Charlie Brooker on US TV

[jimmy2k4o]

i love charile brooker but wtf is he talking about "entrapment" and he seems morally outraged at to catch a predator there are fucking paedophiles!!! they deserve there sack cut off and jammed in their throat so they choke on it

[BoJanglezzzzzz]

@jimmy2k4o Tbh I think overall he's more on about the obscene way they do it- tricking the guy is one thing, but luridly reading out chat logs and making him come to a house full of cameras is totally unnecessary. As for chopping their balls off, please don't have children, ever. Either that or Move to Saudi Arabia, you'd fit in just fine with the eye-for-an-eye mentality over there.

[jimmy2k4o]

@BoJanglezzzzzz are you actually judging what i said???? you! the person who seems to be defending paedophiles....people who rape children????

[BoJanglezzzzzz]

@jimmy2k4o I'm not defending paedophiles you moron I'm defending Brooker's opinion on a show about paedophiles! And simultaneously criticisng you for possessing neanderthal views. Read my post again before you come back at me.

[JoellyMoley]

@jimmy2k4o Nobody is defending child molesters, but a TV show dedicated to showcasing them is gaudy and exploitative. Would you approve of a similar show dedicated to ensnaring petty thieves? How about litterers? Hey, why not a gameshow? Convicted felons fight alligators with big foam swords! Oh cock, now we're in a Stephen King book and it's all your fault, you big American fucker.

[jimmy2k4o]

@JoellyMoley No I wouldn't approve but thats not the same yes its entrapment and tacky but its getting paedos off the streets or at least lets people know what they look like, also I'm not American I'm a Scotsman I've never even been to America

[jimmy2k4o]

@JoellyMoley oh sorry the "american fucker" thing was from the video you wernt saying it at me. my apologies

[asdasdasdfdfd333]

@jimmy2k4o That's the difference between american and British attitudes to entertainment. It's seen as too vulgar in the UK, and yes it is entrapment. It's similar to leaving a wallet out in the street full of money, and then tracking the theif down later on camera for public humiliation without a trial. It's the sort of cheap crap that you'd expect on eastern european TV.

[ECHOdavidoff]

"yeA, what conclusion?"

[SimonHenrichsen]

Heh, the background music is from The Thing. Gotta love Charlie Brooker.

[casmith86]

@SimonHenrichsen That and waltz in black by the stranglers

[graemeoliver84]

There's lots of dangerous clots in America.

[siren7193]

All the hard headed people that are from the scum part of the US should watch these kinds of videos that show the truth, not the grammy, tony crappy something awards, not their lies that they call the news, not cribs, sweet 16 (my ass ) those kind of scum, not those criminal presidential campains that say "our soldiers are heroes" and what should say "our soldiers are mass murderers, rapists and we send them to do our dirty work" And they still wonder why we hate almost everyone in the US ?!

[ukpolemic]

Haha, I've never been more addicted to TV than when I was staying in the states.

[Monsterist76]

Charlie Brooker is ______ing brilliant. He makes me laugh my _____ off.

[watchamacarcess]

lol the dude didnt see wat was wrong with asking "do you do anal"

[tokando69]

I can't believe im actually thinking about Blankety Blank.

[2011MostDope]

XD "As soon as they step outside Chewbacca attacks them" and that fucking bloke hairy runs at him arrrh Charlie Brooker you make me giggle.

[greatestgod]

is that the theme tune from the thing in the background?

[outofslumber]

The Brits are really mastering the Fuck word and seeing its potential.

Nothing works quite like it. Despite a plethora of alternative words to fuck, nothing has quite that punch.

I fucking love it.

[CmdrTobs]

@outofslumber Fuck is mastered by the British from time. D.H Lawrence and back.

I tell you what we do like is 'ASS'. That is fun, I can't get enough of this /watch?v=oa5z77EI8y0

[outofslumber]

@CmdrTobs

You bet yer fucking ass!!!

[outofslumber]

Which is why the whole world should be keeping an eye on the fucking loonies!!!

They have nuclear weapons.

HELLO!!!!

