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Gold's festive joke competition 2016
Can you think up a modern witty Christmas cracker joke? Enter it into TV channel Gold's 2016 festive competition for a chance to win £1,500 in holiday vouchers. The deadline to enter is this Sunday. Details |
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Musical Comedy Awards 2017 The 9th Musical Comedy Awards are now open for entries, with the final set to take place at the Udderbelly on Southbank in 2017. To enter, you just need to post a video of you performing on their Facebook page before the 11th December. Details |
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Seldom Differ: Why we're funding a sketch show on Kickstarter
Comedy group Seldom Differ recently raised £14,000 via Kickstarter to help prove their sketch show would work on television. They explain more here: Read |
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How 'Fail' became a Comedy Feed
Tom Melia, the writer of sitcom pilot Fail, explains how his online web series was adapted to become a BBC Comedy Feeds pilot. Read |
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Sitcom Geeks James Cary and Dave Cohen continue their podcast series focused on comedy writing. Recent episodes include looking at the role of the 'idiot' in a script, and a chat with Script Editor Andrew Ellard. Listen |
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The Comedian's Comedian Podcast Stuart Goldsmith has interviewed over 180 comedians about the craft of comedy. You can find all the episodes via BCG: Listen |
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James Cary blog You probably follow James Cary's blog already, but we do get new subscribers joining every month so it's worth us repeating: his blog features lots of intelligent advice and insight that you should read. Most recently: writing on studio sitcoms. Read |
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Gemma Arrowsmith - Exposure This video from Gemma Arrowsmith is a comedy sketch first and foremost, but there is an interesting point lurking behind the laughs. If you do everything for free, how will you ever make a living? Watch |
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Isy Suttie on method acting In a recent interview about Channel 4 sitcom Damned, Isy Suttie said some interesting stuff about her acting methods. For example, to help her get in to a role, she invents her own backstory for the character. Read |
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Newsjack interview Newsjack, the topical radio show anyone can write for, is off air at the moment but - thinking ahead to trying to get on the next series - this Facebook-based video Q&A featuring the producers is probably still worth a watch. Watch |
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Sara Pascoe interview Sara Pascoe gives some good stand-up tips in this interview. For example, if a joke falls flat she pretends it wasn't a joke. Read (If reading about stage deaths helps you feel better when one of your gigs doesn't go well, there's some horror stories in our First Gig, Worst Gig column) |
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Podcast interview with BBC Radio's Julia McKenzie The Ask The Industry podcast recently chatted with Julia McKenzie, the Executive Editor at BBC Radio Comedy. It's an interesting interview in which Julia gives lots of insight into working with the department and how to approach them with ideas. Listen |
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Jewish Comedian of the Year Are you Jewish? If so, you might want to enter JW3's UK Jewish Comedian of the Year Award 2016. You need to send them a video clip by Sunday 6th November 2016 to enter. Read |
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Female comedian survey Are you a female comedian? If so, Oxford University (in collaboration with the Funny Women organisation) would like to hear from you. They're running a study on personality traits in female comedians. Find out more and take the online survey here: Take Part |
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Sitcom Mission Congratulations to Nick Flugge. Ups & Downs, his sitcom about a police helicopter team, won The Sitcom Mission 2016 competition. Lots of executives and producers were in attendance at the final yesterday, so fingers crossed all the scripts get optioned soon. The competition will be back in 2017. Website |
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Tom Davis Not too long ago, Murder In Successville star Tom Davis was a scaffolder. Now he's an in-demand comedy actor who has just been named a BAFTA Breakthrough Brit. In this short video he talks about that, and the importance of knowing people above you on the 'comedy ladder'. Watch |
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British Comedy Guide forums We have six forums on our message board for those who create comedy. There's lots of users looking for people to work with in our new-ish collaborators section: Opportunities Writers' Discussion Performance Discussion Looking for Collaborators Showcase Critique |
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Harley Quinn Halloween Costume Tutorial Maddie Campion posted this Halloween themed contribution in our Showcase forum. It's a character-based sketch in which she explains to viewers how to dress up as Harley Quinn from the film Suicide Squad. The character's end outfit doesn't quite match the film though. YouTube |
(If you've ever made a Halloween comedy video please send it to us - just reply to this email, we're going to be featuring some sketches this Monday)
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