Charlie Brooker
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Podcast Appearances
I don't know what you're talking about. My wife doesn't know what I'm talking about. No, but as a metaphor, it's like a... Not what you thought you were getting into at the start, and you can't see... social media, all sorts of platform. You can't see a way you're addicted to it now as well. Or smoking, smoking as well. It's like, no, it's bad. Yeah. No, it's bad. And it's, it's more ish.
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So my career path is weird. And again, it sort of slightly makes sense in retrospect. So I was a cartoonist, first of all. I was a cartoonist. Then I was a video games journalist. Then I was sort of doing a website. Then I was working in comedy, and I was writing for The Guardian. But I was doing, like, TV reviews. And I never considered myself a journalist.
So my career path is weird. And again, it sort of slightly makes sense in retrospect. So I was a cartoonist, first of all. I was a cartoonist. Then I was a video games journalist. Then I was sort of doing a website. Then I was working in comedy, and I was writing for The Guardian. But I was doing, like, TV reviews. And I never considered myself a journalist.
So my career path is weird. And again, it sort of slightly makes sense in retrospect. So I was a cartoonist, first of all. I was a cartoonist. Then I was a video games journalist. Then I was sort of doing a website. Then I was working in comedy, and I was writing for The Guardian. But I was doing, like, TV reviews. And I never considered myself a journalist.
I would write columns, and I would write TV reviews. But I always considered myself a bit of a clown, really. Do you know what I mean? Like, I was attempting to do comedy bits. I was always writing... comedy. And then I'd had an idea for, we did a show. I had an idea for a show in the UK, which took a comic premise and then played it straight. It was a zombie show.
I would write columns, and I would write TV reviews. But I always considered myself a bit of a clown, really. Do you know what I mean? Like, I was attempting to do comedy bits. I was always writing... comedy. And then I'd had an idea for, we did a show. I had an idea for a show in the UK, which took a comic premise and then played it straight. It was a zombie show.
I would write columns, and I would write TV reviews. But I always considered myself a bit of a clown, really. Do you know what I mean? Like, I was attempting to do comedy bits. I was always writing... comedy. And then I'd had an idea for, we did a show. I had an idea for a show in the UK, which took a comic premise and then played it straight. It was a zombie show.
And the premise was that there's a series of the TV show, the season of Big Brother, the reality show, which at the time was absolutely massive in the UK. And the premise was there was a season of Big Brother.
And the premise was that there's a series of the TV show, the season of Big Brother, the reality show, which at the time was absolutely massive in the UK. And the premise was there was a season of Big Brother.
And the premise was that there's a series of the TV show, the season of Big Brother, the reality show, which at the time was absolutely massive in the UK. And the premise was there was a season of Big Brother.
And what if there was a zombie apocalypse broke out during this and the people in the Big Brother house who had been chosen by producers to argue and fight and not get along are sort of the only people left alive in the whole of Britain. And then I thought the other fun thing was I was a fan of sort of horror and zombie things.
And what if there was a zombie apocalypse broke out during this and the people in the Big Brother house who had been chosen by producers to argue and fight and not get along are sort of the only people left alive in the whole of Britain. And then I thought the other fun thing was I was a fan of sort of horror and zombie things.
And what if there was a zombie apocalypse broke out during this and the people in the Big Brother house who had been chosen by producers to argue and fight and not get along are sort of the only people left alive in the whole of Britain. And then I thought the other fun thing was I was a fan of sort of horror and zombie things.
I thought, well, what if we, and then what if we play it straight was the other sort of the idea. And we did that and it went down,
I thought, well, what if we, and then what if we play it straight was the other sort of the idea. And we did that and it went down,
I thought, well, what if we, and then what if we play it straight was the other sort of the idea. And we did that and it went down,
um really well it was like really successful and then so the chat it was channel four in the uk said well what else would you like to do and i'd always been an admirer of the twilight zone and we had a show in the uk tales of the unexpected which was short role doll stories the bbc often used to when i was growing up they put out these really bizarre sort of one-off plays sometimes about you couldn't kind of you'd go into school the next day like did