Charlie Brooker - RHLSTP

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Richard is hoping he will find his way into the Guinness Book of Records, but Norris Macwhirter is not answering his calls. His guest is making a return visit to RHLSTP after 7 and a half years (but will his hair reveal his success?) - it’s the amazing Charlie Brooker.
The conversation is predictably dark and disgusting incorporating Charlie’s fury at a seven year old who makes an amazing living opening boxes, trying to introduce his kids to the Young Ones, what the best pinball machine is, whether having sex with your best friend via computer game is cheating, the complexity of writing a choose your own adventure TV show, being born with an umbilical cord around your neck and how you can kill sperm with urine. Plus the inevitability of nuclear war and whether all people over 45 need to die to save the world. It’s good.

[@demetrikatsidis6776]

I cannot tell you how happy I was to see this pop up this morning. Not only because it's the great Brooker but because these uploads are one of the few pleasures in my life (really) I listen to them in the bath after work and in bed to help me drift off, and now I will be listening simply to fill the time for the foreseeable. I know I'm not alone in saying these videos have helped me mentally and some of the stories and messages from the guests have resonated,educated and moved me in addition to the laughter. Seeing Richard in the clip before the video made me a bit emotional too. We truly don't know how long we will be in this mess and I'm sure ppl are worrying as I am. We are in it together guys I hope you all find the strength to make it through with some positive outcomes to show for it. God bless. Keep talking and reach out to others if you need help or in a position to give help.Lastly,Thank you Richard to you Chris Evans (not that one) and all the crew that make these shows possible- you legends xx

[@mmabennyj]

I was once like you. Am a lot healthier now. If you haven’t I suggest watching the first time Jon Robbins was on. That led me to him and he’s podcast and I use his shows like you use this if I get really bad.

[@clemteetonball1250]

Keep well Demetri x

[@masterofallhesurveys]

Well put ,Demetri.Stay safe.

[@demetrikatsidis6776]

@@clemteetonball1250 thank you

[@demetrikatsidis6776]

@@masterofallhesurveys thank you

[@aquablushgirl]

Richard I have not laughed so hard and so often during a programme/podcast for such a long time. This was hysterical. Charlie is such an excellent good value guest. I love his humour and you two bounce off each other really well. I loved this. Thank you.

[@TheCrimsonLupus]

I love how people like Brooker and Frankie Boyle have this grumpy man vibe who create very dark material, but are actually really nice people in person. This is a great show, one of my favourites so far as I am working through your back catalogue. Also: "The cunts rolling a six" :D

[@ajrobson]

The part about Ryan starts at 41:27 I’ve laughed about this bit every day since the podcast came out

[@portland-182]

Charlie out weirding Richard and no time for emergency questions? Awesome!

[@krankenhosen]

Please don't leave it seven and half years before Charlie Brooker is back on. This was great.

[@karenimber8870]

sending all my love to all out there from australia and thinking of you all.

[@affalaffaa]

Thanks Karen and love to all you from the UK.

[@NxDoyle]

The last few RHLSTP's RHLSTP's have been so great, I'm re-watching. Thanks so much, Rich.

[@DodderingOldMan]

Aw man, I was looking forward to this one, and it didn't disappoint. One of the all time best.

[@hanumaniam]

"I know my place" Richard Herring 🤣

[@joelsamuel8111]

These interviews have been great to watch since I’ve been in isolation from January (living in china)

[@paulgwor836]

Stay strong dude

[@Superfantastictop10]

I've been on lockdown in Spain for only 2 weeks and I'm going stir crazy...but you're right...these videos are great.

[@jainedutton1619]

I feel your pain! I am in lockdown in the UAE. RHLSTP is a wee treat from home

[@ruthycantfail]

joel samuel me too Joel! I’m in Shanghai. Loving rhlstp 🤩

[@VictoriaSobocki]

Take care!

