Product Description

"TV Go Home" is Britain's most infamous comedy magazine - a cult spoof of both television and TV listings magazines such as the "Radio Times". Its humour attracts over 150,000 readers a month - an audience that is constantly growing. This book is that website - multiplied by eight and presented in a handy, portable paper-and-inkward edition. Based on Britain's most popular comedy website, "TV Go Home" is a spoof listings magazine that does for the Radio Times what The Onion did for newspapers. Savage, satirical, surreal, and frequently incredibly stupid, this book should make you laugh out loud.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #342271 in Books
• Published on: 2001-10-15
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages

About the Author
Zeppotron co-founder Charlie Brooker is the creator of tvgohome.com, a hugely successful comedy website that attracts around 400,000 hits per month. His previous writing credits include The Guardian, The 11 O'clock Show, E4.com, Loaded, Select, Ministry, The Daily Telegraph, Dreamcast, PC Zone, Oink!, and Stuff. He has also worked as a cartoonist and illustrator, creating comic strips and pictorial articles for many of the above publications. He was writer-presenter of BBC Radio One's Digital Update, co-presented BBC Knowledge technology show The Kit and currently writes a weekly TV column for the Guardian Guide.

Customer Reviews

Fantastic.
With more than touch of the Chris Morris about it, this is a truly hilarious paper archive of one of the best sites on the internet. Who would have thought that spoof TV listings could provide so much amusement?

Occasionally savage, often surreal, always very funny, and execptionally well written, this is just great stuff. Its also quite a shock seeing something on paper which contains all the vitriol that you can see on the internet.

Highly recommended.

Just as good as the website
The website which has spent the past two years satirising TV programmers increasingly bizarre ideas transfers easily from cyberspace to coffee table. All the long running series are here inclunding the obnoxious Nathan Barley, Mick Hucknall and his unique brand of exhibitionism and 'The ten tasks of one-armed one-legged Hercules.' Unfortunately the book spells the end of the online version but it makes a great archive of one the few comedy sites worth remembering.

Savage genius, the serrated blade of truth.
The book of the brilliant web-page works well, loads of extra bile and hilarious throughout. Nathan Barley, insert expletive here, even has his own tv channel, in the same vein as UKgold, showing non-stop c***.

Everything banal and dumb on TV gets rightly crucified, plus the celebrity "press", eg. Heat magazine, which should make all those hopelessly addicted to that culture as shameful as Judas.

Charlie Brooker is up there alongside Chris Morris as the best social commentators in Britain. This is an essential book with a simple message, wake up now!