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My theory is that we used to have several personalities, and now we're encouraged to have one online.
Charlie Brooker
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Charlie Brooker
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: March 3
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One of the benefits of aligning yourself with an indistinct cluster of people is that claiming to feel their pain is often enough.
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I tried to be all intellectual and erudite and with others I'd just swear and curse and be an idiot. And suddenly, when they're all in one space, I don't know who I am.
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Men Against Jive is a brilliant title! That's a military story, that's a difficult one to explain really because that's sort of a war... it's not just a war story.
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I really don't want to sound like overly negative or critical of the Internet in general because I'm actually really quite pro-technology.
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I mean, sometimes we do do that, The National Anthem was a caustic satire and sometimes that's the way to go with the story rather than me being particularly misanthropic.
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I actually had that conversation with [Channel 4 Chief Creative Officer] Jay Hunt. We were at a bit of a crisis point. I'd written a totally different script - about war, basically - that got rejected at the last minute for various reasons. The whole of the series was in doubt. I said, Well, there is one other idea [National Anthem].
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