[@DJEdSaunders]

That was amazing - Charlie is still keeping it real, despite the massive success - absolutely loved this one

[@VictoriaSobocki]

Honest bloke

[@gladtobeangry]

I must have missed this one when it came out, pleasantly surprised at seeing it pop up in my suggested videos. I also didnt realise how much I've been missing Charlie's dark musings. I hope he does one day return to presenting shows, however unlikely it may be. This was hilarious, thanks.

[@affalaffaa]

I fucking love Charlie Brooker. Hopefully he's got some time to do a yearly wipe this year. I miss them. Also, the love for Rik Mayall I approve of.

[@lloroshastar6347]

One of the benefits of working from home due to this crisis is I can listen to podcasts while I work. I hope I don't become too complacent because it won't last.

[@lloroshastar6347]

@@kingofgoogle7715 Are you implying we are going to be in lockdown forever?

[@astronomenov99]

This is probably the funniest and most entertaining podcast I've ever seen/heard. Charlie Brooker is very sharp and witty. They are very well matched, him and Richard.

[@astronomenov99]

Also, doesn't Charlie Brooker look like Jared Harris?

[@Travis_Kemp]

so good to see charlie again. i loved the idea of the food/shit selfie. if you gonna subject the unknowing public of all the food adventures, it SHOULD be mandatory to provide an "after" photo. LMAO

[@jacksonvega7751]

As a 32 yr old i have a vivid memory of findin that Adams Family pin ball machine utterly fascinating... Never played it but looked the shit outta it at blackburn ice rink.

[@pamdemonia]

Thanks a lot you two. Now I have the mental image of Stewart Lee going to town on Richard Herring and it's gonna be damn hard to get it out.

[@smoothmicra]

One of the better ones, Charlie bring back Screen Wipe!

[@VictoriaSobocki]

Yes, agree!

[@misterchippie]

4:20am and here I am. Trying to stay sane. This helps a lot so thanks Rich!

[@billyunterbuchner9197]

man-up ffs

[@misterchippie]

@@billyunterbuchner9197 Now why didn't I think of that. I'm better now.

[@billyunterbuchner9197]

@@misterchippie good lad

[@j4dd3r5]

I knew it was 4:20 somewhere!

[@pseudonayme7717]

@Adam Always and everywhere bro😎👍🤘✌

[@Doc_Filth]

"Streaming bloat" sounds like it may have been what caused Rich to have a really long wee.

[@arronhealy1]

The absolute, uncensored joy I got from Charlie Brooker mentioning FGTeeV (which our kids liked at first but since we've kind of liked but secretly really liked).

[@MrUmandMrEr]

Strangely prophetic, Charlie... Great show RH.

[@gretchenbaker7435]

Thank you kind sir's for a great chat. I'm pretending this is happening in my lounge to make the not fun lock in more pleasant. Don't get me wrong I have my lovely family around, but they are getting less funnier as the days go by.

[@DarrenH001]

Superb. Seeing these two together reminds me of watching the hilarious 'One Show' round on the first episode of 'You Have Been Watching' through tears of laughter streaming down my face. Thank you!

[@solistheonegod]

😂😂 brilliant this is going into my top ten.

[@SamLowryDZ-015]

Used to love how rude he was at the exchange shop - still got a boxed copy of Dracula with his signature on it.

[@gmann6269]

So you met him well before he was famous yet you had the foresight to get his autograph?

[@SamLowryDZ-015]

@@gmann6269 No the labels on the boxes had staff signatures on them - it's pure chance I still have that one as most of my games from that era I sold/exchanged years ago.

[@gmann6269]

@@SamLowryDZ-015 Can you remember any examples of his rudeness at the exchange shop? What year/years was this?

[@P5YcHoKiLLa]

I enjoyed when they were judging firefighters, with the amount of water Charlie was throwing about on that chair I think he was practising to become one.

[@theefishlippedone]

i liked the dig about Richies hair, think that went over Brookers post-gelled bouffant

[@EricBrettJones]

I wish he'd put the record date on these!

[@ozanyoung2909]

I was looking up the Konnie Huq RHLSTP episode and then I remembered this one had only just come out.

[@tereasia]

Great one!!

