We all know there are thousands of amazing comedy creators making hilarious, original productions. And putting them on YouTube, Vimeo or social media, with no clear direction or purpose. Just waiting for an opportunity. That call from a broadcaster who spots them drifting in the giant ocean of media content. A call that seems so unlikely to come […]
Continue Reading
By Chris Head and Steve Whiteley I’m Chris Head, and in this blog Steve Whiteley and I will be discussing online comedy sketches and shorts. I’m a comedy director, coach, script-editor and author of “A Director’s Guide to the Art of Stand-up”. Steve (pictured above on “Swiped” shoot) is an actor, film maker and the […]
Continue Reading
By Joanna Tilley (@JoannaTilley) I hope we can all agree that the Comedy Crowd and its weekly newsletter has brought a lot of joy into our email lives. Not only is it full of opportunities for new comedy writers, but it has links to some great inspirational articles and I think most importantly of all […]
Continue Reading
By Joz Norris. I’ve found this blog very difficult to write, weirdly. The initial draft essentially waxed lyrical about some of my comedy inspirations when I was growing up (Marion & Geoff and The Trip in particular) and praised the fact that neither of those were obviously mass-appeal, marketable ideas, but both of them really doubled down on […]
Continue Reading
By Stevie Cooke. I’m the first to admit, I’m a submissions junkie. If you’re anything like me, you’ll spend your time trawling through the internet finding any open opportunities that might be suitable for your work. Or not – sometimes I’m not fussy, I’ll enter anything just to get that submissions high… A few years […]
Continue Reading
Sounds like the dream right? Brooke, Caitlin, Carrie and Fiona make up Belladonna Comedy. They run their own popular satire website and are shortly releasing their first book “New Erotica for Feminists”. We had the pleasure of catching up with them and finding out how they did it. There’s some great advice in here for […]
Continue Reading
By Jon Holmes. In 2017 comedian Hari Kondabolu created the documentary “The Problem With Apu“. It was a made-for-TV doc that addressed the racial incoherence of a fictional character: Apu Nahasapeemapetilon. While I don’t claim to be of any sort of minority, I certainly always admired The Simpsons and still to this day will cite […]
Continue Reading
An interview with Steve Whiteley, creator of the comedy character Wisebowm, recently commissioned for a 30 minute BBC Radio 4 pilot. OK so it’s a 26 minute video, but that’s just because there is so much gold here for comedy creators. If you don’t want to watch 2 blokes chatting for that long and want […]
Continue Reading
By Chris Head I coach and direct stand-up and am the author of “A Director’s Guide to the Art of Stand-up”. Meanwhile I have an annual gig working with undergraduates at Bath Spa University to develop a multi-cam studio sitcom, I coach writers and I am about to script-edit a BBC Radio 4 sitcom pilot. […]
Continue Reading
By Jon Ornoy, Producer and Director, Animal Mother Films. As an independent producer, figuring out how to do a lot with a little is pretty much the name of the game, and as I now embark on producing my first narrative feature film that maxim is only proving more true. The other guiding principle that […]
Continue Reading
By Chris Head. So you want to create a comedy character. Perhaps it’s a character for you to perform or for a sitcom/comedy drama script. In this blog I am particularly thinking of narrative comedy script characters, but these thoughts can be equally useful for sketch characters and so on. Here are some ways you […]
Continue Reading
OK comedy creators. We know building an audience sounds like a bloody daunting nightmare. One of those where the cold sweat makes the bed all clammy with Facebook likes. But now it’s time for a totally fresh start. Forget making a website, a mailing list, all that stuff. Now you have a brand new page […]
Continue Reading
© Comedy Crowd 2024