Charlton Brooker was born on 3 March 1971 and is an English television presenter, writer, producer and satirist.
44 Facts About Charlie Brooker
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Charlie Brooker is the creator and co-showrunner of the sci-fi drama anthology series Black Mirror, and has written for comedy series such as Brass Eye, The 11 O'Clock Show and Nathan Barley.
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Charlie Brooker started his career as a cartoonist; he produced adverts for the second-hand video game retailer CeX before becoming a journalist for PC Zone.
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Charlie Brooker has presented a number of television shows, mostly consisting of satirical and biting criticism of modern society and the media, such as Screenwipe, Gameswipe, Newswipe, Weekly Wipe, and 10 O'Clock Live.
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Charlie Brooker wrote the 2008 horror drama series Dead Set.
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Charlie Brooker has written social criticism pieces for The Guardian and is one of four creative directors of the production company Zeppotron.
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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's parents were fans of the television sitcom Bewitched, and named him Charlton after a character in one episode and his sister Samantha after the series' main character.
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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, London.
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When one of the employees left to found the second-hand retailer CeX, Charlie Brooker worked in their first shop and produced cartoon advertisements.
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Charlie Brooker's first published review was of the 1997 game Fallout.
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Charlie Brooker wrote for the magazine in the mid and 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 through to 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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In May 2012, Charlie Brooker was interviewed for Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast series.
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From 1999 to 2000, Charlie Brooker played 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 and a co-host on BBC Knowledge's The Kit, a low-budget programme dedicated to gadgets and technology.
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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 which focused 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 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 former Blue Peter presenter Konnie Huq after dating for nine months, having met while filming an episode of Screenwipe.
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Charlie Brooker's sister-in-law is Rupa Huq, Member of Parliament for Ealing Central and Acton.
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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.