Screenwipe - Idea

Clip from Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe on BBC4.

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• screenwipe
• bbc
• bbc4
• charlie
• brooker
• idea
• television
• tv

[bubbagump562001]

Can you say "shit" and "fuck" on British TV? Just curious, that only happens on special prime time or premium cable movie channels in America (I think, I can't afford either -_- )

[Octospherics]

@bubbagump562001 The basic rule is: yes after 9pm. They are still meant to warn you before the program starts and sometimes they bleep it anyway, though.

[kisbie]

Anyone get the feeling that he is basically telling the story of the production behind the Nathan Barley sitcom in this clip?

[Octospherics]

I think it's far more likely to be based on the ill-fated 2001 TV series version of TVGoHome.

[kateinkigali]

FYI I work in tv and this is not a comedy piece

[tellyisrubbish]

get that Shitpeas on the telly.

[FlatmansKitten]

Barry Shitpeas' Chuckle Castle would be the greatest thing ever produced if it existed.

[WackdProductions]

So, if this is how it works, how did Screeenwipe make it on the air relatively unscathed? Or does Brooker secretly think his show is crap and stick around for the paycheck?

[TheAkatsuki357]

never realized until he said it

Charlies does look like a white Laurence Fishburne

[RandomPersimmon]

This doesn't happen with books... does it?

If it does... I worry for my manuscript... TT^TT

[zionravescene]

@Misishaxi Sometimes Charlie does go uncensored on the F-bombs, but that's only to emphasise a particularly serious point that any bleeping is likely to undermine. A particularly good example was during an understandably grim moment in his review of The Baby Mind Reader.

[kisbie]

@Misishaxi I'm not sure it was ever meant to be funny in hindsight. Brooker and Morris were deliberately shitting on some of their biggest fans with those characters.

[kisbie]

@Misishaxi The bleeps are so short the words essentially sound like "fu-bleep-ck". Noone else on Screenwipe is bleeped, no matter how potty mouthed they get.

[TheEdPond]

So incisive! Can't think of many people who blend great comedy with informative lectures so well.

Wish some more TV execs could actually listen to this guy and change their godawful policies

[megawutt]

Mike Bradley (the idea) surely suffers alot filming Screenwipe.

[Misishaxi]

@bubbagump562001 You'll hear the F word on Screenwipe occasionally. Charlie just bleeps his own F-bombs because he thinks it makes them sound funnier.