[ifap007]

I love those cheesy shows, especially to catch a predator. Charlie Brooker is great

[Sachie63]

I'm American, and I don't like any of these shows!

[Sachie63]

PSYCH! 2:07

[SuperKaitie333]

TAKE THE CHOLORFOAM!!!!!!!!!!!

[PorkIsHalal]

20 Americans watched this.

[SurrealMarksman]

@PorkIsHalal and 877 Americans agree. :)

[peticco]

It really lloked like GTA Live

[cuntylishus]

Nothing irritates me more than the prescription drug ads on US tv (along with the ads for crappy for-profit universities and catering colleges!)

[novaflo339]

"....the baddie in the caddie" !!!

[villainandfox]

"all right you big american fucker!" haha

[BoJanglezzzzzz]

Wtf...I laughed so hard at chewbacca jumping out there. What the hell was that cop wearing??

[gera1262]

@BoJanglezzzzzz Ghillie suit.

[jaryd12345]

@BoJanglezzzzzz a Ghilie Suit. Often found being worn by US military in deep covert operations... or local cops busting nonces, either/or.

[cb71111]

One word- Grintegrity

[Sarcasmitron]

Wait, you need to be an agent of the police for it NOT to be entrapment? Isn't that like the definition of entrapment?

[TheJovanist]

Bernie Mac should be put on Perverted Justice for doing young boys in the butt hole.

[Singabus66]

@ 4:51 conan is on tv!!!

[mike13lowe]

Sleeper Cell was actually quite a good programme

[Archythegoth]

"one of the first things you notice abut americans is how layback and friendly they are. Allright you big american fucker" xDDDD beest line

[DucklingAuthority]

What's the music playing around 4:30?

[hifromrich]

@DucklingAuthority It's Waltzinblack by The Stranglers

[DucklingAuthority]

@hifromrich

I've been searching for that song for over a decade. Thank you. Thank you indeed.

[ukstevey]

blanking your blank lol

[ukstevey]

CB = GOD

[Billzor69]

I'm an American, and I love everything Brooker says.

[Sillmech]

It doesn't matter what country you come from, we can all agree that Charlie Brooker is fucking brilliant.

[wuzcloopin]

To catch a predator has definitely done a lot of good. These guys are sick, plain and simple.

[jackotheripper]

Chris Hansen is such a cunt, if he was British he'd be an avid Daily Mail reader.

[seonidh]

@jackotheripper daily mail reading landed gentry Tory who hunts poor people since they banned fox hunting.

[azzamalbritani]

@seonidh fuck poor people

[fosterslover]

The worst thing about US TV is that we don't get Charlie Brooker!

[dageezerboi]

i remember when this guy wrote for PCZone..defo one of the best and funniest reviewers..dont think that mags still around these days

[picketingemu]

brooker is just greate he makes fun of every thing like me i'm half ireish and half scottish i make fun of both

[JAStewart]

To Catch A Predator is a hilarious show. We invented a drinking game with about 40 categories on it.

[GunsOfThePhoenix]

Im American and I love Brooker. He is like a comedic version of John Stossel.

[getoutmefase]

"Chewbacka attacks them"

-I've never laughed that hard in my

[rubsley]

@getoutmefase mouth?

[markjartansson]

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[7gramrocks]

I am American, and I will say that Charlie Brooker is a goddamn genius. 

[sksnkton]

olright you big American fucker! =D 

[onehipdad]

I'm in Scotland this week and just discovered him last night on BBC-2 doing his take on the history of computers - hilarious! There's no denying though, the number of programs in the US that are ripoffs of British shows. Wonder when we'll see the American version of "Cowboy Builder"!

[graemeoliver84]

Chris Hansen is probably the closest thing America has to Jeremy Kyle, except not quite as odious.

[nonnynay]

Anyone notice the Bail Bonds sign in the background at the beginning? Damn right America is the land of the free.

[needabloodyname]

Charlie Brooker is a hero

[sayno2lolzisback]

Nothing is safe from Brooker's scathing eye. He hates everything!

