At thirty-three years of age I find the world to be so far removed from how it was when these episodes aired and not all that fun anymore. I'm taking solace in binging these.
When I watched it when first broadcast, I wasn't sure if the opening sequence really was Jonathan King. The bit at 0:50 is curious, especially as King's convictions predated the episode by some years. Not sure if they are bold jokes, or just plain weird.
Wow! It did not really register when I watched this at the time of original broadcast, but again (not unlike his eventual marriage to Konnie) there is a strange crossover between what Charlie Brooker says, and what comes to pass. Of course, he picked Huw Edwards as someone who calmly reads the news, and eventually was so trusted as a "voice of the BBC", that he covered the Queen Elizabeth funeral. So, at the time, suggesting that Edwards would suddenly get "his bum out on the news" 28:12 was an extreme flight of fancy. And now, August 2024, getting his bum out on live TV is a very tame idea compared to a conviction relating to child pornography. I wonder who has the mammoth task of removing all of Huw Edwards' appearances from the BBC archives? Well done, Charlie. You line things up. They happen. I wonder what else will come to pass. Eat your hearts out, devotees of Nostradamus.
You think that was a bad day, little did you know that waitress was specially trained at the Kirsten Stewart School of Misery Models to save money on smiling muscles and anti wrinkle creams. "Whoooa!I never meant to brag!"
I don't know if my new note book sized solar panel is rubbish or if England is useless for solar power at this time of year. The first couple of days it was like my phone was charging backwards. 😢 I just wanted to save my mom some money. Anyway, in a fit of superstitious paranoia I plugged it in in the dark and ran a zombie killing mission ,just in case it was from opposite world . My neighbour bought a Z phone >.> it has to be the flippiest screen zombie I ever ever saw :-/ turns out you can't charge solar panels off security lamps.
I had a nightmare, that it was a giant wirey-lace sucking machine, and that it sucked everything in the world, like blankets of darkness and tiny thunderbugs and that the one percent charge of My phone was enabling computer hackers to see out of my Eastern window like batman. But eyeballs. Eyeballman
Do you know in Azerbaijan, I saw a mud pot that isn't at all volcano. It's *pyroclastic*. There's a fence around the towering, burning torrent of mud, but it's basically in the middle of town. In Grindavik, Iceland, there's two fu.l on bubbling lava flows. It looks great in the dark,plus Iceland is really cold, so it's not this...giantly ferocious hail of fiery death like some other volcanos, Like Pompeii. That was so fast, there are preserved concrete corpses who were asleep when the catastrophe occurred.
That's not in my Ruben's tutorial. You know, I saw two separate complete statues of Michaelangelo's David. One in Russia one in Buenos Aires. They're shockingly alike. It's creepy, even.
I thinks that I hates her inside out. "Thanks for the 0xygen," she didn't say "thanks for all my fingers on," pfff. Hoorays. If they knew they were hoorays, they'd know, ey
Saying that, they say a change is as good as a rest! Sometimes. I had a dream about the spa water at Bath, and I discovered they had performed a quaint revival drama not long before. Later I found a cute similarly haunted looking village south by the Clent Hills, I thought would be awesome for an Assassin's Creed Theme type park. With the marvels of modern technology one could summon to life a bold and dashing seeming of a derring-do and mysterious scrolls of reputed witchcraft! Treasures! Fame! Harmless Japery!
I'm sure yall know this but, Charlie Brooker is one of the nicest guys 8n showbiz (ugh, that word!). Watch him in interviews and you see that the wipe persona is massively amped up. That said, still twists my melon that he married Konnie Huq!
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.
Wonder what happened to that baldy w*nker off the roulette show. Obviosly he went on to bigger and better things that that Charlie Broker fella right? Right?
I'm currently by pure coincidence re-watching two old UK programmes written by David Quantick. TV Burb is the other!
13:32 legit sent me into a laughing/coughing fit.
It is just fooking brilliant. Yes, it is Charlie.
At thirty-three years of age I find the world to be so far removed from how it was when these episodes aired and not all that fun anymore. I'm taking solace in binging these.
If you walk with Brooker, he'll save your soul.
Yeah, everything below the right nut has gone. It's all a bit of a mess, really.
I miss Charlie Brookers earlier shows like this as well as the times, hard to believe some of these shows are almost 20 years old now. Time flies
When I watched it when first broadcast, I wasn't sure if the opening sequence really was Jonathan King. The bit at 0:50 is curious, especially as King's convictions predated the episode by some years. Not sure if they are bold jokes, or just plain weird.
Wow! It did not really register when I watched this at the time of original broadcast, but again (not unlike his eventual marriage to Konnie) there is a strange crossover between what Charlie Brooker says, and what comes to pass. Of course, he picked Huw Edwards as someone who calmly reads the news, and eventually was so trusted as a "voice of the BBC", that he covered the Queen Elizabeth funeral. So, at the time, suggesting that Edwards would suddenly get "his bum out on the news" 28:12 was an extreme flight of fancy. And now, August 2024, getting his bum out on live TV is a very tame idea compared to a conviction relating to child pornography. I wonder who has the mammoth task of removing all of Huw Edwards' appearances from the BBC archives? Well done, Charlie. You line things up. They happen. I wonder what else will come to pass. Eat your hearts out, devotees of Nostradamus.
