Shopping Channel Mishap

1. alistair
   November 1st, 2008 at 2:15 pm

   the show is this excellent part of the fantastic charlie brookers show screenwipe
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiwmYjk9ARA

2. Monica
   November 1st, 2008 at 2:18 pm

   The guy selling the tv isn't Charlie Brooker, the show that comes on in the background is 'Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe'

3. Him
   November 1st, 2008 at 4:16 pm

   Dang, feel sorry for him.

4. Pol x
   November 1st, 2008 at 4:55 pm

   the genius that is Charlie Brooker.

   see tvgohome.com

   Nathan Barley, Screen wipe and his recent Dead Set, a zombie flick set in the Big Brother house.

   righteous stuff.

5. Angstrom
   November 1st, 2008 at 5:10 pm

   yes, you have got the text to this completely wrong.

   The show on the TV is "Charlie Brooker's screenwipe", an excellent show where Charlie Brooker heckles TV.

   I have no idea who the guy doing the commercial is.

6. Alex
   November 1st, 2008 at 5:18 pm

   I stand corrected! Fixed now.

7. Woogie
   November 1st, 2008 at 5:36 pm

   Nice. That was hilarious.

8. ted
   November 1st, 2008 at 5:54 pm

   I dunno. The British laugh at anything that even remotely resembles a penis innuendo.

9. Angstrom
   November 2nd, 2008 at 9:03 am

   ted, I don't think that is the point of the humour.

   In Charlie Brookers show, the one visible on the plasma TV, CB is berating a certain kind of man in advertising. He uses the word "cock" not in it's genital sense but to berate and deflate the men involved.

   The humour lies in the fact that the CBSW segment berating bad advertising then shows up by mistake in an advertisement, by a man.

   you can watch the original CBSW segment here, you will understand:
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiwmYjk9ARA

10. Pudifoot
    November 2nd, 2008 at 4:54 pm

    angstrom: can't the joke be enjoyed on both levels? I mean, when you are advertising something, the last thing you want to flash up on the screen is something like "COCKS". (Unless you are advertising Viagra, perhaps)

11. Pol x
    November 2nd, 2008 at 6:39 pm

    I'd love to agree with you Angstrom but ....damn it if ted is not actually on the money about the uk knob joke humour.

    this gives me no pleasure to admit...... damn your eyes, damn your biscuits ted.

    hee hee.

12. Monica
    November 2nd, 2008 at 7:12 pm

    Here’s a poor shopping channel host who was only trying to sell a television on QVC UK when Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe came on!

    Alex - I've fixed it some more

13. Gail Pink
    November 3rd, 2008 at 8:44 am

    Geezus, who needs this "explained" to them? It's hilarious!

14. ted
    November 3rd, 2008 at 7:20 pm

    Thanks for the explanation, Angstrom. You really got down to the meat and potatoes there. Here, I was feeling like the cock of the walk, but now I just feel like a weiner.

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