The Comedy Crowd Blog

How To Edit Comedy

This video, by Sven Pape of the excellent ‘This Guy Edits‘ YouTube channel is an incredibly valuable insight into comedy creation through the eyes of an editor, specifically Roger Nygard, who has worked on ‘Veep’ and ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’. He talks about a number of key lessons for editing comedy, and many of these should […]

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Creator Of The Week: Holly Hall

This week’s featured creator is Holly Hall, the newly crowned winner of the BBC New Comedy Award’s Digital Comedian of The Year!

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Creator Of The Week: Ania Magliano

This week’s featured creator is Ania Magliano, one of the 4 four regular writers on the ‘Have I Got News For You’ Twitter account.

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Intern Animator Wanted

We are looking for an aspiring animator intern to develop a comedy project. This is a paid role at student intern rates for 5/6 hours per week that would be ideal for someone looking to gain experience alongside their studies or work. Details below! Role: Animator intern – animating comedy content for distribution across multiple digital channels […]

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Creator Of The Week: Izzy Radford

This week’s featured creator is Izzy Radford. Izzy is a bold, young and exciting new writer who leads the Scripted department for TV production company ‘Ten66’.

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How To Handle A Heckler

This video, by the ‘Comedy Without Errors’ YouTube channel is an equally informative and entertaining piece on heckling, and how to respond. It profiles the different types of people who heckle, and the varying responses that can blunt them. Weaved in are some classic examples of comebacks, ranging from the ‘meet fire with fire approach’ […]

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Producing a live comedy show

By Paul Holliday. I’m excited to be producing my first live comedy show, ‘A Little Bit Sketchy‘. And at the Lowry no less! It’s been quite a trek to get the show up and running and thought to share a few bits of my experience.

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Creator Of The Week: Al Jarrett

Welcome to a new feature where we scour the comedy universe for the most promising and innovative new comedy talent. We want to showcase new creators who are doing something a little bit different, or making use of new trends and platforms, so that we can all learn a little something.

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Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Balancing Comedy With Drama

‘Comedy-Drama’ is increasingly being recognised as a genre of it’s own, including a number of the opportunities we share creating specific categories for submissions. But this Nerdstalgic video argues that comedy and drama are already interlinked in the example of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, a fast paced and joke packed police sitcom.

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Why Comedy Feels Like The Internet

A new style of comedy is emerging. It’s a trail blazed by the likes of ‘The Eric Andre Show’ and Tim Robinson’s ‘I Think You Should Leave’. These shows reflect the themes, trends and behaviours observed in the online world, and it’s a rich vein of comedy.

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The 5 Rules For Marketing Using Comedy

In a World where people are perpetually consuming content, brands feel the need to work harder than ever to cut through the fog.

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Could Coca Cola use humour to respond to Ronaldo?

On Monday 14 June 2021, Coca Cola lost $4bn in it’s share price after footballer Cristiano Ronaldo moved two of it’s bottles slightly to the left on a table. Such is the world we live in.

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