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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.
[[Spin-Off|Spinoffs]] includes ''[[
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* [[Atomic F-Bomb]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59OJ17raqWw Emphatically] rejecting the false dream of glamour TV sells us. (Starts at about 0:41) Note that his face turns bright red.
* [[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]]
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* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: You may not believe it at first, especially when the man himself is uncredited, but Mr. Noseybonk was portrayed by {{spoiler|[[Stuart Ashen]] himself}}. [http://uptojump.com/ashens/wordpress/2008/12/noseybox-onhttp://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Screenwipe?action=edit-the-tellybonk.html Really].
* [[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?
[cut]
'''Charlie:''' Do you believe anything you see on TV?
'''Interviewee:''' No, not really. }}
* [[I'll Be in My Bunk]]: And then some: upon viewing disturbing or violent imagery, Charlie's reaction is to utter "oh yeah" and stick a hand down his pants.
* [[Insult Backfire]]: In the "Aspirational TV" segment (see [[Atomic F-Bomb]] above)
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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-Strike]]: When the [[Sound Effect Bleep]] is omitted from Charlie's f-bombs, it's done for a good reason
* [[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-Deprecation]]: Very often.
** "[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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