Charlie Brooker & David Mitchell - 10 O'Clock live on Channel 4

Skid

Trailer for new Channel 4 current affairs series starting early 2011 featuring David Mitchell, Charlie Brooker, Jimmy Carr and Lauren Laverne.

Looks interesting, same line up as Channel 4's recent Alternative Election Night.

colinod0806

looking forward to this. even if it isn't as good as it should be it will probably be better than anything it clashes with.

Sir Gallagher

Charlie Brooker-Yay, Jimmy Carr and his crap little put on laugh- Nay

Basq

Great line-up.. but uhhh... who told Lauren Laverne she was funny?!

KeanSeenan

Laverne always seems to be pregnant whenever she's on TV, maybe she's getting the jobs through sympathy.

Minstrel27

Sir Gallagher wrote: »

Charlie Brooker-Yay, Jimmy Carr and his crap little put on laugh- Nay

Apparently it is a real laugh. Friend of mine heard him laughing amongst friends in a pub in Montreal this year.

alastair_doom

Sir Gallagher wrote: »

Charlie Brooker-Yay, Jimmy Carr and his crap little put on laugh- Nay

Big fan of Brooker and Mitchell, but Brooker was abysmal on the Alternative Election Night and Mitchell wasn't much better. Carr carried that show for 5 hours.

Sir Gallagher

Minstrel27 wrote: »

Apparently it is a real laugh. Friend of mine heard him laughing amongst friends in a pub in Montreal this year.

I'm sure it's real but i've noticed any show he's on nowadays he seems to be forcing it out more and more to completely sh!t jokes.

Skid

Probably a case of too many cooks. In the election programme they all did their own segments and there was no real continuity.

I wish Channel 4 would just give Charlie Brooker his own weekly show and let him get on with it.

Having said that, It could be good, definitely worth a look. David Mitchell is always good value too.

Namabillion

David Mitchell - brilliant.

Mr.Nice Guy

I'll watch anything with Brooker or Mitchell so this sounds good.

phasers

Jimmy Carr is the only one there who can handle live television, which was all too obvious on the election programme. I'll give it a shot but not optimistic.

Channel 4 don't seem to get Charlie Brooker imo, they keep putting him in programmes that don't suit his style.

deereidy

couldn't agree more, the best things he's ever done were definitly screenwipe, newswipe and dead set- stuff he came up with by himself.

panda100

I'm a huge Brooker fan but he's been awful on all the panel-type show's. He always looks really uncomfortable,like he doesn't really belong. David Mitchell has really grown on me over the last few years, so Im really looking forward to this programme.

Syferus

It's always amused me that despite the caricature of American comedy as unfunny, bland and lacking the same biting wit of their British counterparts - and let's be fair, in many cases it was justified - American current affairs comedy has been head and shoulders above any of the British offerings for at least the past decade. I'm not talknig panel shows here, but even then I'd put The Daily Show above the best of those. On that, anyone remember that Jason Manford abortion a few years back? Urgh.

Charlie Brooker can be very good but I've been feeling he's been way too over-exposed lately and indeed the same can be said for Mitchell. Carr is a one-liner machine who always comes off as vaguely robotic to me. All three obviously can be funny, but none of them have ever shown a brilliant enough grasp on current affairs of any hue that would make me think I'd be overly interested in their musings on politics or its ilk. I get the sad feeling thinking about it that might be another forgetable vehicle for comedians to funnel money to their mostly un-funny showbiz friends.

A good cast, but if it turns into just another panel show with different bells and whistles then forget it, please, just forget it.

expectationlost

Laverne is witty but not comedian, if its it attempt to do a daily show then what matters is how many staff they have watching and clipping video.