This man is hilarious.  Since the last Brass Eye in 2001, there have been a couple of programmes, some by members of the Brass Eye and Day Today team, which have carried the torch for hilarious piss-takery of the media and telly.  The Thick of It, Broken News, the Alan Partridge spin-offs – but Charlie Brooker’s show is up there with the lot of them.  Last week I said that the show seemed to have a bit of  a format problem, but this show followed the same format and it’s all a bit clearer now – actually, it’s not really, but Brooker is really funny so who cares. 

There was, however, a discernible theme to this week’s show – that of
reality TV (and by the looks of it next week’s theme is going to be sex
on TV).  At the start there were some truly wonderful rants against
some of the freakier shows out there – The Baby Mind Reader, the
Greatest Psychic in Britain, and the Psychic Phone-in channel.  Of
course, all this is a bit of a cheap shot – it’s really not hard to
take the piss out of a man hopping around the floor pretending to be a
baby that swears, or out of a TV channel that reads Tarot cards by text
message.  But what the hell, he pays for his cheap shots in sharp
phrases and he says the kind of things that should be said, and in a
really amusing way. Watch it next week, there’s only a few episodes left.