I didn't watch that programme but wouldn't it be funny if they just had a cup of tea and a few biscuits and then talk about what they were supposed to have done.:D
Stayed up and watched it in the end! Always love charlie's look back at the year... can't wait for weekly wipe (I'm assuming it's like a conglomeration of screenwipe, newswipe and gameswipe.)
I thoroughly enjoyed, as I said before, but the problem with the yearly one, is it inevitably just shows stuff we've seen ridiculed elsewhere before, which is why we need the weekly show.
8 out of 10 cats basically covered it all first, so it didn't pack so much of a punch sadly. Still, looking forward to weekly wipe!
Difference being that Charlie Brooke is funny and Jimmy Carr is not.
I find 8 Out of 10 Cats to be an infuriatingly overrated panel show anymore of which Sean Lock is the only funny and redeeming feature. I'm also bewildered during the round when a random, obscure clip from the news or wherever is shown and nothing is said about it - no questions asked about it as part of the quiz or anything.
I enjoyed this last night, though I agree with others who said that Charlie has lost a lot of his bite. Just check out some of the early episodes of Screenwipe and you can see how much more benign and reserved he's become over the years. I don't know if his move from BBC4 to BBC2 has forced him into that position or if he's genuinely just changed in his outlook.
Nevertheless, I thought last night's stuff was good. He was pretty fair on the Margaret Thatcher stuff, I thought. And he did a good job in skewering the preposterous Royal Baby rolling news coverage.
The highlight for me was Doug Stanhope's segments though. Particularly the stuff on the Oklahoma hurricane - 'thanking the Lord that their neighbours were killed and not them' pretty much sums it up doesn't it?
I thought it was terrific. Perhaps he wasn't so biting as he used to be, but that suits the mood of the nation perfectly in my opinion. I've given up being angry about most of the crap, now I'm just jaded, disillusioned and bored.
There were some great throwaway lines, so many that I'm tempted to watch it again, and there's not many programmes around that do that for me.
I think we've become a nation of cynics, and Charlie shows us why. A diet of bullshit 24/7 for 365 days a year.
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bugger that, give him five minutes every night on the six o'clock news you bastards!!!
Yeah, I'll look forward to that........
Really liked the line "we don't have a President Zuma, have we been taken over by the Zumerians?!"
Also the clip of a guy saying he thought the Royal baby would be black
so it has! for some reason my brain just filed it under "newswipe."
he wasn't as surprised now as he was when the asteroid came though
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7umaUfL5ns
Sex Box?
This was really a thing?
How did I miss that?
It's the sort of idea I'd expect to see Alan Partridge come up with to a BBC exec.
I find 8 Out of 10 Cats to be an infuriatingly overrated panel show anymore of which Sean Lock is the only funny and redeeming feature. I'm also bewildered during the round when a random, obscure clip from the news or wherever is shown and nothing is said about it - no questions asked about it as part of the quiz or anything.
The smug little twerp is flogging a dead horse. It is money for old rope.
Nevertheless, I thought last night's stuff was good. He was pretty fair on the Margaret Thatcher stuff, I thought. And he did a good job in skewering the preposterous Royal Baby rolling news coverage.
The highlight for me was Doug Stanhope's segments though. Particularly the stuff on the Oklahoma hurricane - 'thanking the Lord that their neighbours were killed and not them' pretty much sums it up doesn't it?
There were some great throwaway lines, so many that I'm tempted to watch it again, and there's not many programmes around that do that for me.
I think we've become a nation of cynics, and Charlie shows us why. A diet of bullshit 24/7 for 365 days a year.