1. Charlton 'Charlie' Brooker was born on 3 March 1971 and is an English screenwriter, producer, presenter, author, cartoonist, and social critic.
39 Facts About Charlie Brooker
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Charlie Brooker first became known for creating and presenting satirical television shows that featured biting criticism of modern society and the media, such as Screenwipe, Gameswipe, Newswipe, and Weekly Wipe.
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Charlton Charlie Brooker was born on 3 March 1971 in Reading, Berkshire.
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Charlie Brooker grew up in a "relaxed" Quaker household in Brightwell-cum-Sotwell, Oxfordshire.
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Charlie Brooker has listed his comedic influences as Monty Python, The Young Ones, Blackadder, Chris Morris, and Vic Reeves.
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Charlie Brooker did some early work as a cartoonist and worked in the video game department of Music and Video Exchange, a retailer in Notting Hill Gate; he and some other employees left to co-found the second-hand retailer CeX, with Charlie Brooker working in their first shop and producing cartoon advertisements, as well as designing their logo.
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Charlie Brooker wrote for the magazine throughout the mid- to late-1990s.
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Charlie Brooker began writing a TV review column titled "Screen Burn" for The Guardian newspaper's Saturday entertainment supplement The Guide in 2000, a role he continued until October 2010.
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Charlie Brooker has since commented about the remark in the column stating:.
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Charlie Brooker continued to contribute other articles to The Guardian on a regular basis, his most recent comment column appearing in May 2015.
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From 1999 to 2003, Charlie Brooker wrote the satirical TVGoHome website, a regular series of mock TV schedules published in a format similar to that of the Radio Times, consisting of a combination of savage satire and surreal humour and featured in technology newsletter Need To Know.
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In May 2012, Charlie Brooker was interviewed for Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast series.
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Charlie Brooker's television presenting debut was with Gia Milinovich on BBC Knowledge's The Kit, a programme that reviewed gadgets and technology.
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From 1999 to 2000, Charlie Brooker played the hooded expert 'the Pundit' in the short-lived show Games Republic, hosted by Trevor and Simon on BSkyB.
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In 2000, Charlie Brooker was one of the writers of the Channel 4 show The 11 O'Clock Show.
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In 2003, Charlie Brooker wrote an episode entitled "How to Watch Television" for Channel 4's The Art Show.
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Together with Brass Eye's Chris Morris, Charlie Brooker co-wrote the sitcom Nathan Barley, based on a character from one of TVGoHome's fictional programmes.
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The last of these involved a segment where Charlie Brooker joined the cast of Toonattik for one week, playing the character of "Angry News Guy".
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Charlie Brooker has written and presented the one-off special Gameswipe on video games and aired on BBC Four on 29 September 2009.
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Charlie Brooker's 2010 Wipe, a review of 2010, was broadcast in December 2010.
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Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe was first broadcast on BBC Two on 31 January 2013.
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Charlie Brooker initially turned down the offer to make the special but accepted when it was clear that production would be largely unchanged, as the format of the series required few characters to appear on screen together and made extensive use of archive footage.
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Charlie Brooker wrote Dead Set, a five-part zombie horror thriller for E4 set in the Big Brother house.
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Charlie Brooker has solely written four of the episodes in series three, and has co-written the remaining two.
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Several news reports, including one by Chris Cillizza, political reporter for The Washington Post, compared the 2016 Donald Trump political campaign to "The Waldo Moment", a 2013 episode of the Black Mirror TV series; later, in September 2016, Charlie Brooker compared the Trump campaign to the episode and rightly predicted Trump would win the 2016 election.
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Charlie Brooker has appeared on three episodes and one webisode of the popular BBC current affairs news quiz Have I Got News for You.
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Charlie Brooker made a brief appearance in the third and final instalment of the documentary series Games Britannia, discussing the rise and popularity of computer games.
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Charlie Brooker wrote for the BBC Three sketch show Rush Hour.
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In 2009, Charlie Brooker began hosting You Have Been Watching, a panel comedy TV quiz on Channel 4 which discusses television.
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On 6 May 2010, Charlie Brooker was a co-host of the Channel 4 alternative election night, along with David Mitchell, Jimmy Carr and Lauren Laverne.
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Charlie Brooker described the experience of live television as being so nerve-wracking he "did a piss" during the broadcast.
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Charlie Brooker hosted How TV Ruined Your Life, which aired on BBC Two between January and March 2011.
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In November 2020, Hugh Grant reported that Charlie Brooker was producing a mockumentary with Netflix "about 2020".
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From 2010 to 2012, Charlie Brooker presented a BBC Radio 4 series celebrating failure titled So Wrong It's Right, in which guests compete to pitch the worst possible ideas for new franchises and give the "most wrong" answer to a question.
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Charlie Brooker became engaged to television presenter Konnie Huq after dating for nine months, having met while filming an episode of Screenwipe.
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Charlie Brooker is an atheist and contributed to The Atheist's Guide to Christmas.
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Charlie Brooker won the 2009 Columnist of the Year award at the British Press Awards for his Guardian column.
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Charlie Brooker has received three British Comedy Awards: Best Newcomer in 2009, Best Comedy Entertainment Show Award for Newswipe in 2011 and Best Comedy Entertainment Personality in 2012.
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At the BAFTA TV Awards 2017, his show Charlie Brooker's 2016 Wipe won for Best Comedy and Comedy Entertainment Programme.