That bit at 11:00 hasn't aged well lol. They absolutely do now.
Charlie Brooker shouting out Sean Lock's 15 Stories High ❤❤
Anyone notice that's the same 'sex music' from the Black Mirror episode that he later wrote? 😅
Edwina Currie piling it on, on question time... amazing.
You think that was a bad day, little did you know that waitress was specially trained at the Kirsten Stewart School of Misery Models to save money on smiling muscles and anti wrinkle creams. "Whoooa!I never meant to brag!"
In retrospect screenwipe chose objects of derision that have been justified by history. Jeremy Kyle and JLC.
8:03 🤣🤣🤣
I remember this
Jeremy Kyle was, is and will always be a cancerous urethra.
Can't believe how old this looks now.
25:00 that 'motivational' guru had his own CZcams channel about the body building.. maybe he's still on youtube.....
Back when good tv shows were made and people wanted to accept and watch them
I don't know if my new note book sized solar panel is rubbish or if England is useless for solar power at this time of year. The first couple of days it was like my phone was charging backwards. 😢 I just wanted to save my mom some money. Anyway, in a fit of superstitious paranoia I plugged it in in the dark and ran a zombie killing mission ,just in case it was from opposite world . My neighbour bought a Z phone >.> it has to be the flippiest screen zombie I ever ever saw :-/ turns out you can't charge solar panels off security lamps.
I had a nightmare, that it was a giant wirey-lace sucking machine, and that it sucked everything in the world, like blankets of darkness and tiny thunderbugs and that the one percent charge of My phone was enabling computer hackers to see out of my Eastern window like batman. But eyeballs. Eyeballman
Do you know in Azerbaijan, I saw a mud pot that isn't at all volcano. It's *pyroclastic*. There's a fence around the towering, burning torrent of mud, but it's basically in the middle of town. In Grindavik, Iceland, there's two fu.l on bubbling lava flows. It looks great in the dark,plus Iceland is really cold, so it's not this...giantly ferocious hail of fiery death like some other volcanos, Like Pompeii. That was so fast, there are preserved concrete corpses who were asleep when the catastrophe occurred.
That's not in my Ruben's tutorial. You know, I saw two separate complete statues of Michaelangelo's David. One in Russia one in Buenos Aires. They're shockingly alike. It's creepy, even.
I thinks that I hates her inside out. "Thanks for the 0xygen," she didn't say "thanks for all my fingers on," pfff. Hoorays. If they knew they were hoorays, they'd know, ey
Saying that, they say a change is as good as a rest! Sometimes. I had a dream about the spa water at Bath, and I discovered they had performed a quaint revival drama not long before. Later I found a cute similarly haunted looking village south by the Clent Hills, I thought would be awesome for an Assassin's Creed Theme type park. With the marvels of modern technology one could summon to life a bold and dashing seeming of a derring-do and mysterious scrolls of reputed witchcraft! Treasures! Fame! Harmless Japery!
That title sequence tho.
Oh, I love doodahs, b*llocks to saving sixty grand for medical school! Woojimiflip and widdleewee for me.
That (10:18) traumatised me as a child and I thought id just imagined it until now...
I need to fight "thespian" billy. What an awful individual.
8:57 I'd just like to say that Mark Commode (deliberate) is infinitely slappable. Prick!
I'm sure yall know this but, Charlie Brooker is one of the nicest guys 8n showbiz (ugh, that word!). Watch him in interviews and you see that the wipe persona is massively amped up. That said, still twists my melon that he married Konnie Huq!
48:22 and thus The Mighty Black Mirror was born! ❤
The wire is a work of art
And speaking of old sweaters...
My favourite game is identifying the soundtrack to this show.
That 28:12 Hugh Edwards gag aged like fine wine
Incredible
He really does have the power to predict everything
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.
I couldn't imagine Hue Edwards doing something dodgy 😉
Best use of duelling banjos ever
the room he is in looks like the one used in the kings speech
7:36 who would have thought the presenter turned into a brainless zombie and became an mp in the Tory government
Eastenders was very popular among Americans, including Brad pitt
21.04. Did he call her a titted geek!?😂
Wonder what happened to that baldy w*nker off the roulette show. Obviosly he went on to bigger and better things that that Charlie Broker fella right? Right?
Zzzzzzz.....
AM 180 😍
Is that Peter Serafinowicz at 24:23?
Does anyone know the piece of music used in the ‘TV Development’ segment. Thanks
David Quantick not holding it at 25:49 is hilarious.
It's funny seeing Jamie Oliver so loved back then and now gets dunked on everyone for being a bad chef