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Posted 21 September 2008 - 03:20 PM

http://www.guardian..../charliebrooker

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=wiwmYjk9ARA

http://www.tvgohome.com/

Check those links out, then discuss.

YZ has stated a few times that Charlie is one of his major influences, so I just wanted to see what you guys thought.

I recommend him wholeheartedly. Quite frankly the funniest man in print.
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Posted 21 September 2008 - 03:31 PM

Seconding the recommendation. He writes a couple of Guardian columns a week too, which are always bitter, dark and hilarious. Funny, intelligent misanthropes are all too rare.
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Posted 21 September 2008 - 03:37 PM

haha, i can see the same angry cynicism
i third the recommendation
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Posted 21 September 2008 - 03:45 PM

QUOTE (Millitant Pacifist @ Sep 21 2008, 09:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Seconding the recommendation. He writes a couple of Guardian columns a week too, which are always bitter, dark and hilarious. Funny, intelligent misanthropes are all too rare.


One of the links up there are digital recreations of the columns he writes for the Guardian.

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Posted 21 September 2008 - 04:03 PM

Ah, so it is. Not sure how I missed that, what with the URL and all. Never mind, then.
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Posted 21 September 2008 - 04:34 PM

reading these, i think yahtzee's work is filled with more hopelessness, not saying charlie brooker isn't dark
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Posted 21 September 2008 - 05:39 PM

. . . no opinion from me. This guy is just nothing like my type of humour.

I really don't see the connection between his and yahtzee's humour.
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Posted 21 September 2008 - 05:55 PM

Fast, scathing, expletive-ridden, intelligent, misanthropic...

Nothing like YZ, then.
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Posted 21 September 2008 - 07:08 PM

I can be an infuriating troll, yet be nothing like hidmetrilmechris&trilby.

So the guy's attitude is the same as yahtz in the dichotomy of angry at the world or not . . . so?
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Posted 21 September 2008 - 07:21 PM

I think he's funny, kind of like if Dave Barry hated the world and all its inhabitants.
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Posted 23 September 2008 - 10:17 AM

I read Dawn of the Dumb, he's ten times the writer Jeremy Clarkson is.

And those of us who remember him from his days from PCZONE will be able to spot the similarities.

Eating his own arse indeed!
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Posted 23 September 2008 - 10:42 AM

Please don't mention Clarkson ever again. I'm hoping if I ignore him he will vanish.

Brooker has the most imaginative and visceral ways of describing things. One that has stuck with me is a Big Brother contestant as "with a face like a perineum with tiny black dots drawn on it for eyes".
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Posted 23 September 2008 - 11:17 AM

Am I the only one in the world who likes Clarkson?
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Posted 23 September 2008 - 11:19 AM

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Posted 23 September 2008 - 02:41 PM

I like Clarkson as well. Yes, he's pretty right wing and very anti-youth, but he's got a fantasticly blunt delivery I absolutely love.

As for Brooker's best line? He described another Big Brother contestant as looking like a foolish horse, which I liked.
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