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Charlie Brooker's 'Sun Poem' On '10 O'Clock Live' Is Nothing Short Of Genius (VIDEO)

Huffington Post UK   Alastair Plumb First Posted: 16/02/2012 09:01 Updated: 16/02/2012 11:39

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Charlie Brooker has written a poem about The Sun. Reading it out on last night's 10 O'Clock Live show on Channel 4, many won't have seen his lyrical wisdom, but we're not going to let you miss out, no sir.

Riffing off the fact that Rupert Murdoch's biggest newspaper in the UK is claiming it's a victim of a "witch-hunt" - despite the fact it's hunted down more than a few metaphorical witches in its time - the Guardian columnist and man behind recent Channel 4 sci-fi series Black Mirror lets rip like only he can.

Listing pretty much every single person, group, and idea that The Sun has pointed the finger of disgust at over the years, it's an entrancing, worrying, highly entertainly couple of minutes that'll remind you that despite its patchiness, satirical comedy show 10 O'Clock Live can still make you laugh really rather hard.

Of course, this isn't the first really rather funny thing Charlie's done over the years - just take a look at our Charlie Brooker best of video gallery below for proof...

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Charlie Brooker has written a poem about The Sun. Reading it out on last night's 10 O'Clock Live show on Channel 4, many won't have seen his lyrical wisdom, but we're not going to let you miss out, no...
Charlie Brooker has written a poem about The Sun. Reading it out on last night's 10 O'Clock Live show on Channel 4, many won't have seen his lyrical wisdom, but we're not going to let you miss out, no...
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Scott Bert
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07:13 on 29/02/2012
I definitely do not agree. They HAVE witch-hunted witches...
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Paul Houston
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21:23 on 18/02/2012
Charlie Brooker is a genius, I love the way he takes the media to task.
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abbadabba
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00:06 on 18/02/2012
Oh, thank you! Folks were saying it was cut off at the end, but here you gave me the entire roll...OMG, East Enders? Is that a good show? I'm guessing the Brit's Sopranos. And wasn't Bekah married to the bald one and got in a row and went to jail while Rupert waited at an event at which she was to be honored? OMG!!! This scandal is turning me into a scandalous pig!! Oink.
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vividrick
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21:41 on 16/02/2012
Fantastic!
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eastwoodmaniac
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20:24 on 16/02/2012
Watched it live last night. It was as funny and as relevant as it was an impressive feat of linguistics. Bravo!
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kettlecharlie
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19:02 on 16/02/2012
Brilliant
Anybody disagree?
Play it again, Sam
and listen to the list
And Charlie has probably missed a huge number of those
the press asks you, the reader, to hate.
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K Hereford
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17:30 on 16/02/2012
Btritain's best selling newspaper, 60 % of the population describe themselves as middle class- we are doomed
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yoz
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15:44 on 16/02/2012
Satire at its best , the crashing hipocrsy of the press .
They claim to hold wrong doers to account when infact all they do is invent misrepresent and smear.
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rabidrightwatch
Green leftie, planning for a sustainable future
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15:43 on 16/02/2012
Heard it on 10 o'clock live last evening - classic...

No doubt Charlie's poem will get up some peoples' noses and others will applaud... I applaud..

In any case, anyone who can stand up to Rupert and his lot deserves a medal in my book..

Well done, Charlie - keep up the pressure on the Sun; that red-top rag that pretends to be a newspaper, rather than a comic..
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Anne13
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15:21 on 16/02/2012
Very clever. How did he remember all that? Even if he had an autocue it was aamazing.
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azbenahmed
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15:26 on 16/02/2012
Definitely. It didn't sound like pure autocue he must have learnt most of it.
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Tracey1971
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14:25 on 16/02/2012
Brooker has never and will never be funny. Can't stand him.
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azbenahmed
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15:25 on 16/02/2012
Some people don't get satire. It's not your fault, dear.
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lariat
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15:41 on 16/02/2012
That's atire? The unfunniest man on TV.
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tupperware
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16:39 on 16/02/2012
Not satire, just Brooker's usual foul mouthed ranting.
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Termin8r
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12:50 on 18/02/2012
You go straight past the message and just tell the world you don't like the messenger. Very clever.
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Urbane Worrier
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14:21 on 16/02/2012
*Stands to applaud*
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