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Charlie Brooker Is Having A Baby… HOW DARE HE BE HAPPY?!

December 15th, 2011 By Mof Gimmers

People are really, very very stupid. They’ve always fallen for the oldest trick in the book and, wanting to eschew the popular kids and good-looking folk, they’ve adored those who trade in false-modesty. The ‘I’m crap like you too!’ brigade.

Then, best of all, when the facade slips, the falsely modest get a hot girlfriend and have the temerity to be happy and in love. This sends fans into a jealous slump, picking holes in the work of their former fave. They’ve changed! They’re not as funny as they used to be! How dare they hang around with celebrities!

In other news, Charlie Brooker is about to become a father to a shrieking baby with Konnie Huq who he loves more than all of you goons put together. Awww!

Creased or Folded? hecklerspray Tells You the Way it is

August 4th, 2012 By Chris Laverty

Holidays and mini-breaks.

Folded:

The BBC (for having the good sense to show Point Break last Sunday as a Patrick Swayze tribute. Roadhouse next please)
Slovenia (radical)
Free Batman: Arkham Asylum downloads (only map packs, but they are gratis so stop complaining)
Saturday morning at the movies (just you and the rest of the loners, but an entire screen nearly all to yourself. Don't see Fame though, people will think you're doing stuff)
Charlie Brooker’s Gameswipe (He's done it again, he's made Bad Influence ’09)

Creased:

Creased or Folded? hecklerspray Tells You the Way it is

October 21st, 2016 By Chris Laverty

Coke and Diet Coke.

Folded:

You Have Been Watching (Charlie Brooker funnier than ever – back on blistering form)
Comic Con (the geeky shall inherent the earth)
Allison Janney (hilarious in Away We Go. Hilarious in everything really)
40 Years since the moon landings (because astronauts are still really cool)
Polly Scattergood (Goldfrapp-lite, as recommended by our man Matthew Laidlow)

Creased:

Next sale (everything may be half price but unless you're a size XS or XXL there really isn't much on offer)
Nachos (crisps loaded with cheese and beef…and we wonder why we get stomach ache)

TV Preview: You Have Been Watching, Channel 4, 07/07

August 5th, 2012 By Keith Emmerson

Every now and then we like to catch a virus just to mix things up a bit and remind our immune system that it still has a role to play in our continuing existence.

To keep things interesting, given that it is summer; we decided to go with the common cold. As males we know how devastating this can be, with days of unrelenting torment and an extra 15 minutes added to getting up rituals spent futilely pumping enough drugs and various homeopathic remedies into our bodies until we feel we can connect with the outside world.

We decided to hold on to this condition even for the duration of the maiden episode of Charlie Brooker‘s new vehicle which broadcasts tonight on Channel 4. That’s how brave we are.

Creased or Folded? hecklerspray Tells You the Way it is

August 4th, 2012 By Chris Laverty

Thumbs up and down.

Folded:

Body of Lies on DVD (unfairly panned during its theatrical run, this is an engrossing, if occasionally silly spy movie with a standout turn from Mark Strong)
Dolce Gusto (if you like coffee you should have one of these already. Only sixty quid on Amazon)
Buy up old Tin-Tin crap on eBay (because it'll probably be worth a packet soon)
Ladyhawke (the band, not the film. Definitely not the film)
?Clunge? (thank you Jay from The Inbetweeners)

Creased:

TV Review: Law & Order: UK, ITV1, 23/02

August 5th, 2012 By Keith Emmerson

Michael Barrymore, Les Dennis, Shane Richie, Keith Chegwin, Bobby Davro, Bradley Walsh. What do they all have in common?

Their very mention triggers a feeling of drowning in depression? They?re cheap, tacky, polyester-suited, out dated Bognor Regis seafront entertainers? They are people who should never appear on television unless they are being pumped full of dry rice then offered a glass of water? Yes. Those things are all true.

Now, Law & Order: UK. The British (read low budget) version of the US hit drama on ITV1.