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26 February 2013
Charlie Brooker may have acquired The Thick of It creator Armando Iannucci’s talent for timing and clairvoyance.
Yesterday, the day the Italian election results were announced (with a quarter of the votes going to Beppo, a stand-up comedian whose only policy was to kick out career politicians), Brooker’s latest Black Mirror drama was screened on Channel 4. The plot? A comedian, with a similarly negative, anti-politician agenda, causes chaos in an election by providing the voice and scabrous views of Waldo, an animated blue bear.