[aztcqn]

temporary hangman's rights. That's funny.....

[Eshneh]

1:17 ro 1:40 XD

[refforendum]

I laughed so fucking hard at the doctor seuss comment, ahhaha, so true though

[JejunumJake]

The fact of the matter is that most Americans have learned to tune out sensationalism. I can't think of anyone who watches America's Most Wanted or COPS. They were popular back in the late 80s/early 90s when everyone had 3 lines of coke snorted up their nostrils.

[EbsNhexz]

@JejunumJake I take it you have collectively cut down to just one line now? a wider sense of sobriety but just enough stimulant induced paranoia to keep up that healthy fear of socialism, one advantage of the loss of Uncle Escobar I imagine.(joke,no animosity) Day time TV is the UK's, you need life threatening amounts of drugs to enjoy that shit. It reduces unemployment though.

[TP1988]

5:05 onwards - HA!

[KyonoRocks]

Hahaha the Dr Zeuss bit...

[DynamicScherzo]

I do find it ironic that Charlie Brooker complains so much about the media and yet it is that very thing that has made him so successful.

Ah well, least he's using it to do good. He's awesome :D

[Jman21UK]

haaa mace to the face

[MVGmatt]

"allright you big american fucker" ha, ha,ha,ha

[medley]

The Thing theme at the start!

[wizzilu]

90% of American TV is shit, utter shit.

American comedy is dire, thank god Britain makes their own because I love it!

[kaimon96]

I saw a billboard of delicious flavor.

Thumbs up if you did too :).

[squonkynut]

John "Colgate Smile Perma-tan" Burnell is awesome!

[noisepuppet]

Waltzinblack!

[Soundfrequency]

There was a spin of series for "To Catch a Predator", in which they leave a pile of money in the street with a sign saying "Please take me" next to it, and if anyone takes it they jump out and arrest them, I think they called themselves "Corrupted Justice"

[birdman3120]

Those adverts are rediculous, I can't believe they scare people like that into buying their products. Then there is that To Catch A Predator, I can't believe that is actually aired.

[birdman3120]

Like a live action version of Grand Theft Auto :-D

[southsydney]

chris hansen is badass

[atomicbreaker]

The main problem I have with American shows is that they always try to hype things up needlessly. Unfortunately UK shows do that as well, the x factor being the main culprit for years.

[superh13]

Did anyone notice the score from Carpenter's The Thing playing in the background? :)

[gabel1337]

@superh13 I did! That score is awesome.

[philthepile]

Apparently un-ironic title "Pervered Justice"

That's what a parody of a show like Catching Online Predators would be called. Unbelievable.

[SocialistAmerican]

I love when Brooker examines America. It's always gold!

[whb786]

Brooker is God

[flyoverangel]

American TV ,which is almost solely produced in NY and LA , has as much to do with my life as Billie Piper playing a high class whore does to someone living in the Lake Country.

[birdman3120]

@flyoverangel The Lake Country?

[flyoverangel]

@birdman3120 More proof that I shouldn't try to make analogies w/ my poor american knowledge of geography... sorry.

[birdman3120]

@flyoverangel Did you mean the Lake District?

[Teckniphobia]

As an American, I can explain why the whiplash of fearmongering and lightheartedness doesn't drive us insane. We just don't have alot of sanity to start with.

[Explosiveelm]

@Teckniphobia Actually, we are bombarded with it so heavily at such a young age that we are practically desensitized at birth.

[Zombievomit]

@Teckniphobia Alright? Ya big american fucker!

[lephong]

i see psych billboard!

[Explosiveelm]

Is the ghillie suit necessary?

[shakswak]

@Explosiveelm abso-not-ly!

[ohdoshutit]

tv is all kinds of falseness splattered with sociopaths. modern day plato's cave. i don't mind sociopaths, just tv i can't stand.

[chocomog35]

God Bless Charlie Brooker. Also, as a sidenote, who indeed has never blanked a blank?

[southsydney]

i love to catch a predator. chris hansen is a jedi.

[kimberlymarie21990]

I'm American and I love this.

