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Animation and comedy

By Sebastian Bance (feature image by https://www.gregdaviesartanddesign.com/) My experiences. Me: “We want you to draw a snakebike.” (Long pause) Jack: “What?” Me: “Snakebike. A snake which can shape-shift into a bike. Can you draw that?” Jack: “Yeah, when do you need it by?” This sort of conversation is why I love animation. An absurd idea of […]

Sweetcorn

By James Dann Sweetcorn is a short film written, conceived and gestated by myself, James Dann and Michael Westwood. It’s made from the cast and crew of Chicago Rice, our Manchester based sketch show. The Sweetcorn plot came from when myself and Michael were up in Glasgow sat outside a Wetherspoons and pondering the surrealness […]

An Album of Open Mic Sets because… Why Not?

by Shawn Wickens Someone once told me, “The creation of any work of art is an invitation for people to hate it.” I can’t remember who said that, maybe a teacher or fellow comedian or a friend. But as an artist – someone who appreciates and even longs for approval, that quote rings true. We […]

Surviving Edinburgh Fringe

By Marysia Trembecka We have just passed the midway point of Edinburgh Fringe (it runs for three and a half weeks in August) and all us Fringe performers are feeling the constant pressure of the shows, late nights, the stresses of ensuring we have audiences that day. Plus there is the need to smooth over […]

How to set up a production company and enter film festivals

Michael James Dean is the founder of comedy production company Posh Dinosaur Productions. He has recently finished taking their latest film “Already Dead” on a successful year long film festival run. Now he’s taken the time to answer questions on setting up a production company, making a short comedy film and entering festivals. There is […]

Making Apple

By Rob Morgan So I had an idea at work. Basically I eat a lot of apples, we’re talking 4/5 a day, that’s my thing. One time I picked up an apple and a thought came to me.. ‘Imagine if a guy ate too many apples, he actually became an apple.’ That was it. I […]

On The Blog – Making a comedy website

By The Duntmeister After 30 years down the Information Technology pit at the data face, I decided to throw the towel in. After throwing the towel, I then left the job, turning my back on the grey world of IT forever and breathed in the fresh clean air of . . . . well . […]

Writing jokes for Have I Got News For You

By Lorna Woolfson (@lolcov) When I went to The Craft Of Comedy Conference in Llandudno in April, I expected, at best, to hear from some people in the comedy biz about how it all works. What I didn’t expect was that I would come away with an opportunity to submit jokes to HIGNFY every week and […]

Look for magic! How to create authentic comedy experiences

By Lynsey Bonell I’m from Amelia Comedy, and we’ve started putting on ‘comedy experiences’. I’ll be honest I’m not sold on the phrase ‘comedy experience’ but I’m 100% bought into the concept. They’re shows where the audience doesn’t just sit in their seats going “that was a clever joke”. Instead it’s something they can get […]

Making the most expensive and offensive thing on the internet

By Dave McKenna The tale of how I became the man making the ‘most expensive & offensive thing ever made for the internet.’ Like many of the episodes of The Hateful Tate it started with too much alcohol and spending unnecessary amounts of money. It was a standard night in Margate, there was a rave […]

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