Remember the video about The Daily Mail? Well, here’s another adorable and clever English fellow tearing apart a crappy “news” rag: this time, it’s CharlieIsSoCoolLike on Heat magazine:
Seriously, subscribe to him. He’s fabulous and he’s a skeptic and Stephen Fry does his outro!
Rebecca leads a team of skeptical female activists at Skepchick.org and appears on the weekly Skeptics' Guide to the Universe podcast. She travels around the world delivering entertaining talks on science, atheism, feminism, and skepticism. There is currently an asteroid orbiting the sun with her name on it. You can follow her every fascinating move on Twitter: @rebeccawatson.
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coollike
04.22.2010
Hey, that’s me! Yay ^_^
Kikii
04.22.2010
All Womens magazines are evil…
I’ve always just stayed well clear of them.
I stick with New Scientist!
Sidenote: Charlie and his videos are wonderful!
dreamfish
04.22.2010
A young person more interested in politics than entertainment news? Obviously a fraud as this is *not* the image of young people that the Daily Mail tells me – he’s not even wearing a hoodie.
captzimmo
04.22.2010
Did you notice the totally cool image on his monitor?
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=7314
MarianLibrarian
04.22.2010
@coollike:
I’ve just been watching a bunch of your videos. You’re pretty awesome. I like the fact that you really dissect pop culture phenomena in an intelligent way.
Donald Sinclair
04.22.2010
Charlie Brooker on so-called ‘Real Life’ magazines:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2006/mar/17/tvandradio.charliebrooker
Heat is a seriously creepy read though. People look at the photo and think ‘ooh look it’s Tess Daly’ or whatever, forgetting that if you could see the wider picture you’d see a fat ugly bloke shoving his camera in their face.
Celebrities should be allowed to chase paparazzi, and if they catch them they’re allowed to smash their camera. It would make the pictures more interesting, anyway.
Kristin C.
04.22.2010
I love the fact that I kept having this question in the back of my head during the entire video, and then at the very end he answered it.
Tina
04.22.2010
This video needs debunking.. Intelligent and worldly young people are obviously a hoax…. And Rebecca, do you have a cite for your “adorable,” comment?
mhmm.
SteveT
04.22.2010
By a totally weird coincidence, I just watched one of his videos on YouTube last night after doing a search for “acapella duets”. Had never heard of Charlie before then, and now to see him today on Skepchick? Definitely a WTF moment!
Bjornar
04.22.2010
When I become dictator there will be a stupidity tax. The stupider I think a thing is, the higher it will be taxed. Celebrity magazines will be in the 200% bracket.
intimeoflilacs
04.22.2010
AHHH now i know what Heat is, i just watched an episode of the IT crowd where it came up. i mean i made an assumption and all but this was very informative.
tempestbrewer
04.24.2010
He is indeed both adorable and clever! <3 Carl Sagan tee, as well.
whatbluedot
04.26.2010
OMG He’s so adorable, I want to eat him!
CobaltG
04.27.2010
Love it! I’ll bang him! lol oh wait I’ll go back on topic- Reminds me of my mom’s horrible People magazine. It should be called “Slutty Celebrity” magazine in my opinion.
Maleficent
04.27.2010
That was excellent work. And Charlie is obviously cool since he and I have the same computer screen background. SUB-scribed!
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