Charlie Brooker on Hannan: not even close to being funny

Charlie Brooker's columns are so funny and brilliantly written they actually make you want to buy the Guardian. As a media satirist, he is second to few - right up there with Armando Iannucci and Chris Morris. When he mocked me mercilessly in print about a documentary on the Upper Class I made a few years back, I considered it the most tremendous honour.

Why is he so great? Well apart from his gloriously surreal analogies, his no-holds-barred fearlessness, his mastery of Swiftian invective and hi