Charlie Brooker's 'Half A Decade' Wipe! [BBC2]

Basq

Good news.. finally, after a few years off..

Charlie Brooker's 'half a decade' wipe! - 30 December on BBC2.

Harry Palmr

Hmmm, is he too fat rich and middle aged to be cutting and clever? Tune in and find out!

eljono

Basq wrote: »

Good news.. finally, after a few years off..

Charlie Brooker's 'half a decade' wipe! - 30 December on BBC2.

Excellent!

Tom Mann Centuria

Hope it's better than the last few black mirrors.

Agent Coulson

Fake anger these days from a near 50 year old rich man married to a hot wife who named one of their kids Huxley Booker Huq no thanks.

Basq

Disappointed to say this is just a best of 2010-2015 Wipe..

Harry Palmr

Is there another? I suppose not. Frankie Boyle is on before, which might be spleneticly enjoyable.

Agricola

2016 wipe is on after this. I don't recall it, but since 2016 was a vintage year for satire, it must be great and am looking forward to it tonight.

Vic_08

Agricola wrote: »

2016 wipe is on after this. I don't recall it, but since 2016 was a vintage year for satire, it must be great and am looking forward to it tonight.

FYI this is only being shown on BBC2 England (at 12.15am). BBC2 NI and Wales variations have rugby on earlier and only the 2010-15 Wipe compilation is showing.

fryup

will Cunk be in it?

Vic_08

fryup wrote: »

will Cunk be in it?

One is edited highlights of previous shows the other is a straight repeat of the 2016 edition she was in, so yes.

fryup

a rehash of previous editions? :rolleyes: fek it i'll give it a miss

Skid X

Nice to see some of the best bits again, some of the Wipe was brilliant (in all its incarnations).

Nothing like it on television now, sadly. Black Mirror has a lot to answer for.

Harry Palmr

Brooker is back for Covid 19

Charlie Brooker to return to BBC with lockdown special Antiviral Wipe

This will be first of his award-winning Wipe series since 2016, and will also feature regulars Philomena Cunk and Barry Shoitpeas

“The BBC asked me to supply a quote for the press release,” said Brooker, “which is what you’re reading now.”

No date yet.

Harry Palmr

Bump for this TX on next Thursday at 9 PM on BBC TWo followed by Philomena Cunk best/worst bits.

Mr.Nice Guy

Guardian interview with him today where he talks a bit about the new Wipe:

Hollywood and the West End might be comatose, but Wipe marches on. Brooker was lucky to have a literal in-house production team that included Huq and a documentary-maker who has been helping with childcare and staying in a spare room. He also has the familiar sofa rescued from the studio when the show finished. “The only difference is that people have to keep running off to deal with a crying baby or the internet goes down or we have to synchronise our toilet breaks. Other than that, it’s surprisingly seamless.”

The virus may seem like a tough topic for Wipe, but Brooker says: “Obviously we’re mindful of the fact that this is an extreme time for everybody, but hopefully we’re getting it right tonally. I hope we’re not being patronising. It’s not kid gloves. There’s a bit of gallows humour in there. I think that’s important and I think that’s human and I think that’s cathartic, and you just have to gauge it right. There are things to laugh at and there are things to question.”

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/may/13/charlie-brooker-i-assumed-i-would-end-up-stumbling-through-rubble-eating-rats-this-confirms-it

Welsh Megaman

Bump dat thread!

Skid X

Konnie Huq there. possibly her first appearance with Charlie.

Her previous Wipe work was The Big Wee (back when they weren't married)

Skid X

"What's your background?" :pac:

ERG89

Those Moments of Wonder skits are always painfully unfunny to me.

Welsh Megaman

Matt Hancock, ‘Your sister’s first boyfriend with a car.’

JoeExotic81

ERG89 wrote: »

Those Moments of Wonder skits are always painfully unfunny to me.

They're horrific.

Nice to see Charlie back but it was more misses than hits.

nomdeboardie

Retrospective thank to Harry Palmr for headsup, though I didn't see it until afterwards and luckily found out by chance just before screening

*follows thread in case there's another epidsode in 5-10 years...for alien invasion or whatever*

ThunbergsAreGo

Any repeat on?

fryup

ERG89 wrote: »

Those Moments of Wonder skits are always painfully unfunny to me.

they're my highlight,

comedy is subjective i suppose

byte

ThunbergsAreGo wrote: »

Any repeat on?

