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Image: The most cutting of critics Best known for: Screen Wipe and News Wipe Early life: Born in Reading in 1971, Brooker first worked as a writer and cartoonist for Oink!, a comic produced in the late 1980s. He attended the Polytechnic of Central London - studying for a BA in Media Studies - but never graduated. He began writing for PC Zone and one of his cartoons caused the magazine to be pulled from the shelves. Career: From 1999 to 2003 he penned the satirical TVGoHome website, regular series of mock TV schedules published in a format similar to that of the Radio Times. Brooker began writing a TV review column entitled "Screen Burn" for the Guardian newspaper's Saturday entertainment supplement The Guide in 2000. Brooker was one of the writers of the Channel 4 show The 11 O'Clock Show and a co-host of BBC Knowledge's The Kit. Together with Brass Eye's Chris Morris, Brooker co-wrote the sitcom Nathan Barley, before launching his signature show, Screen Wipe, in 2006. The follow-up was a major hit under the title of News Wipe. He also wrote Dead Set, a five-part zombie horror thriller for E4 set in the Big Brother house.