Watching episodes of Screenwipe, I found myself with the vague feeling that Charlie Brooker's style of speaking and humour reminded me of something, and then I discovered that he was one of the primary influences for Yahtzee of Zero Punctuation fame and it all fell into place. (The place into which it fell was pretty great! Especially as Brooker is apparently a fan of Yahtzee. I think that's rather lovely.)
'Loads of productions do this; we're only telling you about it because we're so bloody postmodern we're about to cut to a shot of me typing these words into the script itself.'
I love the bizarre postmodern bits in Screenwipe and Newswipe. I love it when Brooker literally attacks the viewer. I love that you're sitting around and watching a guy sitting around and watching television on television (it sort of reminds me of the bit in (ahem) the film of New Moon when you're sitting in the cinema and watching people sitting in the cinema on the cinema screen, which I found incredibly weird; Brooker's programmes are slightly less disconcerting, as they're not filmed from the perspective of the television screen, but it's still a little odd). I love it when Brooker is literally talking to himself on Newswipe, and not solely because of the rather intriguing potential for Charlie Brooker/Charlie Brooker as a pairing.
(But, I will confess, mostly because of that. Brooker is totally a man who would have sex with his parallel-universe self.)
I also love the general 'mocking television with your slightly scary friend' feel of it and the masturbation jokes (possibly for inappropriate reasons, don't judge me) and Charlie Brooker's stupid weird attractive face. I love the moments that make you realise that, for all his misanthropy and rage, Charlie Brooker is actually a bloody decent guy.
I sort of want him to meet Dr Cox. I think that would be fun.
I would also like to see Charlie Brooker and David Mitchell team up to hunt the supernatural. There's no real basis for this; I'd just enjoy it. They probably wouldn't be much good, though, unless they somehow found a way to dispose of vampires using sarcasm alone. Perhaps they should team up with Ruby, so at least one of their little trio of sarcasm will be capable of killing things. Brooker, meanwhile, has the power to blow things up with the force of his scorn, owing to a mysterious incident when he was six months old; most of the time he can control it. Mitchell was somehow dragged into this and feels a bit awkward and out-of-place, particularly during the inevitable threesomes.
(I haven't yet seen Thursday's episode of Supernatural, so for all I know this could have been exactly what happened.)
'Loads of productions do this; we're only telling you about it because we're so bloody postmodern we're about to cut to a shot of me typing these words into the script itself.'
I love the bizarre postmodern bits in Screenwipe and Newswipe. I love it when Brooker literally attacks the viewer. I love that you're sitting around and watching a guy sitting around and watching television on television (it sort of reminds me of the bit in (ahem) the film of New Moon when you're sitting in the cinema and watching people sitting in the cinema on the cinema screen, which I found incredibly weird; Brooker's programmes are slightly less disconcerting, as they're not filmed from the perspective of the television screen, but it's still a little odd). I love it when Brooker is literally talking to himself on Newswipe, and not solely because of the rather intriguing potential for Charlie Brooker/Charlie Brooker as a pairing.
(But, I will confess, mostly because of that. Brooker is totally a man who would have sex with his parallel-universe self.)
I also love the general 'mocking television with your slightly scary friend' feel of it and the masturbation jokes (possibly for inappropriate reasons, don't judge me) and Charlie Brooker's stupid weird attractive face. I love the moments that make you realise that, for all his misanthropy and rage, Charlie Brooker is actually a bloody decent guy.
I sort of want him to meet Dr Cox. I think that would be fun.
I would also like to see Charlie Brooker and David Mitchell team up to hunt the supernatural. There's no real basis for this; I'd just enjoy it. They probably wouldn't be much good, though, unless they somehow found a way to dispose of vampires using sarcasm alone. Perhaps they should team up with Ruby, so at least one of their little trio of sarcasm will be capable of killing things. Brooker, meanwhile, has the power to blow things up with the force of his scorn, owing to a mysterious incident when he was six months old; most of the time he can control it. Mitchell was somehow dragged into this and feels a bit awkward and out-of-place, particularly during the inevitable threesomes.
(I haven't yet seen Thursday's episode of Supernatural, so for all I know this could have been exactly what happened.)
