Quote: Antrax @ April 26 2008, 11:59 AM BSTI think that's all valid.
Look at it this way - I was one of the winners of the Sketch factor thing two years back. Now, I'm still in touch with quite a few of the other winners, and out of the three I've spoken to, the furthest we managed in this was one of us getting the 'you nearly made the top 40' thing. Just one. The rest of us - nothing at all. And we're all writers who've had a substantial amount of broadcast quality sketches, employed more than once by the Beeb.
In others words, this is one scheme. You do well in one, you do badly in the other. Doing bad in one comp doesn't mean you're bad. On a different day with a different person, you might have done all right.
Agreed!
Like Antrax I was one of the 10 Sketch Factor winners and got nowhere with this. I can't even get my stuff on Tilt at the moment. At this moment in time, I'm the comedy version of Derby County, but that's no reason to jack it all in and give in.... Indeed, since I'd never written a single line of sketch comedy until I tried my hand at Sketch Factor, it'll do me good to get a right boot up the arse and actually find out how hard this comedy lark is.