[@trevorrandom]

I needed this thanks ☺

[@WOOOPdoctorFROGhere]

Ruh LEICESTER Pahhh! Where can I watch the Herring & Brooker podcast from 7 years ago? Can't find it on youtube.

[@Herring1967]

Don't think we filmed that one - but it's on audio play.acast.com/s/rhlstp/?fbclid=IwAR0uvVGWxuMEc3d2NmaHG-k-VfOLm9-q8QIs2Xs0vgnM1_8edSwqsj3hdTQ

[@Tularis]

Yes! Mr Charlton Brookerington! ❤️

[@adamgrocco]

Mark Rylance is no longer doing Flops voice in Bing, is now David Threlfall (Frank Gallagher from Shameless).

[@davidrobinson2776]

Has “Flops” started asking for a pint and a couple of Es?

[@MatSallehBoleh]

Thanks Mr Herring

[@Wagoo]

The Star Trek: The Next Generation pinball table is the best one! Even Jeff Minter has one

[@panda-wk8mv]

well, this one is interesting to listen to in january 2021

[@philpheburbs]

Brooker was on form!!

[@RIXRADvidz]

HeLL-Ever Long it's going to be. There's a whole back catalog of RHLSTP, lots of very interesting chats and hours and hours of Fine Quality Entertainment, raining down in the form of Sky Potatoes!!!!! yes, we will all struggle, yes we will all pull through because, RHLSTP audiences are the smarter audiences, you'll be fine. Bigg Huggs Mr. Herring !!

[@Spankabuttux]

Charlie Brooker is great. He's had so many online twats criticising him for simply advancing his career it's ridiculous. He is so grounded and unaffected it's to his credit. Plus he created one of the greatest three-panel cartoon strips ever for Oink! comic at a really early age, "The Story Of Sleeping Sam"

[@seanp8220]

He predicted the woke culture with Nathan Barley Rise of the idiots. He and Morris were incredibly prescient

[@Spankabuttux]

@@seanp8220 I don't totally agree with that. I am assuming rather than 'woke' you mean streamers who are in love with themselves, and in that case it has expanded but it did exist then, in Shoreditch and other hip areas of metropolitan London. If you did mean woke then you're talking out of your arse.

[@seanp8220]

@@Spankabuttux That level of self obsessed childish pretentiousness existed in Shoreditch but has gone global since. Climb out your arse and learn that wokeness isn't popular. For some reason British people are lagging way behind in the culture wars. Its literally already fallen. And over.

[@seanp8220]

@@Spankabuttux I really despise folks who think it's still 2016. You LOST the culture war - obsessive political correctness and all those morons who espouse it thinking it's regressive nonsense is somehow progressive. You literally had control on every facet of the culture and you managed to utterly lose your beachhead. It's hilarious watching people one by one denounce wokeness as pious and destructive. Everyone apart from a few morons in Britain who still think it's something anyone wants

[@jimmycampbell78]

I think you mean ‘hipsters’, Sean rather than the liberal woke brigade. There was nothing woke about Nathan Barley! He was appalling.

[@kcgeil]

Loved the WH Smith bit as well if I'm honest.

[@davidrobinson2776]

I used to go in WH Smiths to stare at pens, read a mag, stare at books, touch and stare at records and then go downstairs to stare at computer games.

[@calumyoung97]

Love you Rich :)

[@iangillham9647]

Makes you kinda proud that after watching so many serious yank podcasts, you two go beyond rock bottom IN SECONDS!

[@britturk123]

Excellent !!!.

[@nagualdesign]

6am and I'm having to stifle my laughter at the idea of gamifying shitting. 😂

[@TransoceanicOutreach]

23:03 '...beyond the milking, which I hope is rough.' - poor Konnie.

[@woganjones2012]

Imagine a 2020 Screenwipe ....aye caramba!

[@MFTKR]

needs to happen

[@abbas_ali]

Year's only about 1/3 of the way through. The aliens will have landed, we'll have zombies, and vampires by the end.

