Happy Face 29 Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 (edited) First episode of the new series tonight. It was very funny. All about why tv is shit. Repeated at 0.30AM if you missed it. BBC4 Edited October 1, 2009 by Happy Face Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazarus 0 Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 Screenwipe? Sounds like something Jimbo would have Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted February 5, 2007 Author Share Posted February 5, 2007 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xGZnRgfTCo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 Good stuff...Bloke in the pub style. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peasepud 59 Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 I thought it was something to do with Charlie Brooks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo 175 Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 Screenwipe? Sounds like something Jimbo would have Thats rich coming from Laz the Porn baron ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 Aye, caught a bit of this last night and I've seen him before. Canny funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted October 1, 2009 Author Share Posted October 1, 2009 Gameswipe is on Tonight, 23:20 on BBC Four Or see it on Iplayer http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00n1...kers_Gameswipe/ Quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonatine 11542 Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 Saw that the other night, shame it was just a one off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mighty Hog 526 Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 Watched it today and it was class. A couple of the 18-20 year olds at work saw it and looked horrified when I told them I had a Spectrum and remembered playing Chucky Egg. Youthful twats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 31203 Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 Any word on a new series of Screenwipe? It's a better show than YHBW imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mighty Hog 526 Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 No new series, just an "End of Year" Special with series two of Newswipe in January/February. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted October 1, 2009 Author Share Posted October 1, 2009 I got the giggles and ended up weeping with laughter when he mentioned how he walks back and forward and jumps around during talky bits. It's funny cos it's true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 14053 Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 Thought it was class. It seemed like an introduction to a longer series though rather than a one-off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonatine 11542 Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 Charlie Brooker Makes Gameswipe a Success On Tuesday, BBC Four aired “Gameswipe” featuring Charlie Brooker, and viewers have declared the show a success. The show is an informative and humorous look at video games in the past and present. The British comedian and broadcaster presented the show in the same kind of style as Screenwipe and Newswipe, which turned out to be good. The show ran for 50 minutes as part of a primer that explained the genres of games, such as MMORPGs (Massive Multi-player Online Role Playing Game), platformers and shoot ‘em up games. The show offered great insight into topics like brilliant guest editorials, mainstream coverage of games, and badly written games. And Brooker also covered specific games, like Wolfenstein, Portal, Grand Theft Auto, Half-Life and Manhunt 2. Viewers liked the show so much that 2.2% of the UK television audience, which is about 361,000 viewers, watched it. “Gameswipe” aired from 10pm to 11pm just after “Electric Dreams”, which drew 2.3% of the audience, or about 492,000. This isn’t too much of a drop for the one time show about video games, as the BBC Four usually draws 8 million viewers for the average week around the same time. Although the show was just a one time thing, the BBC may decide to make more episodes since it drew so many viewers. Plus, Brooker said early Wednesday that the show attracted more viewers than the other non-fiction shows he’s done. Then he added that it’s possible he will add games content to Newswipe and Screenwipe. Brooker is known best for the mini-series drama “Dead Set” and his work for The Guardian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15718 Posted October 2, 2009 Share Posted October 2, 2009 Brooker's games show should consist solely of redirecting people to http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation then sitting back on his sofa for half an hour and wanking himself silly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia 0 Posted October 2, 2009 Share Posted October 2, 2009 (edited) To be fair Yahtzee ripped off Brooker's caustic style of reviewing. Edited October 2, 2009 by Ketsbaia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15718 Posted October 2, 2009 Share Posted October 2, 2009 Yeah, but who cares about fair when someone else is already doing your job for you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Castell 0 Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 Charlie Brooker is great. The whole thing about mission shows was bang on. Funny watching Konnie Huq swearing too. He has made me really laugh at times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 Brooker on Apple v Microsoft: Microsoft's grinning robots or the Brotherhood of the Mac. Which is worse? I admit it: I'm a bigot. A hopeless bigot at that: I know my particular prejudice is absurd, but I just can't control it. It's Apple. I don't like Apple products. And the better-designed and more ubiquitous they become, the more I dislike them. I blame the customers. Awful people. Awful. Stop showing me your iPhone. Stop stroking your Macbook. Stop telling me to get one. Seriously, stop it. I don't care if Mac stuff is better. I don't care if Mac stuff is cool. I don't care if every Mac product comes equipped a magic button on the side that causes it to piddle gold coins and resurrect the dead and make holographic unicorns dance inside your head. I'm not buying one, so shut up and go home. Go back to your house. I know, you've got an iHouse. The walls are brushed aluminum. There's a glowing Apple logo on the roof. And you love it there. You absolute MONSTER. Of course, it's safe to assume Mac products are indeed as brilliant as their