I'd never heard of Charlie Brooker until last weekend, when I saw his BBC review show Screenwipe for the first time, and now I want his job. Here he is eviscerating My Super Sweet 16:
It doesn't hurt that the English have some of the best insults.
Fortunately for whining snotface, the party goes with a bang: she enters looking every inch the cosseted flesh-waste she is, and she and her nauseating idiot scumbag friends party on into the night, dancing, shrieking, acting like pillocks, and generally making you feel like getting down on your knees and praying for a nuclear holocaust.
I want everyone’s job, if they actually get paid to be creative in some way, especially if it’s some way that involves writing, or, you know, yapping into a camera.
The quote gets the narrative slightly wrong, though. It’s ‘nauseating idiot scumbag friends’, rather than simply ‘irritating friends’.
To be fair, I don’t think the Brits like ANY American reality TV. To be even fairer, I can’t see any reason they should.
My wife told me last night there’s going to be a ROCK OF LOVE III. Can even the most desperate TV producers scrape up yet another houseful of skanks stupid and gullible enough to take Bret Michaels’ romantic whining seriously, after he’s tanked two previous TV initiated relationships? Probably. After all, once you’ve been on ROCK OF LOVE, you’re a lock to get on I LOVE MONEY…
A friend had what I consider to be a brilliant idea. Sites such as YouTube need a commentary track feature.
Imagine that you see something on YouTube that you want to comment on. Perhaps it’s something that you like and you want to rave over it. Or perhaps it’s something you want to explain. Or perhaps you want to MST3K it.
So, you add a commentary track. You record this yourself using your own PC mic as the YouTube file is playing. This can then be played back by others, and it tracks with the file, so you get to hear both the original and your commentary audio.
I would use the shit out of this feature. And, hopefully, Pete would too.
I keep telling my students (high school freshmen) that the reason they’re all such a bunch of confrontational, self-absorbed, outspoken little shits is because they think the real world is a reality TV show and every offense to their sacred beings must be settled as loudly as possible and with threats of a lawsuit.
I was thinking this before he said it: “In summary, our world is doomed.”
That was awesome, thank you for the link to the video.
Oy. I wrote a post about this show a while back, but this guy did a much better job.
Hunt down some “Brass Eye” too. Then, when you’re ready, I’ll send you “Nathan Barley,” as that’s what happens when the guy behind “Screenwipe” and the guy behind “Brass Eye” get together…
I think you would be very good at that, Pete…give it the old Yankee spin. =)