[@robdew1443]

Search Antiviral Wipe

[@andrewgrant6516]

I didn't even realise you could push buttons in bandersnatch. If you leave it alone it chooses for you. I thought it was just a narrative device.

[@SpookyLuvCookie]

I only continued watching to see if Mr Brooker would actually drink that pint. (at time of posting there's 20 minutes left of the video ... hoping Mr Herring forces him to just down it at the end of the interview)

[@shadshowadradna]

His wife will drink it.

[@RaefonB]

@@shadshowadradna Bonus laugh at the end of the video. Cheers.

[@abitrubbish]

That all went a bit Black Mirror

[@ben1210]

20:51 Charlie is talking about "streaming bloat", Richard chuckles thinking about his massive piss

[@FullInstall]

16:07 glitch in the matrix!

[@abc-oq7dt]

Aye that was a weird yin

[@charlieblimey]

1:07:40 - when you realise Charlie Brooker invented the corona virus to improve the chances of rolling a six...

[@stuartm8335]

People shaking hands. Remember that !

[@thomasandrewclifford]

I cannot decide if this being 4 years old and the same nuclear fear looming over us is oddly comforting or not. I may have to come back to this video in another 4 years and decide.

[@kisbie]

Everything looks more comforting in retrospect. Like Charlie, I've gone from being existentially terrified of the whole Trump phenomena to being pretty chilled about it. Maybe too chilled as I'm almost sorta hoping he gets back in now, just to see what Starmer and co do.

[@VacantHaven]

Ooh you've got a bit of a cold there Rich

[@showtimeshowcase]

street entertainer i feel u herring. much luv m8

[@AmiUnhinged]

I was never much for the idea that you can approach the world with one hand on. The only job I ever saw with one hand on was the car assembly line and frankly that's like...8 arms pretending to be one arm

[@alexhumphries4057]

Dodge the issue.... great line, seems to have been missed by all!

[@guitarspiderbomb]

This was pretty fucking prophetic lol.

[@Aliasalpha]

I love how Charlie said he was feeing more optimistic then immediately starts talking about how people of their age group should just die...

[@Necron00b]

And considering what's going on right now...he can predict the future.

[@zetetick395]

Nothing scarier than a bright eyed optimist, with 'ideas'

[@adamoreilly6337]

Richard is the cure 👍👍👍👍👍

[@ElCID40000]

51:46 An absolultley perfect description of the current decline of western 'civilisaton'. Well said Sir.

[@firstsurname4139]

SCREENWIPE 2000s - 10 years of wiping!

[@FreddieElsom]

Good one! When's Limmy back?

[@richardclark6858]

Adams family pinball was definitely the best..

[@quingquong]

Happier times

[@GilesWendes]

I liked this.

[@neildunford241]

I thought he was going to say, Diane..... ...Abbot..

[@bigjoeangel]

"Gameify the shitting experience" - Charlie Brooker, 2020.

[@TheDwarfShortage]

16:07 WOAH

[@Boylieboyle]

Haha glitch in the matrix

[@jimmycampbell78]

The Ghost of Richard Past

[@helixzin]

1:07:28 Holy shit! Brooker predicted Coronavirus !

[@smacksalad]

If any of us had been paying attention, this has been predicted for a looooooong fucking time.

[@TheStevenWhiting]

Oo nice long one

[@seanp8220]

Ryan is the next Morris Michener

[@davidrobinson2776]

Rich and Stew were on Gamesmaster back in the day! You mean to say they were just doing it for the money?

