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The Hell of it All
The Hell of it All | Charlie Brooker
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Brooker on the BNP Party Political Broadcast: 'Nick Griffin's first line is "Don't turn it off!", which in terms of opening gambits is about as enticing as hearing someone shout "Try not to be sick!" immediately prior to intercourse.' Brooker on Philip from The Apprentice: 'If it were legal or even possible to do so, he'd probably marry himself, then conduct a long-term affair with himself behind himself's back, eventually fathering nine children with himself, all of whom would walk and talk like him. And then he'd lock those mini-hims in a secret underground dungeon to have his sick way with his selves, undetected, for decades.' Brooker on Royal Ascot: 'Every year it's the same thing: a 200-year-old countess you've never heard of, who closely resembles a Cruella De Vil mannequin assembled entirely from heavily wrinkled scrotal tissue that's been soaked in tea for the past eight decades, attempts to draw attention away from her sagging neck - a droopy curtain of skin that hangs so low she has to repeatedly kick it out of her path as she crosses the royal compound - by balancing the millinery equivalent of Bilbao's Guggenheim museum on her head.'
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Chancecall
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A collection of Charlie Brookers articles from the Guardian between 2007 - 2009 discussing everything from politics to the Apprentice TV show. Not recommended if you‘re easily offended since the humour is often fairly self deprecating towards everyone including the reader, often explicit. Can see a lot of inspiration in here that went into the Black Mirror series he now works on. Enjoyable read on lunch breaks.

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Chancecall
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TV drama rarely deals with authentically frightening subjects. Except murder, which has been so overdone it‘s almost ceased to seem like a real or scary phenomenon. If I died at the hands of a serial killer I‘d probably just think ‘Ooh, how exciting, it‘s like something off the telly‘ before enjoying a nice lie down and a bleed. - Charlie Brooker

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Chancecall
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First line - “I went to a fashionable London nightclub on Saturday. Not the sort of sentence I get to write very often, because I enjoy nightclubs less than I enjoy eating wool.” - this is going to be a fun read.

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kalinichta
The Hell of it All | Charlie Brooker
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I don't care about the author speculation aspect of the article, but I'm pretty excited to learn there will be book spin-offs of one of the best shows around, Black Mirror.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2017/jun/14/charlie-brooker-black-mi...

melrailey I LOVE Black Mirror (well I haven't watched season 2 yet) but I still think about those season one episodes at odd times. 8y
vivastory This book reminded me a lot of season 3 episode 1 8y
kalinichta @melrailey My English ex-boyfriend introduced me to the show before it came out in the U.S., and I sat there slack-jawed after the first episode, then eagerly asked to watch more. 8y
kalinichta @vivastory Ooo, interesting. Will have to check that out. 8y
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