I feel the need to share Charlie Brooker on Pineapple Dance Studio

[Hassled]

In case anyone missed it. I'm still giggling like a girl.

Oh come on - someone needs to marvel with me.

That's funny, I like reading CB's stuff. Does the guy in the photo have more teeth than an average adult or does he have a special hinge in his jaw that allows him to show all his teeth at once?

I feel I need to watch it now- sounds awesome

I don't watch PDS, but Harry Hill takes the piss on his show too

I have watched it and I just don't understand it's appeal. Love the Charlie Brooker piece

that's funny. did you see harry hill about it?

I'm glad I'm not alone . And PDS is well worth watching, for all the reasons Charlie gives. I haven't seen Harry Hill about it - will try to find.

I hope for his sake that Andrew Stone is not for real, no-one can be that deluded.

Not seen Harry Hill yet, can't wait. I love Charlie Brooker.

i'm really going off charlie brooker, he's getting a bit smug.

love pds love louie too

When is it on?

it is both the funniest and most ridiculous thing on tv in ages. You all have to watch it. It's on Sky one every Sunday at 6 but is repeated at various times throughout the week and later on a Sunday night.

Agree with Southeastastra.

I've really gone off Charlie Brooker too. He's been boring, samey and unfunnily nasty for ages.

Plus he's a hypocrite for ranting at people complaining about Brand and Ross when they hadn't listened to the broadcast first hand, and then encouraging people to do the same thing over Jan Moir and Stephen Gately.

What's the difference between him mocking someone for being a camp, screaming mincer and Moir condemning gay marriages and gay lifestyles as unnatural and seedy?

If Littlejohn did it you wouldn't think it was funny.

And I'm not standing up for Moir and Littlejohn apart from their right to be just as offensive as Brooker so long as people want to keep reading their columns.

Ha ha at this. I have literally just now had a teenager (friend's son) round my house - his Eng Lit homework is to write a TV review in the style of Charlie Brooker and he didn't know where to start. I was pointing out that the key is in phrases like 'a tool of breathtaking immensity'.

tallulah - I sort of see your point, and I disagree with CB about the Brand/Ross business myself (although it has become a horribly convenient stick with which anti-BBC types have made a huge amount of hay). But I think the difference between Moir's piece and CB's is that the PDS character seems to be a deliberate caricature of 'queenish' behaviour (and therefore fair game?), whereas SG was just a man who happened to be gay.

Oh dear, terrible mixed metaphor there

Yes, Policywonk, I take your point about the difference between gay caricatures and someone who happens to be gay.

I've never seen Strictly Come Pineapple and the bloke sounds to me as if I'd hate him too which is a good reason for not watching it.

I just find CB lazy and his insults aimed at people who are often guilty of no more than being annoying.

I think there has to be more to TV criticism than mocking TV programmes because they're shit and the people on them are vacuous, fake and greedy.

Ally Ross does it brilliantly in The Sun. He also praises stuff where I find Brooker overwhelmingly negative and snippy.

Luckily I don't even have to buy it because I can borrow it from a friend every Tuesday... which reminds me.

read that in The Guide on sat, love CB. Secretly he loves it, I can tell!

PMSL at Louie on Harry Hill - fucking hilarious

Oxford St!!! Oxford St!!! ...

As someone else (Caitlin Moran I think) said, "Louie's so camp that even when he's dancing, he's dancing".

policywonk wish I'd had that sort of Eng Lit homework instead of having to read Thomas Hardy

I know! I thought it sounded marvellous, but in true Kevin-the-Teenager style, this chap was completely unimpressed by the whole exercise.

Louie is self-mocking - he knows exactly what he's doing. Stone isn't and doesn't. Both equally entertaining but for hugely different reasons!

And Charlie Booker is wondeful.

Just caught up on this week's - Louie is hysterical, but so in on the joke.

Andrew Stone - OMFG!

Watched a bit more and am begining to 'get' Louie