11pm on Sunday night on BBC 2

Welsh Megaman

Disappointed though that he didn’t say those immortal words...


‘A bit like your Mum’.

eljono

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Disappointed though that he didn’t say those immortal words...


‘A bit like your Mum’.

I was also waiting for this

seamusk84

That was the best TV I have seen in months. Bloody hilarious.

Wish he did it weekly for the duration of the crises.

Acosta

Had a few very funny moments but overall not that great

Treppen

Ya it was a bit funny.

Not great though, he needs to do it again properly with more content. The Boris thing was tiring and overdone... and then it was done all again

nomdeboardie

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Disappointed though that he didn’t say those immortal words...


‘A bit like your Mum’.

But he's "A 49 YEAR-OLD MAN"! :pac:

Basq

Loved it.. great to have 'Wipe' back on our screens!

Though lose Barry and Philomena.. although 'Moments Of Wonder' was decent.

fryup

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Disappointed though that he didn’t say those immortal words.....‘A bit like your Mum’.

nomdeboardie wrote: »

But he's "A 49 YEAR-OLD MAN"! :pac:

so ????????

nomdeboardie

fryup wrote: »

so ????????

After every 'schoolboy humour' joke/insult he was shamefully & dejectedly adding something like "I'm a 49-year old man", "I'm almost 50"

Hrududu

fryup wrote: »

so ????????

That was one of his running gags in the latest episode. He'd say something silly and follow up with a deadpan "I'm 49", or "I'll be 50 this year."

Welsh Megaman

Chris Whitty, ‘Tintin prematurely aged after watching his dog drown‘.

Mr.Nice Guy

Thought it was great. I saw an interview with him where he said he hoped he'd give people a few moments where they laughed or even smiled, and there were plenty of those for me anyway.

Loved the 'happy birthday twice' bit.

Hrududu

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

Loved the 'happy birthday twice' bit.

Yeah that made me laugh out loud. I liked it. I had low expectations going in as I knew it was filmed at home etc. So I thought it would be nowhere near as good as a normal wipe. But I enjoyed it.

gmisk

That was really good, loved Cunk as usual.
Some cracking lines.
The description of Matt Hancock as "your sisters first boyfriend with a car" was hilariously spot on.
As was "The first prime minister to die in office since Gordon Brown"

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Matt Hancock, ‘Your sister’s first boyfriend with a car.’

That was gold. I could listen to Brooker describe people forever*. Also Cunk saying about 5G causing coronavirus "but the mainstream media's trying to cover that up just because it isn't true.". And other hilarious bits that people have already said.

*favourite ever descriptions include calling David Cameron "Primetroid David Camnatron", calling David Cameron "Iggle Piggle" and describing Jim Branning from Eastenders as "looking like a 95 year old Thom Yorke".

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

"King Elizabeth the Queen".

And the giant NHS bus.

cozar

If john Lennon heard the imagine singalong he would have given Mark Chapman his coordinates 😂

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Did anyone notice the ‘UH!’ mug on his coffee table? Based on this clip from an earlier Wipe episode:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqGvOzA3mCw

fryup

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

Disappointed though that he didn’t say those immortal words...

‘A bit like your Mum’.

but at least he did end it with....."now go away"

the purple tin

'Happy birthday to you, twice'

Irish Gunner

'you sound like an expert what's your background' :-)

https://m.facebook.com/bbccomedy/videos/1700441393413164/

adrian522

I thought it was excellent though you'd miss Doug Stanhope.

the purple tin

The Cunk show afterwards was funny as well.
She is funny in small doses so it was good to have the three other people to keep it fresh.

fryup

i enjoyed it, best one ever i think

they were some killer lines...

Re: Philip Schofield - "the nation's favourite morning wingman came out just as the government was asking us to stay in" :pac:

"stay away from her majesty" asking the signwriter to keep her social distance :pac:

Cunk - "we were asked to copy what people in europe were doing which was impossible as they were all indoors" :pac:

Cunk - "herd immunity is when something passes through the population and then dies out like fidget spinners" :pac:

Skid X

Did anyone else go down a Wipe shaped Rabbit Hole on Youtube after watching the new show?

There are some great clips on there, it has aged well