The logical quandaries thrown up by well-meaning systems are clearly something that I find darkly amusing. Charlie Brooker Read Quote
We humans are great at creating tools with unforeseen consequences. For instance, when we invented the wheel, we had no way of knowing we were also laying the foundations for the TV show ‘Top Gear.’ Charlie Brooker Read Quote
When it comes to something like Brexit, I am part of the liberal-media London bubble, and so, to me, voting to leave was madness. My perspective was that it was cutting off your nose to spite your face. Charlie Brooker Read Quote
There are different groups of people in your life that you behave slightly differently with. You behave one way with your family. You behave in a different way with your work colleagues. You behave differently with your friends from the movie club, your fitness instructor – all subtly different personas. Charlie Brooker Read Quote
With Boris Johnson, you don’t think of him as a politician, oddly. You think of him as a media personality because he’s a comic character. He’s basically Homer Simpson. That makes him strangely bullet-proof. Charlie Brooker Read Quote
MasterChef’ delivers all the reassuring, cadenced repetition of an endless chore without any of the bothersome elbow grease. Charlie Brooker Read Quote
I liked that sort of thing, those one-off stories like ‘Tales of the Unexpected,’ ‘Hammer House of Horror,’ ‘The Twilight Zone’ and ‘Alfred Hitchcock Presents.’ Charlie Brooker Read Quote
On ‘Black Mirror,’ we don’t tend to deal with big, powerful people, because when you look at a Weinstein or something, you think, ‘Is he capable of feeling anything?’ Charlie Brooker Read Quote
