>Mr Brooker, you cheeky little minx. 'Boat missers' indeed.
>

I'm not entirely convinced that the Corpses are 'boat missers'. I don't think they want to get into comedy and if they did why would they waste their time writing articles about how crap they think current comedy is when they could be sending their comedy scripts to the BBC?

> I'm not entirely convinced that the Corpses are 'boat missers'.

I'm not entirely convinced it's about the Corpses anyway.

I laughed more at this TVGH than all the others put together. Short and witty, better, hmm?

Good work. Back in condition. Makes the Corpses premature burial of TVGH look a little... er... premature?

I'm sure the Corpse boys are not the "boat-missers" either. That's clearly inspired by all that Jane McDonald / Matthew Kelly shit that clogs the airwaves like dead cats in a sluice.

TVGH isn't bad as far as hoity-toity comedy goes. but it's nowt special. It's got no charm at all. It could very well be chunred out by a university student during their pending hours between cynicism dwelling and pondering the peculiar need for frowning during sex. It is the result of misdirected hate which itself has only become hate due to a dire need for it to be naturally manufactured thus rendering the vessell for this abundance of hate incapable of holding any other emotion i.e embarressment over past under-achievements.

Brooker is hatred. So 'tis no wonder the Corpses tapped into the very essence of rage when role playing as him.

> It is the result of misdirected hate which itself has only become hate due to a dire need for it to be naturally manufactured thus rendering the vessell for this abundance of hate incapable of holding any other emotion i.e embarressment over past under-achievements.

Run that by me again? Always thought TVGH was more about angry disappointment with the stupidity of TV, the people who make it, and its audience.

I can't believe that "Charlie Brooker IS hatred", since an emotion that strong would require him to actually stir himself from his habitual torpor... (I'm going from other people's descriptions of him here, not personal knowledge.)
The original joke in TVGH was putting focusless bile and spite into the format of the bland-as-you-like Radio Times listings. It was the incongruity that made it funny. At least that's what I found amusing - the idea that a listings (or commissioning) editor had filled the schedules with numbing loathing and spittle.
The poor recent issues of TVGH were just as kinder describes, hatred and nothing else. One side of the joke had taken over completely. TVGH had become an expression of hate, rather than a parody. That's probably why they weren't funny.
I'll stick by it and hope it gets back on course properly.

>Run that by me again? Always thought TVGH was more about angry disappointment with the stupidity of TV, the people who make it, and its audience.

It's usually about popshots, isn't it? Although last week's didn't seem to have one. Still, maybe there'll be an extra large Sting-style dollop next time.

I thought it was poor this week. Or maybe I've just had too much coffee.