Charlie Brooker Quotes

"How could you think of such awful things?" liberal critics always ask. "How else could I possibly amuse myself?" I always wonder.

If everything was good, maybe I wouldn't have a career. I wouldn't have anything to make fun of.

Making people uncomfortable is one of my hobbies. I'm always hoping that half the people get the joke and the other half are the joke.

Everything needs to be lampooned. I believe that there's not any sacred ground.

I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

Marilyn Manson is a criticism of gimmickry, while being itself a gimmick.

If nothing is serious anymore, then there's nothing to satirize.

Bret Easton Ellis is a social satirist; I consider myself aligned with how he does things. Bret doesn't write about that which he loves about the world, he writes about what disgusts him. You'd be a disturbed individual if you came out and said, 'I love these characters'.

You can't be satirical and not be offensive to somebody.

I'm accused of, and perhaps rightly so, of not being mean enough. I've been taken to task in many a book review; a good satirist has to, you know, has to kill.

We didn’t sell out our last concert. We’ve got to get the John Birch Society to attack us before the next concert.

I need my comedy to offend. That's my personal views.

I think comedy and satire are the strongest ways to deal with very serious themes and very painful themes.

As comics if you aren't rubbing people the wrong way, to me, you suck.

I also believe in cigarettes, cholesterol, alcohol, carbon monoxide, masturbation, the Arts Council, nuclear weapons, the Daily Telegraph, and not properly labeling fatal poisons, but above all else, most of all, I believe in the one thing that can come out of people's mouths: vomit.

One parody is worth a thousand polemics.

Do you get the feeling with Sarah Palin, in high school, she was voted least likely to write a book and most likely to burn one?

I learned another thing, which is that just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story.

Ghost of Bobby: no, no you can't eat me. I'm a ghost. Stephen Colbert: That just means that there's less bones to pick out.

I saw a guy wearing a "What Would Jesus Do?" bracelet and a Lance Armstrong bracelet, and he went up to this blind kid and rubbed his eyes, and the kid could see. But he wasn't used to the light, 'cause it was bright, and he walked into traffic and was killed instantly. Okay, the people that are laughing right now? I'm gonna call you guys half-full. Because you're focusing on the important part of the story: the bracelets are working.

Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.

If they [peple] really hate you, that means you're doing something right.

Wherever there is objective truth, there is satire.

Slim Shady is just the evil thoughts that come into my head. Things I shouldn't be thinking about. Not to be gimmicky, but people should be able to determine when I'm serious and when I'm f... around. That's why a lot of my songs are funny. I got a warped sense of humor I guess.