What do you call the thing you use to change TV channels?

[ClashCityRocker]

I've just watched Tenable and the thing I thought it was called didn't make the top ten of names.

I'm honestly, genuinely shocked. I thought it was really common and would be the most obvious answer.

(Pinger)

Another doofer over here too!

Clicker - from the days where you had one button on a spring thing that actually clicked - you had to click through the channels and actually had to stand up and walk to the telly to turn it on and off.

You also had to wait for the telly box to "warm up " when you turned it on!

The remote

Haven’t had one for years just use the Mac

Doofer is short for hoofer doofer which is from Noel Edmonds Telly Addicts quiz show from the 80/90’s.
That’s what is always was when I was growing up.
I call it that sometimes but usually just the controller.

Remote but the kids call it the change over as that's what their dad calls it.

Remote control or the thingmabob!

At home we called it the channel changer but my husband used to laugh at me when I said that’s so it’s not the remote

*now the remote

The bleeper

doofer
Noun
(plural doofers)

(slang) An object whose name the speaker or writer cannot remember.
(slang) In particular, the remote control for a television.

It’s from ‘do for’