[@AmiUnhinged]

A Mutable Definition "incoming!" Shouted the guard who manned the curtain wall on the east side. "What is that?" Asked his salty sergeant "Looks like a zombie on my scanner" "Nah it's a gas attack," called the 2nd lieutenant staring through his new telephoto binos. "...nah it's a zombie" the guard twisted his monitor so everyone in ths room could see "it's written in archaic German." It looked like a gas. But really it was nanotechnology. It could be anything. "What like a nazi?" "More like the Evil Queen to be honest. " "Are you f*cking joking? Do you want me to go tell the General f*cking fairies are attacking!?"the Sergeant looked like he was about to have a cardiac event. "No it's clearly a zombie," "I'd argue it." "Witches would argue it: but really we should kill it." "What else would We do with it?" "Do you mean call the f*cking Ghostbusters!?" "Nah, surely not." "If we could capture it somehow, we could sell it," "...are you f*cking tapped?" "Nah. Come on, let me have this one." "Is it valuable?" "Maybe. Nazi zombies are common as," "You'd get more money if it was rare?" "I've got some from Korea." "Not as rare as all that. " "Oh, it didn't know." " I had some good from Egypt." "That was the other nazis" "The Other nazis. Did we not have enough?" "Apparently not,"

[@frankbrodie5168]

The fear of vomiting and hence the obsession with not touching out of date food is an interesting spin. And as a small aside, I am exactly 10 years older than Charlie's wife. Same birthday as Konnie Klub!

[@stebur4277]

Konnie Klub?

[@frankbrodie5168]

@@stebur4277 I've added speech marks to clarify my initial bad grammar.

[@stebur4277]

It's not your grammar I questioned, it's the name "Klub". I thought her surname was (is) Huq.

[@jimmycampbell78]

Probably his auto correct fucking up what he typed. When I try and type it on my device her name changes with autocorrect to Konnie Hug.

[@VonBlade]

No no no. The best Pinball game is clearly Medieval Madness.

[@LoverOfBellies]

Don't suppose anyone knows how recent this one was filmed?

[@bluepineapples7818]

4th November

[@LoverOfBellies]

@@bluepineapples7818 ah OK cool, thanks - I'm only a casual listener so even though the video was posted I wasn't sure how recent it was due to no mentions of COVID-19 & them saying Trump's been in power for 2 years lol, really good interview though & I didn't know Charlie had been on before

[@jezzaus2124]

Hero of the modern age.

[@alan_wood]

Excellent. It looks like Charlie's wish has come true. Goodbye to us oldies...

[@gazriley624]

Just drink the Pint already!

[@davidrobinson2776]

I was thinking the same thing. Charlie needs to realise he’s not skint and sitting in a pub on a Sunday afternoon, nursing a pint until the strippers come on.

[@tobe2199]

I think you'll find Terminator is the greatest pinball game ever.

[@bentaylor3989]

1:04:00 can't believe no one made the obvious "game of thrones" joke

[@kinggimped]

"Is it me, or have the cunts been rolling a 6 for the last 5 years?" -- Charlie Brooker, 2020 It's not just you, Charlie.

[@jasrust]

That film Charlie is talking about is 'Intimacy' where Mark Rylance does indeed have 'unsimulated' sex with Kerry Fox. Strange film.

[@smacksalad]

Please dont die, Rich.

[@davidadams6863]

♡

[@strachanjohnston2858]

finally found something that will stop you going out there huh? More snooker against yourself?

[@dedded101]

Watching them talk about global politics and the rising worries of the world 18 months ago seems so quaint now, as we fight for the last toilet roll while trying to keep 2m from each other...

[@wiseguy100]

If Charlie thinks wrapping Ryan is bad, wait till he sees Morgz!

[@seanp8220]

Are you all on exactly the same channels ?

[@AmiUnhinged]

If there's no road up to beelitz, how did anyone ever find it??

[@AmiUnhinged]

*suspicious face* it is the witch's house, and she will lure us to our deaths surely >.>

[@AmiUnhinged]

There's no helicopter pad :-( there is not even a water reservoir

[@billyunterbuchner9197]

I'm loving the extended begging vlog at the start; and from a self-confessed middle aged man who's had a career in tv!

[@ProjectFlashlight612]

Rick Wakeman has let himself go

[@TheRealSoosh]

"Is it me or have the c**ts all rolled a six the last few years?" Little did Charlie know, in March 2020, there were a few more sixes to come...

[@douglaskalberg8899]

"Is it me, or have the cunts been rolling a six for about five years?" Brilliant mind. :D

[@teatimee]

Pc zone sick notes. superkalow.