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[edit] Unnovations

Shouldn't there be a brief mention of his spoof retail catalogue 'unnovations'?

Wasn't there also an Unnovations web site (on which the book was based)? Or was it part of TVGoHome? Ben Finn 18:53, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Crash

Didn't he start out by sending cartoons to CRASH (magazine)?

[edit] screen wipe grammar

can someone clean up the grammar in the last section on Screen Wipe:

"Brooker's style was funny and caustic, though nonetheless was sincere in his comments"

This is not english. Lets down an otherwise spot on article.

I've moved that sentence to the Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe article and slightly modified it. Pelago 09:00, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
I've seen a LOT worse than that on Wikipedia...--MartinUK (talk) 09:34, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Toby Cartoons

"Charlie Brooker did a series of (brilliant) one page cartoon strips advertising The Tottenham Court Road Computer Games Exchange which featured in the pages of (amongst others) 'Super Play' a Super Nintendo magazine. Each one was a pastiche of a well known computer game (Mariokart, Street Fighter II etc) and also featured appearences from well known celebrities such as Kylie Minogue & Brett Anderson.

"They built up quite a cult following in their time and perhaps deserve a mention?"


These cartons actually first appeared in Acne, a comic aimed at teenage boys featuring characters such as Blind-Man, Billy Butt and The Swear Bears (possible precursors to Bad Taste Bears?). I have a bunch of them somewhere with Brooker's name clearly visible, next time I have a clearout I shall make a reference to this and also an entry on Acne comic itself. Lindsay40k 01:23, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Can someone please lengthen my stub

Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe

I'm a bit thick.

[edit] SuperKaylo

Is also missing.

Mirror doesn't appear to work P Wee 00:29, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] ginger?

the picture appears to show a ginger charlie brooker. this is a problem as he's not ginger. at all. god knows where this came from. can someone add a non-ginger picture? i'm too stupid.

having just watched a days worth of clips of screenwipe on youtube i can confirm that he's definitely not ginger. have replaced photo to remove pro-ginger bias. Evilswan 12:17, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Change to Guardian column

Charlie Brooker's 'Supposing...' column has been expanded in the Guardian's latest format change to a full-page section on Mondays, around page 5. I've edited the article to reflect this, referencing with a link to said article online. --Psyk0 13:37, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lynx

Is Charlie Brooker really a Lynx as it says? Is there another meaning to this word apart from the big cat?

Also, "Charlie Brooker" is listed on the credits for a pop video of "Balustrades" by the band Drake, which was on a PCPro magazine cover CD in 1994 or so. Does anyone know if this is the same person? The video was written/directed by David McCandless, and I know those two both worked on PC Zone magazine (see [1] )

81.99.44.170 22:22, 13 April 2007 (UTC) Peter

[edit] Personal life

Charlie Brooker lived with the actress Liz May Brice for two years. Is that relevant, seeing as we don't have much personal info on him? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Unwisely (talk • contribs) 17:29, 1 May 2008 (UTC)