[Dhammond5]

Blanking you Blank,lol

[AbbeyNormal]

I don't understand why we should be asking our doctor about a particular medication. Doesn't the doctor know what medications we should be taking?

[Nosteratees]

I really wish I hadn't been taking a slurp of lager at 5:58. What a bloody mess.

[mattyreynolds1990]

Before any americans think brooker is picking on them. You should watch all his stuff. He take the piss out of british tv alot. Anything that is weird and he will have his say on it

[existenceisrelative]

@mattyreynolds1990 Somebody needs to be picking on us for fuck's sake. Maybe if the rest of the world makes us made enough we'll learn where the rest of it is!

[mattyreynolds1990]

@existenceisrelative ?

[MCSubliminalSol]

@mattyreynolds1990 Im American and love him, he pontificates his points really well. Couldnt be more correct

[redvelvetunderground]

@mattyreynolds1990 We Americans NEED the piss taken out of us on a regular fucking basis. I take my hat off to Charlie fucking Brooker.

[Furkin44]

@mattyreynolds1990 I don't think he's picking on us, I think he has us pegged 100%. He seems like a very practical man who says what most of us are already thinking.

[outofslumber]

@Furkin44

I can tell you most Brits think of America this way. Any Brit thats actually saw a Fox News snippet for example goes away shocked, appalled and deeply disturbed.

Not me though. Im well aware Fox News is just some zany comedy show!!

[llamazaresj]

@outofslumber

Yeah, I remember switching on Fox News the first time and I thought I was on a comedy channel. I watched for some minutes and thought it was hilarious. Then at some time I noticed they were serious.

[The3rdPlateau]

@mattyreynolds1990 indeed...plus as an American, our TV sucks! I mean it's disgraceful! So I think american netoworks deserve his criticism...tho so do a few british ones. but we're worse on this side of the atlantic

[lauracida]

@The3rdPlateau yeah in britain you see a LOT of shit tv as well (which brooker covers as well ofc). i come from spain, and same there, tons of rubbish. and italian TV is as disgraceful as american tv, or worse. i think the problem is money, not nationality...

cheers for the upload :)

[IamTheRealSolidSnerk]

Doug Heffernan 0:43 ?

[ProjectLonely]

Charlie Brooker is awesome!

[tinyrebellion]

doctor fucking seuss

[RufusaurusDex]

What the fuck was chewbacca doing on to catch a predator?!

[Knarkill000]

Discovery, History Channel, HBO period.

[meercat666]

Whats that circus music in the background?

[nrvslaaftr]

i love chris hansen!

[zomgthesoftness]

This guy is such a politically incorrect asshole. Yet, I think he's awesome. :D

[DanceLikeANitwit]

@zomgthesoftness How so?

[daveibukun]

"i came back here to tell you i wasn't going to be here" classic.

[billydeeuk]

I looooooooooooooooovvvvvvvvvvvv­vvvvvr Wildest Police Home Videos

[PSXDubai12]

lol Dr Seuss oh Brooker lol

[killanotterinasecond]

ahaha the chewbacca bit made me spit out my tea. at work. damn you brooker.

[SubconsciousAlive]

Do you think any of those cops posing as young children have ever accidentally met up with each other?

[sajorojas1]

Why does this guy have such a hard-on for criticizing American everything? It's like shooting fish in a barrel.

[OrangeJuice101]

@sajorojas1 It's not just American TV, but TV in general.

This man is a God.

[PSXDubai12]

@sajorojas1 well because your TV is utter crud, oh he doesn't only do American TV he does TV in general.

[sajorojas1]

@PSXDubai12 I noticed that right after I'd posted my comment, but couldn't delete it. And like I said, it's too easy to make fun of what everyone knows to be "utter crud". You know, my TV, as you put it. I don't watch any of those shows, but I do own a TV, so I take full responsibility for all past crud and crud-to-be.