owners make out. Why else would they spend so much time trying to convert non-believers? They're not getting paid. They simply want to spread their happiness, like religious crusaders. Consequently, nothing pleases them more than watching a PC owner struggle with a slab of non-Mac machinery. It validates their spiritual choice. Recently I sat in a room trying to write something on a Sony Vaio PC laptop which seemed to be running a special slow-motion edition of Windows Vista specifically designed to infuriate human beings as much as possible. Trying to get it to do anything was like issuing instructions to a depressed employee over a sluggish satellite feed. When I clicked on an application it spent a small eternity contemplating the philosophical implications of opening it, begrudgingly complying with my request several months later. It drove me up the wall. I called it a bastard and worse. At one point I punched a table. This drew the attention of two nearby Mac owners. They hovered over and stood beside me, like placid monks. "Ah: the delights of Vista," said one. "It really is time you got a Mac," said the other. "They're just better," sang monk number one. "You won't regret it," whispered the second. I scowled and returned to my infernal machine, like a dishevelled park-bench boozer shrugging away two pious AA recruiters by pulling a grubby, dented hip flask from his pocket and pointedly taking an extra deep swig. Leave me alone, I thought. I don't care if you're right. I just want you to die. I know Windows is awful. Everyone knows Windows is awful. Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it. OK, OK: I know other operating systems are available. But their advocates seem even creepier, snootier and more insistent than Mac owners. The harder they try to convince me, the more I'm repelled. To them, I'm a sheep. And they're right. I'm a helpless, stupid, lazy sheep. I'm also a masochist. And that's why I continue to use Windows – horrible Windows – even though I hate every second of it. It's grim, it's slow, everything's badly designed and nothing really works properly: using Windows is like living in a communist bloc nation circa 1981. And I wouldn't change it for the world, because I'm an abject bloody idiot and I hate myself, and this is what I deserve: to be sentenced to Windows for life. That's why Windows works for me. But I'd never recommend it to anybody else, ever. This puts me in line with roughly everybody else in the world. No one has ever earnestly turned to a fellow human being and said, "Hey, have you considered Windows?" Not in the real world at any rate. Until now. Microsoft, hellbent on tackling the conspicuous lack of word-of-mouth recommendation, is encouraging people – real people – to host "Windows 7 launch parties" to celebrate the 22 October release of, er, Windows 7. The idea is that you invite a group of friends – your real friends – to your home – your real home – and entertain them with a series of Windows 7 tutorials. So you show them how to burn a CD, how to make a little video, how to change the wallpaper, and how to, oh no, hang on it's not supposed to do that, oh, I think it's frozen, um, er, let me just, um, no that's not it, um, er, um, er, so how's it going with you and Kathy anyway, um, er, OK well see you around I guess. To assist the party-hosting massive, they've also uploaded a series of spectacularly cringeworthy videos to YouTube, in which the four most desperate actors in the world stand around in a kitchen sharing tips on how best to indoctrinate guests in the wonder of Windows. If they were staring straight down the lens reading hints off a card it might be acceptable; instead they have been instructed to pretend to be friends. The result is the most nauseating display of artificial camaraderie since the horrific Doritos "Friendchips" TV campaign (which caused 50,000 people to kill themselves in 2003, or should have done). It's so terrible, it induces an entirely new emotion: a blend of vertigo, disgust, anger and embarrassment which I like to call "shitasmia". It not only creates this emotion: it defines it. It's the most shitasmic cultural artefact in history. Watch it for yourself. Still, bad though it is, I vaguely prefer the clumping, clueless, uncool, crappiness of Microsoft's bland Stepford gang to the creepy assurance of the average Mac evangelist. At least the grinning dildos in the Windows video are fictional, whereas eerie replicant Mac monks really are everywhere, standing over your shoulder in their charcoal pullovers, smirking with amusement at your hopelessly inferior OS, knowing they're better than you because they use Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard. Snow Leopard. SNOW LEOPARD. I don't care if you're right. I just want you to die. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Castell 0 Posted October 7, 2009 Share Posted October 7, 2009 He is right about those Apple snobs. I'm never one for being slavish to one brand, but the Apple weirdos are wankers. I'd consider getting an Apple product if I knew it was worth the hype, and if they weren't so effing expensive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonatine 11542 Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 New series of You Have Been Watching starts tonight on C4 for those interested Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Kenneth Noisewater 0 Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 Enjoyed it, couple of funny lines in that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted October 10, 2011 Author Share Posted October 10, 2011 (edited) The first half of todays Guardian piece is poetry. Just saying Cameron's a cunt. But the imagery is marvellous. For example... Cameron paused for a moment, to observe and enjoy the spectacle of the animal's futile writhing. And as he watched it squirm on the floor below him, as he felt the cold blood of satisfaction course through his twisted genitals, he briefly recalled that day's discussion about the freezing of the licence fee, and a baleful smile flickered around the approximate area of his headlike section upon which a pair of frighteningly convincing decoy humanoid lips usually sat during daylight hours, as part of his ingenious disguise. http://www.guardian....rooker-bbc-cuts Edited October 10, 2011 by Happy Face Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted October 12, 2011 Share Posted October 12, 2011 Addictive writing and general ramblings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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