Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe - BBC2 NI Thursdays @ 10pm

Welsh Megaman · 27-01-2013 09:15PM #1

Starting this Thursday...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qh6w4

bizmark · 27-01-2013 09:27PM

His most recent 2012 review wasn't so funny but generally ever since the days of pc zone this guy is well worth watching / reading

Mr.Saturn · 28-01-2013 02:14PM

Judging by the format, he's also managed to consolidate You Have Been Watching into it.

Anybody have any scoop on 10 O'Clock Live? There was rumblings of it back in June, linked in with the Jimmy Carr business, and his likeliness to return, but it's all gone hush, seemingly. This is the only reference Google's got.

mike65 · 28-01-2013 02:22PM

Also on other BBC variations.

GTR63 · 31-01-2013 10:34PM

This is on in half an hour, just giving it a bump as a reminder.

dmcg90 · 31-01-2013 11:40PM

I caught a bit, was alright! Didn't think he would be interviewing people but that part kind of worked.

mike65 · 01-02-2013 12:08AM

I Dug Stanhope

I_smell_fear · 01-02-2013 12:12AM

Stanhopes joke at Britain rebuilding its 1100 year old road system after the WWII bombings as a "spit in the face to Hitler" was probably the highlight for me.

tdv123 · 01-02-2013 02:43AM

Pretty good this, one of the best things he's done for a while.

phasers · 01-02-2013 09:56AM

the film review bit was awful, it felt really awkward. The girl barry ****peas is really annoying too. The rest was good though, I'll definitely be watching again.

Das Kitty · 01-02-2013 09:59AM

I like the female Barry ****peas! I dunno, it's just her delivery and how close to some real life people I know she is.

That whole section about Africa was brilliant. Although I must admit I may have already had tears streaming down my face over the section about "Splash" which might have made Africa funnier.

I liked him reading out people's sneering at Linda Barker.

Movie review bit, blah.

Basq · 01-02-2013 11:38AM

Balls... forgot about this!

No repeat either... balls to it!

phasers · 01-02-2013 01:10PM

I'm sure it's available, eh... online... via completely legal means...

Funglegunk · 01-02-2013 01:39PM

Enjoyed it a lot. Probably not as good as Screenwipe but as this is a weekly show there is much less time to prepare the sort of segments that were the great thing about that show. Will keep watching definitely, Charlie Brooker is one of the best things on TV.

Agricola · 01-02-2013 02:12PM

Enjoyed this. Even the very short review of Django Unchained had more depth than Claudia Wonkleman's Film 2013.

The Africa section was hilarious. "Giant vagina monsters"

Tipsy McSwagger · 01-02-2013 03:00PM

Brilliant, highlight was either Lance Armstrong dropping the ball or Prince Harry's pen.

Psychedelic · 01-02-2013 03:01PM

I could listen to Brooker for hours, so fcking funny. Didn't like the 'your comments' section.

lertsnim · 01-02-2013 03:35PM

That was very good. Nice to have it for a few weeks. It is also being shown on the BBC HD channel.

That Splash programme looks like some god awful ****e.

briany · 01-02-2013 07:46PM

An enjoyable programme but not that much different to his old Screenwipe series. Not that I'm complaining because Screenwipe was great. I expect the Wipe is just to give Brooker the scope to satirise whatever he wants which will probably be grotesque reality TV and creepy news media shenanigans in the main with the odd video game/music/movie/magazine/internet bits thrown in. It will not be an even smorgasboard of satire as some had hoped it might be.

Best part of the episode was the American gun control segment. That was both hilarious and chilling in equal measure, and for different reasons.

Welsh Megaman · 01-02-2013 10:05PM

Very good stuff, although I could live without the 'Your Comments' section and Philomena Cunk.

pixelburp · 02-02-2013 12:22AM

I didn't even know 'Splash' existed before watching Weekly Wipe; it's kind of unfair really because all Brooker has to do is show some clips and let the toe-curling awfulness speak for itself.

GTR63 · 04-02-2013 02:55PM

Basq wrote: »

Balls... forgot about this!

No repeat either... balls to it!

Hope this is useful.

Mod Snip: Full episode embedding not allowed, sorry.

04-02-2013 03:23PM

I do wish he would get rid of the other people - that woman was one of the most annoying aspects of 2012-wipe, so the thought of having her as a weekly regular is disappointing. Thankfully I intend to stream, just so I can skip passed the segments I dislike.

cloud493 · 06-02-2013 05:51PM

Barry is amazing though

ScrubsfanChris · 07-02-2013 02:39AM

lertsnim wrote: »

That Splash programme looks like some god awful ****e.

"Falling doesn't get tougher than this!"

Spat my drink out laughing

briany · 07-02-2013 06:27PM

Re: Splash, I can't fathom why Omid Djalili was on it. Always thought he was a reasonably respected comic and didn't need to resort to that kind of work on such a low grade show. Maybe he was doing it for charity, maybe he just loves diving, I don't know, but I think that it cheapens his name.

I do wish he would get rid of the other people - that woman was one of the most annoying aspects of 2012-wipe, so the thought of having her as a weekly regular is disappointing. Thankfully I intend to stream, just so I can skip passed the segments I dislike.

I think she's OK. I understand why she's in there. She's a parody of the many vacuous celebrity Twitteristas and bloggers out there giving their hollow opinions while posing as journalists and trying to sound insightful even though they're anything but. Exactly the kind of person that Brooker has loved to take piss out off since Screenwipe S01E01.

Dozen Wicked Words · 07-02-2013 11:32PM

Don't know why they need to bleep the swear words at 10 o'clock in the evening. If it was in a film/drama at this time, they would happily curse away. Charlie Brooker says fúck a couple of times and it gets bleeped.

ScrubsfanChris · 07-02-2013 11:59PM

In comedies, bleeps are funnier than the actual swear I think (Arrested Development/Father Ted)

mike65 · 08-02-2013 12:35AM

Nice Bob Mali references tonight!

lertsnim · 08-02-2013 01:00AM

mike65 wrote: »

Nice Bob Mali references tonight!

That's Mali for you

briany · 08-02-2013 03:55AM

I think that the Doug Stanhope segments have been the highlight so far, as they have been since he started appearing. I know that it's mostly material lifted directly from his standup act but it's no less hilarious for it and it's basically tailor made for the show's cynical world view.