Charlton Brooker born 3 March is an English writer, television presenter, producer and satirist. He is the creator, writer, and an executive producer of the sci-fi drama anthology series Black Mirror , and has written for comedy series such as Brass Eye , The 11 O'Clock Show , and Nathan Barley. Brooker started his career as a cartoonist; he produced adverts for the second-hand video game retailer CeX before becoming a journalist for PC Zone.
He has presented a number of television shows, mostly consisting of satirical and biting criticism of modern society and the media, such as Screenwipe , Gameswipe , Newswipe , Weekly Wipe , and 10 O'Clock Live.
He also wrote the horror drama series Dead Set. He has written social criticism pieces for The Guardian and is one of four creative directors of the production company Zeppotron.
Charlie Brooker was born on 3 March in Reading, Berkshire. He says that he did not graduate because his dissertation was written on video games, which was not considered an acceptable topic. Brooker did some early work as a cartoonist, and worked in the video game department of Music and Video Exchange, a retailer in Notting Hill Gate , London. When one of the employees left to found the second-hand retailer CeX , Brooker worked in their first shop, produced cartoon advertisements, [ 9 ] and designed their logo.
His early reviews included System Shock [ 11 ] and Fallout One of Brooker's one-shot cartoons caused the magazine to be pulled from the shelves of many British newsagents. The cartoon was titled "Helmut Werstler's Cruelty Zoo" and professed to be an advert for a theme park created by a Teutonic psychologist for children to take out their violent impulses on animals rather than humans. It was accompanied by photoshopped pictures of children smashing the skulls of monkeys with hammers, jumping on a badger with a pitchfork, and chainsawing an orang-utan , among other things.
