilty of shoulder height shite. im a fucking poet.
Surprised that there's no screenwipe on the iplayer.Great author to.
Tim Westwood and Pimp My Ride UK, what a bunch of heavy arses..
Haunted Grandfather Clock.Hahahahahahhaha
And a lot of it are things people don't think about because they have no reason to. I can use a car, but have only the vaguest idea of how they're made, similarly, you can enjoy tv-series without thinking how it's made.
It only becomes a problem when tv claims to report on reality, and people accept it without scrutiny.
25:00 that 'motivational' guru had his own TH-cam channel about the body building.. maybe he's still on youtube.....
Ahhh He's offering you out Charlie better get in that ring !!
I thought the better line was "Who don't want to clean their rooms, and don't care who knows it"
Are there new ones on here I could look for? I suppose I could just look, but I forget what S0 we left off at.
00:40 The speech therapy room from the King's Speech
I have that howl as my message alert
The toilets talking lol
00:40 is the set from The King's Speech right? Not just me?
was he real? was he really suggesting half an hour of charlie brooker is wasting ur life when hes presenting a live roulette show?
half hour of your life that you'll never get back... meanwhile 13...12...11...10...
Isn't that the King's Speech set at the beginning?
How much of that at the end is edited?
SIMON FARNABYYYYY!!!
That bell-end at the end was just wonderful.
Only as an adult I've realised how unique my experience growing up was; my parents and a lot of their friends worked in the entertainment/advertising industry, so I've been aware of how tv was made and edited and how it all worked.
I showed this how to my mom, and she said; "It's an okay show, but isn't everything he says totally obvious and what everyone should know anyway by using their common sense." Which I kinda agree, but I guess most people don't really think much about it.
The Anti-Nowhere League - "So What". (The lyrics get even more obscene…)