Newswipe with Charlie Brooker - 2010 - Episode 2 - News Report

[shockcouture]

"this is followed by the obligatory shots of over-weight people with their faces subtly framed out"

[6KiiDZ]

i love this man

[flyworld3]

This is disturbingly accurate.

[DrunkRussian2]

This was YouTube clip of the week podcast at the time.

[avtrox]

awesome

[ShermerIllinois]

@1:20 Clive Owen's far less successful half-brother.

[djamorpheus]

Britain still has hope... America doesn't...

[FreddyFrazzer]

that is so funny

[LolaRoss89]

So terrible I'm annoying myself and must now leave the room. Bye.

[LolaRoss89]

@FrogmortonHotchkiss I was engaging in a very subtle irony - pointing out the fact that in correcting someone else you repeated their mistake. So yes, I do have you banged to rights, darling. And yes, I'm a terrible pedant.

[SkaTasticMatt]

That bloke at 1:01 is such a fool. He is complaining about the very thing he is doing. "I don't want to hear some punters opinion" But you ARE a punter giving an opinion.

[DJAvren]

@SkaTasticMatt Ah, but he only said he didn't want to hear it. Maybe he's fine with giving his opinion, as long as he doesn't have to listen to any of it ever again.

On topic though, this kind of video has been done before, but still marvellous execution.

[iChayce]

0:01 i hate ads

[samisacool1]

"a lighthouse keeper being beheaded by a laser beam"...genius

[McPrfctday]

I knew that when Connie Hug got married again it would piss me the fuck off because she was meant to be mine. But it's gonna be Charlie Brooker... and that makes me happy.

[McPrfctday]

@McPrfctday with a K... I always do that

[FrogmortonHotchkiss]

@McPrfctday Actually it's 'Huq' with a 'Q'. Though perhaps he calls her Connie Hug in private. That would spoil everything for me though.

[LolaRoss89]

@FrogmortonHotchkiss Actually it's Konnie Huq

[FrogmortonHotchkiss]

@LolaRoss89 I fucking knew that and I want to call you a pedant, but you got me bang to rights toots. Curses. 

[FrogmortonHotchkiss]

@LolaRoss89 Actually looking at it again I was just quoting the other guy who got it wrong so IN YOUR FACE HA HAAA!!! ... My god, we will become a species of eternal 8 year-olds if we ever get Cyberpunk-style direct mind-to-Internet implants...

[whessly]

glidind thru the fukin matrix. brilliant!

[scotkid100]

I wouldn't of laughed if he said walking through the fucking matrix but when he said gliding it made my cheeks hurt (from smiling!!!)

[oJUDAYALo]

BRILLIANT!!!

[kapakux89]

This is just too awesome, laughed my arse off.

Charlie Brooker is one funny guy.

[trexilll]

GLIDING THROUGH THE FUCKING MATRIX

[jambii]

fuckin awesome

[robeauch]

Subsequently, the piece will be posted on YouTube, and be endorsed by a succession of approving two-word reviews, interspersed with comments quoting favorite lines from the article.

[Intiom]

@robeauch Spot on sir.

[misswedders]

Spot on

[alleygator777]

Absolutely fantastic

[PSPCARURAL]

brilliant, lol

[Deja564]

Like hes Gliding through the fuckign Matrix

[radiodarkhorse]

brilliant

[antichris78]

love what the Guardian wrote - '...from now on every journalism student will have to watch this as a training film.' Hopefully therefore developing a method to present the news in a new non-patronising, non-sensationalist manner. Like they used to.

[clarkgore]

What breath of fresh air.

[whereisthediscoteque]

"like he's gliding through the fucking matrix"

[karl46]

@whereisthediscoteque Yeah, I fuckin cracked up at that!

[begily]

haha! genius

[zulufrog22]

excellent!!

[walker1054]

GEE-KNEE-OUS

[goulygliu]

perfect

[dsbarf]

genius.

[kphantomkk]

fuckin epic

[Lazune]

Genius? Absolutely!

[luvmydub]

Fantastic.

xxxxwipe is king!

[furstyferret81]

Best thing he's done yet!!

[LeClassics]

Newswipe should be taught in every school, in fact to every person on Earth who is going to watch, listen or read about the news sometime in their life. Indeed, there should be a "News Bullshit" licence that everyone has to pass before they can watch and therefore pass comment on news or topical debate... just think, illogical ranting eliminated in one fell swoop!

[jbdtaylor]

@LeClassics And The Sun newspaper would be in deep shit...