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Brooker reviewed Euro Truck Simulator.īrooker 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.įrom late 2005, he wrote a regular series of columns in The Guardian supplement "G2" on Fridays called "Supposing", in which he free-associated on a set of vague what-if themes. In October 2008, Brooker and several other ex-writers were invited back to review a game for the 200th issue. The original joke was supposed to be at the expense of the Tomb Raider games, known at the time for the number of animals killed, but the original title, " Lara Croft's Cruelty Zoo", was changed for legal reasons. It was accompanied by photoshopped pictures of children smashing the skulls of monkeys with hammers, jumping on a badger with a pitchfork, and chainsawing an orang-utan, among other things. The cartoon was titled "Helmut Werstler's Cruelty Zoo" and professed to be an advert for a theme park created by a Teutonic psychologist for children to take out their violent impulses on animals rather than humans. One of Brooker's one-shot cartoons caused the magazine to be pulled from the shelves of many British newsagents.

Aside from games reviews, his output included the comic strip "Cybertwats" and a column titled "Sick Notes", where Brooker would insult anyone who wrote in to the magazine – and offered a £50 prize to the best letter. Brooker wrote for the magazine in the mid and late 1990s. His early reviews included System Shock (1994) and Fallout (1997).

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Career Print Īfter some of Brooker's CeX cartoons were printed in the magazine PC Zone, he was invited to write for the magazine.

When one of the employees left to found the second-hand retailer CeX, Brooker worked in their first shop and produced cartoon advertisements. īrooker 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. He has listed his comedic influences as Monty Python, The Young Ones, Blackadder, Chris Morris and Vic Reeves. He says that he did not graduate because his dissertation was written on video games, which was not considered an acceptable topic. Īfter attending Wallingford School, Brooker attended the Polytechnic of Central London (which became the University of Westminster during his final year there) to study for a BA in Media Studies. As a teenager, he first worked as a writer and cartoonist for Oink!, a comic produced in the late 1980s. His 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. He grew up in a relaxed Quaker household in Brightwell-cum-Sotwell, Oxfordshire.

He has written social criticism pieces for The Guardian and is one of four creative directors of the production company Zeppotron.Ĭharlie Brooker was born on 3 March 1971 in Reading, Berkshire. He also wrote the 2008 horror drama series Dead Set. He 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. He 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.īrooker started his career as a cartoonist he produced adverts for the second-hand video game retailer CeX before becoming a journalist for PC Zone. English television presenter, writer, and producerĬharlton Brooker (born 3 March 1971) is an English television presenter, writer, producer and satirist.
