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‘You can’t be playin’ checkers on a chessboard, yo’

Just thought I would make mention of the fact that season the first of HBO show The Wire finished on my telly last week. FX, being the dears they are, are starting season the second tonight. I will love it. I have to mention that as the first season was wearing on, I was entertainingContinue reading “‘You can’t be playin’ checkers on a chessboard, yo’”

Your Now-Weekly Daily Show Clip of the Week! #2: Week!

I love John Hodgman: it must be the way he stares, questioningly, into the camera after saying stuff. That and he’s mre deadpan than a really deadpan thing. Like Patrick Stewart’s old kitchen utensils cupboard. Yes, a terrible joke, but a necessary one to counter the hilarity that is Hodgman. Anyway, in this clip HodgmanContinue reading “Your Now-Weekly Daily Show Clip of the Week! #2: Week!”

On this week’s episode of Screenwipe, the excellent and often hilarious televisual spin-off to Charlie Brooker’s Screenburn Guardian column, the rectangular-headed one looked at the phenomenon of youth television. I’m not spelling it ‘yoof’ on account of it’s not 1987 any more. The very act of writing about Screenwipe is to tread the tightrope ofContinue reading