I love Charlie Brooker's work, so imagine my disappointment when , having parted with £10 I found my book was just CB's newspaper column, still I guess we are all trying to recycle and up cycle more.I did have a few laugh out loud moments, but not as many as I would have expected. I won't be buyi...
Cruel, acerbic, impassioned, gleeful, frequently outrageous and always hilarious, Charlie Brooker's Screen Burn collects the best of the much-loved Guardian Guide columns in one easy-to-read-on-the-toilet package. Sit back and roar as Brooker rips mercilessly into Simon Cowell, Big Brother, Trinn...
Picking up where the original 'Screen Burn' left off (somewhere between Derren Brown and Gordon Smith, 'Britain's most accurate medium') Charlie Brooker again takes aim at a range of subjects, from David Cameron to human hair.
Yeah, that’s right: sigh. Two years ago, almost to the day, I wrote a piece about the world’s bizarre insistence on marrying me off, prompted by three separate incidents in which strangers chuckled at my shambling incompetence and suggested that what I needed was a proper sorting out, which could...
Now, Jeremy Bowen turns his attentions to Moses (BBC1) and embarks on another quest for truth. Of course, Moses doesn’t quite warrant an entire series on his own – he simply wasn’t as cool as Jesus. Nonetheless, he had the decency to do a reasonable number of interesting things, like floating dow...
Next time you find yourself lurking in the corner at a party, watching the disgusting fun unfold around you, start saying the word ‘despair’ out loud. Begin the incantation at conversational level, then increase the volume incrementally until someone asks you to leave. I guarantee you’ll be bello...