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'''''Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe''''' is a television program written and hosted by [[Charlie Brooker]], a British [[Caustic Critic]], about television and how it's made. The show is similar in content to the ''Screen Burn'' columns that Brooker wrote until recently for ''[[British Newspapers|The Guardian]]''.
The show usually involves a couple of different segments. He reviews shows and programs, with a shot similar to the one at the top of the page of him in the living room of his house with his remote (and often various other peripherals such as a laptop, or [[
▲''Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe'' is a television program written and hosted by [[Charlie Brooker]], a British [[Caustic Critic]], about television and how it's made. The show is similar in content to the ''Screen Burn'' columns that Brooker wrote until recently for ''[[British Newspapers|The Guardian]]''. Started in 2006 and still ongoing.
Part of ''Screenwipe'''s appeal is the [[Sophisticated As Hell]] contrast of watching Charlie swing between being an incisive, intelligent,commentator on modern culture and a poo-flinging [[Man Child]] bellowing profanity at the screen and pretending to masturbate.
▲The show usually involves a couple of different segments. He reviews shows and programs, with a shot similar to the one at the top of the page of him in the living room of his house with his remote (and often various other peripherals such as a laptop, or [[PS 2]] or ''[[Guitar Hero]]'' controllers), scathingly reviewing whatever's on screen. Secondly the show often has segments that show how difficult and painful it is to make a television program, or what a career in television is like. The show also features animations by internet animator David Firth (of ''[[Salad Fingers]]'' fame), and various other famous (or not) people talking about various aspects of television.
▲Part of ''Screenwipe'''s appeal is the [[Sophisticated As Hell]] contrast of watching Charlie swing between being an incisive, intelligent,commentator on modern culture and a poo-flinging [[Man Child]] bellowing profanity at the screen and pretending to masturbate.
The show inspired [[Ben Croshaw|Yahtzee]]'s [[Zero Punctuation|review style]], and is generally a very entertaining and educational watch, even if you're not a fan of television. Due to the nature of the show, it makes excellent viewing for tropers.
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* [[Atomic F
* [[Author Filibuster]]: [[Tropes Are Not Bad|The show is built on them]].
* [[Biting the Hand Humor]]: [[The BBC]], and production company Endemol. Both pay his bills, and both get speared quite often on his show.
* [[Black Comedy]]
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Welcome to Screenwipe, a program all about television."
* [[Caustic Critic]]
* [[Child
** [http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/16202837 He later had a baby with Konnie Huq].
* [[Credits Gag]]
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*** The original showing was hilarious as the announcer said villainously "Yes Charlie, Merry Christmas to you too. But you're forgetting! We can squeeze it! And you won't feel a thing!"
** Strictly, there's no rule about when credits can be shown. So most shows put them at the end, but they're allowed maybe a minute or so [[The Stinger|stinger]] afterwards. Brooker took advantage of this by running them ''10 seconds'' after the starting sequence, pretending the show had ended (making any pushback voiceover on the credits completely useless) and getting Victoria Coren, of all people, to run a fake documentary about corners before performing a [[Hostile Show Takeover]] ''of his own show''. Since he'd already run the credits, there was nothing at the end and the episode just slammed straight back into the adverts.
** He mentioned this again during his critique of ''[[
* [[Deconstruction]] of television.
* [[Fan Disservice]]: He spends an entire episode shirtless. It's not likely to be a titillating sight.
* [[Hey,
* [[Hypocritical Humour]]: Especially about the way TV shows are made. Also, in the 2007 retrospective the storm of scandals over faked phone-in contests and a misleading trailer about the Queen damaged people's trust in TV as a whole, illustrated by [[Vox Pops|asking a member of the public]]:
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'''Interviewee:''' Yeah.
'''Charlie:''' Would you mind...just for this...saying that you don't believe anything? Is that all right?
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'''Charlie:''' Do you believe anything you see on TV?
'''Interviewee:''' No, not really. }}
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* [[Insult Backfire]]: In the "Aspirational TV" segment (see [[Atomic F
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'''Random Socialite:''' ''[Unflinching]'' No. }}
* [[Jerk
** Also watch his sensitive and balanced coverage of the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake.
*** "Perhaps surprisingly, some of the most measured coverage came from [[Fox News Channel|Fox News]]."
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* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: During the show, they claimed they interviewed "TV insiders", but to conceal their identity, they filmed them in a darkened room, and used one of the researchers in their place instead.
* [[Logic Bomb]]: In an episode that examines televisual trickery used to bend the truth, Charlie presents the "Truthbot 2000", a [[Beeping Computers|deliberately low-budget prop]] he claims can detect falsehoods and alert the viewers. Truthbot instantly points out that it is just a box with some lights and circuits inside with a voice dubbed on later. Charlie asks it how it knows this if it's just a cheap prop, the paradox causes it to overload and explode.
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* [[Male Frontal Nudity]]: Shows up when talking about how it usually doesn't show up.
* [[Manipulative Editing]]: A segment about reality television demonstrated quite aptly that with the exact same footage, you can create almost any narrative you want.
* [[The Mean Brit]]
* [[Metaphorgotten]]: ''[[
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: Deliberately invoked in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59OJ17raqWw his piece about aspirational TV]; shows such as ''[[Dallas]]'', ''[[Sex and
* [[My Friends and Zoidberg]]: A past-lives "investigation" show featured "A top A-list celebrity (or Eddie Large.)"
* [[Name McAdjective]]: The most obvious example, "Shouty McHeadwoundman", is from ''[[
* [[Our Lawyers Advised This Trope]]
* [[Post Modernism]]: "We're so bloody postmodern we're about to post a screenshot of me typing this very entry into the example list [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQB2mL4UBvs#t=1m11s itself]!"
* [[Precision F
* [[Real Song Theme Tune]]: Grandaddy's ''Am180'', also known as the "''[[
* [[Refuge in Vulgarity]]
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* [[Running Gag]]: The three monsters who attack and piss on people. They also appear on ''[[TV Go Home]]''.
** Barry Shitpeas, one of the recurring [[Vox Pops|talking heads]].
** The repeated references of [[Ant and Dec]].
* [[Reaction Shot]]
* [[Self
** "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYce_R9mBVM#t=6m45s I've got a face like a pedophile walrus.]"
** Having dismissed ''Britannia High'''s apparent theme, that vapid pop stardom is the pinnacle of achievement:
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* [[Sound Effect Bleep]]: Even though the show is show post-[[Watershed]], Charlie gets bleeped almost every time he says "fuck".
** Note that while Charlie's speech is censored, clips from shows he's reviewing aren't.
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* [[Take That]]
* [[Totally Radical]]: In the links for a segment on yoof TV, Charlie is dressed in a hoodie, baggy jeans and a chunky gold chain.
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* [[Vox Pops]]: Parodied, as above in [[Hypocritical Humour]].
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