NEEDLESS FACTOIDS REAL NAME: Charlston 'Charlie' Brooker AGE: 31 [ ish ] BIRTHDATE: 3/3/1971 POPULAR WITH: Intellectual nerds, good people UNPOPULAR WITH: Girls, 'The Corpses' SELF DESCRIPTION: a bloated, disconsolate cod MINI BIOGRAPHY

Charlston Brooker was always a little bit different from the other children. When he was a wee nipper, he would entertain visitors to his family home by spitting at them and making them cry. Sadly, an accident with a swing sent him into a sudden coma when he was seven, a deep sleep from which he would only awaken when he was 15 years old. As a teenager Charlie was a witty but tormented outsider. Girls liked him but didn't fancy him, and being continually surrounded by dimwits, he sought for a medium through which to express his adolescent anger, resentment and self pity. This he found in video games.. many hsours of his life were spent bashing away at imaginary computer spectres. His love of games would eventually draw him to the Computer Exchange, where he was encouraged by a colleague to shave off all his hair, and for months endured terrified looks from cautious old ladies in the street. One of the first talents that Charlie discovered he had was the art of drawing cartoons. Although most of his early work in this field was peurile and uninspired (sorry dude), he would eventually produce some really good stuff.. usually published in respectable journals such as Acne, Oink and.. ahem.. Elephant Parts. The best pen-and-ink scribbling was a cartoon series called Horny Estelle.. it spanned over fifty pages and stands as one of Charlie's best works. The strip is bitterly realistic and clearly scrawled from experience, but it retains a tongue-in-cheek honesty that appeals. Cartoons weren't Charlie's only talent. He also had quite a way with words. After going on a media studies course in university ( where he tried to read every tabloid but ended up reading the Sun and nothing else ), he went freelance... contorting and spazzing the English language for anyone who would pay for his daily bread. Soon Charlie found a home in the clammy pages of gaming magazine PC Zone. Many readers actually didn't appreciate Brooker's material being published in the mag, and it was becoming increasingly obvious to the writer/comedian/cartoonist/plumber that he needed a wider audience for his questionable jokes. But this wasn't happening. Despite being on Radio 1 Digital Update, BBC News 24 and The Kit ( a crap cable TV technology show ), our man remained firmly underground. He needed something that would really bring his twisted brilliance to people's attention... On the day of his 28th birthday, Charlie published a new section on his personal website called Tv Go Home. This soon became a website in it's own right, and attracted hundreds of visitors with it's anarchic tone and feverish imagination. The site was at first anonymous, but by Christmas 2001, Charlie had revealed himself as the brains behind the evil and clinched a major book deal with Fourth Estate. Woo hoo. Nowadays, Charlie is the creative director of successful media company Zeppotron - which he founded with writers he met whilst working on the 11 o clock show. He's worked on several tv shows, including the controversial Brass Eye Special. This year he's releasing a new book and working on some new television projects. He's also writing a regular column in the Guardian Guide, which quite possibly is the best thing in the world. Ever. Charlie is finally becoming famous. Well, a little bit. His Tv Go Home Book had a rave review in the celebrity fawn mag Heat, and now that he's revealed himself as the creator of the country's favorite obscene website, more and more people are wondering; who on earth is 'Charlie Bocker'? If you meet any of these people in the future, please direct them to this website.

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