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Charlie Brooker's 2016 Wipe - Winners' acceptance speech, Comedy and Comedy Entertainment Programme, Virgin TV British Academy Television Awards in 2017

14 May 2017

Winners' acceptance speech by Charlie Brooker and the Production Team of Charlie Brooker's 2016 Wipe in the Comedy and Comedy Entertainment Programme category

CHARLIE BROOKER:  Blimey, okay.  I did not expect that. This is mildly terrifying. 2016 was a pretty horrible year, I thought.  So to receive an award for summarising it is a bit like being commended for doing a really accurate painting of a haemorrhoid.

(Laughter)

Anyway, I would like to thank -- personally I would like to thank my wife, who puts up with this. This is the team who make the show.  It is a huge team effort, so everybody chips in.

(Applause)

And I would like to thank Shane and Alex at the BBC. Everybody here, literally everybody works much harder than I do.  And hopefully, by the time we get to 2017 wipe, we will have a less awful year to summarise. This is really awful.  You are all staring at me. Stop judging me, monsters!

Thank you very much.

(Applause)