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This show is definitely the modern day Twilight Zone. All the episodes have great twists that obviously come from well informed writers.

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The vast majority of them are written by one guy, the shows creator, Charlie Brooker[1]. He's a UK comedian who has written a number of great shows such as "Screenwipe"[3] (a comedy documentary about the TV industry), "A Touch of Cloth"[4] (crime drama satire) and "Nathan Barley"[5] (which pokes fun at the London hipster scene and was co-written by Chris Morris[2] who is another UK TV legend)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Brooker

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Morris_(satirist)

[3] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780206/ (Screenwipe)

[4] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2240991/ (A Touch Of Cloth)

[5] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0426654/ (Nathan Barley)

"A Touch Of Clot" is brilliant. It takes off where "The Naked Gun" left and adds more wordplay. It completely saturates every scene with comedy. There is nowhere to go from there.

I have never before felt exhausted by the fast pace of puns in my life.

> It takes off where "The Naked Gun" left and adds more wordplay.

If you weren't already aware that The Naked Gun started as a TV show called Police Squad! and that it's exactly as great as you'd hope, congratulations because today is the day you get to learn about that.

This sounds like the absolute perfect thing for me, and I'd never even heard of it!

Just a quick check, you've seen Police Squad, right? The precursor series to The Naked Gun. It's only 6 episodes, which always amazes me when I think of how many moments I love in it.

To add on.. Chris Morris also created the satire show The Day Today with Armando Iannucci (Alan Partridge, The Thick of it, Veep)

Don't forget 'Brass Eye' too!

Brooker's brilliant,misanthropic project 'Unnovations' seems to me like the closest spiritual ancestor to Black Mirror- even bleaker, if anything. It's disappeared from the web but still exists in the archive, https://web.archive.org/web/20011006114750/http://www.zeppot... for an example.

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