Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker was back hosting Have I Got News For You on Friday (November 11) and you can bet the mastermind behind the maybe-not-so-dystopian Netflix series had a thing or two to say about the news that Donald Trump has been elected President of the United States.

In fact, to show his angst about the news, he decided to open the show with a blood-curdling scream - which is pretty understandable, considering searches for nuclear shelters have sky-rocketed since the result came in on Wednesday morning (November 9).

You can watch said scream below:

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But he wasn't done yet.

In fact, Brooker had something, again, pretty apt and possibly even more tragic to say when discussing the result later on in the show, deciding that the results showed that U.S. voters "may actually be very progressive".

Just not in a good way.

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"Sure, it may be bad news for minorities and women and the other many, many people he has insulted," he said.

"But on the plus side, progressively, they've elected their first openly crazy man to the most powerful office in the world."

And Brooker concluded the election news by saying that the U.S. had discovered that, "after all these years of trying to impose it on the rest of the world, democracy may, in fact, be shit".

The comments come just days after the Black Mirror team denied the outcome of the election was a hoax or stunt on their part, pretty much summing up our thoughts about the outcome in one depressing tweet.

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"This isn't an episode," they tweeted. "This isn't marketing. This is reality."

Try telling that to the Big Brother USA contestants, who found out about the result from inside the house.

And no. They couldn't quite believe it, either.

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