[PSXDubai12]

@sajorojas1 so i guess you play videogames instead :)

[sajorojas1]

@PSXDubai12 Only the cruddy ones

[sami2503]

@sajorojas1 he critisizes everything, including british tv

[neilcheeseburger]

@sami2503 I realize now how whiny I sounded when I posted that. Or is it whingy? Let's call the whole thing off. I watched some of his other videos and have now fallen under his charming spell. God is he brutal. "Having f-----d Blair in the arse on national television, Jamie's next trick was getting a blowjob off David Cameron." Ok, you win. Makes me want to hear him criticize my people more, as long as it's as frank as that.

[Peadarisback]

it's not free it's just propaganda.

It's a two party state...

with a biased media...

Anyway Charlie Brooker rocks

[DrThunder88]

"...So the minute they step outside, Chewbacca attacks them."

Why the Ghille suit? Other than for inviting hilarious comments, I mean.

[xthatfatguyx]

ha ha ha! now you fuckers across the pond know why we're sooooo fucked up! Suicide pills, simulated rape, and midget pedophiles. Just another day in America.

[PurushaDesa]

"The baddie in the caddy

Led the officers on a wild chase

But paid the price

Getting maced in the face."

LMAO! He took the gateau to the chateau... yoooooou twat!

[olihill101]

AHAHAHA 'high octane shit'

[olihill101]

AHAHAHA 'high octane shit'

[olihill101]

AHAHAHA 'high octane shit'

[mforce99]

lol @ the music to The Thing

[comeonewtf]

haha he put a laugh track to dateline nbc shit!

[toonuraccoon]

That women parked in front of a fire hydrant.

[StephenUK1983]

5:58 OMFG!!

[benanr90]

i loved to catch a predator!!!

[LucyLizard87]

"The baddy in the caddy let the officers on a wild chase

But paid the price getting maced in the face"

Words can't express the LOL

[BastetGreyP]

I also cracked up at that xD

[Coolguyrob2006]

i'm much more proud of british TV, only the good stuff makes it, but all US TV makes it across even the shit stuff

[swordhunter12]

If British TV only allows good shows then why does Eastenders exist?

[kingcroak]

@swordhunter12 Doesn't mean we eliminate shit tv.

[thomasimon]

I loved the commercials for medicine when I was there. First they praise it all the way up to heaven, but then comes half a minute of side-effects, there even was one that said it could cause strokes and even heartfailures for certain people....

[squidmonkey1997]

Chubacca attacks them

[cloud9backpacker]

The 'Perverted justice' volunteers. Definitely concerned citizens and certainly not odd-ball voyeurs, rabidly hunting perverts because of some sort of sub-concious guilt for the feelings they have. Any suggestion otherwise would be callous and unfounded. Right?

[Staszek1987050806]

yes and it all real :) I mean real guys would step out the moment they saw the tv crew XD:) fucking shit

[YouFailBigTime123]

@7:31 seriously wtf?

[getsomenutz]

He actually likes some things lol. Yeah he has a massive hard on for the wire, thinks it's the best thing since the orgasm.

[mrkmoua]

Lol, Charlie Brooker sooo rocks!!!

[Denji2006]

It is true though. Most of it is just complete cheaply processed garbage now. You can't flick a channel anymore without coming across at least 3 different "reality shows". If I'm going to watch any show, I would rather see actors and a script. Not that "gotcha!" bullshit or an hour of people making total asses of themselves claiming "real" when most are just low budget actors..

[simoncase]

He really likes The Wire, said so in his Guardian column

[triplexxxsatyr]

Quickly becoming a fan of his diatribes and dry wit observations.

Awesome.

[furQ]

chewbaccattacker

[elfbride]

I am so sick of what passes for American television... I hardly watch tv at all anymore. Know what? I'm a much happier person for it! I've dealt with YEARS of anxiety and depression. I stopped watching the news and about 99% of commercial tv. I feel GGGGREAT! Connection?

[prodigychild1988]

I think so... I dealt with the same problem. I stopped watching the news, and most TV, and now I'm so happy and content. American TV is everything he just claimed.

[elfbride]

@prodigychild1988 It got so bad that I seriously considered dropping cable altogether. But decided to keep it...ONCE IN A WHILE there's something on worth watching.