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A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO MAKING YOUR OWN SITCOM: PART I

By Joanna Tilley Hello and welcome to the first instalment of my guide to help writers through the daunting task of bringing their creative projects to life. Before 2018, I was a virgin in all aspects of film making, and while I still have so much to learn about making content, I would like to […]

Trying Not To Lose Yourself In Other People

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 […]

Why scratch theatre is great for comedy writers

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 […]

Belladonna Comedy: Making a comedy satire site and getting a book deal

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 […]

No Matter How Good You Are At Something There’s Always About A Million People Better Than You: The Journey of a Runner Up

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 […]

Taking a comedy character from idea to pilot

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 […]

Advice on following your dreams, especially those about stand-up comedy

By Martin Jordan I have been an amateur stand up comedian on and off for just over a year. Or nine years if you count the time between my first and second gig because that’s how long it took to overcome my first gig at the London Comedy Store’s king kong. Yes, I am now […]

Making The Best Man

By Jon Benoy My current stage of “I Am Writer Hear Me Roar” includes submitting anything that I feel I can write something worthwhile for, and – in turn – anywhere that is taking submissions. Yes, you feel a little sleazy at times, and occasionally you will sob in the shower, but actually I’d recommend […]

Tales from a new stand-up comic – Beating the Frog

In August 2016 Adam Martin wrote this piece about his first foray into the world of stand-up. His latest post is an update on his journey… Since I last typed at you I’ve done some stand up gigs. Chief among these are the two attempts to Beat the Frog – Manchester’s comedy answer to the […]

How ‘Those Three Girls’ went from script to pilot

‘Those Three Girls’ are a comedy writing/performing trio who won the 2013 Sitcom Mission with their Sitcom, ‘Girlband’, which follows the fans of a 90’s pop band (check out the trailer). We asked them to put together a short video to explain how they took ‘Girlband’ from script to pilot. Girlband is being screened at […]

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