There are some things even I wouldn't do. This isn't one of them however, so you're well in.:-)
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Quote: jacparov @ May 14 2008, 12:24 AM BSTThere are some things even I wouldn't do. This isn't one of them however, so you're well in.:-)
Liar. You love Ricky Gervais and you want to marry him. FACT. 
Right. Bed.
Lies! I love Merchant, Gervais is just the hobbit I have to pleasure to get to Gandalf!
*If that makes ANY sense?*
a) I will happily welcome Jacparov as my man whore.
b) If Ricky comes a-knocking, Jacparov will have to hide under the bed. With Steve Merchant.
Quote: Pripyat @ April 26 2008, 4:21 PM BSTAgreed!
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.
Derby County? Pah! I'm a pub team, in fact I'm a substitute for the pub team and they only bring me along cos I drive a people carrier. Musically, I am the Barren Knights. I am a desert of comedy, I once told a joke in The Sahara and people laughed at least I thought they did but it was a mirage. Entire nations would cross tundra to escape my humour. I could single-handedly populate space from the implied threat of hearing just one my gags.
I'm happy either way, nighty night.
P.s. Do i have to wear the gimp outfit tonight? Just once I'd like to wear the Boris Johnson outfit. So unfair.
The Boris and the gimp outfit are one and the same. 
Quote: jacparov @ May 13 2008, 11:55 PM BSTA story about a single mother, guntoting, hoodie wearing, nigerian suicide bombing scammer; who drives a taxi and shoots anyone who votes and uses the tram. Sounds good.
But then look at your Avatar, that is pure evil.
That's just a cover up
Quote: swerytd @ May 13 2008, 8:52 PM BSTNew blog up (with plenty of 'discussion' below it) http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/writersroom/2008/05/college_4.shtml
Dan
Just going back to Mikey Mikey Mikey Jake's blog for a second, some of those comments below his fourth are pretty ungracious to say the least. Some are plain embarrassing. I mean, when the six winners are revealed to be writer/performers, Mr Jacob might as well have said he'd picked six Bullingdon Club members for all the howls of 'conspiracy!' and doom-laden self-flagellation that followed.
Maybe performers simply made better writing candidates in terms of their past development? Better in the context of what was required for this particular scheme, I hasten to add.
Quote: oldcowgrazing @ May 13 2008, 11:44 PM BSTI think they mean 'Health of the Nation' in a broader sense..as in current cultural/social issues. Immigrants. Suicide bombers.Hoodies. Single muvvers. Nigerian scammers. London underground. Eastern European immigrants stealing our jobs. Parents going to church to get their kids in the right school. Political apathy. Gun crime. Social exclusion/inclusion. People who arrived in the country 24 hrs ago, buy a clapped out car and call themselves mini cab drivers. That sort of thing.
I think.
Emmerdale then?
Bugger.... I miss-read it.....I thought it was Elf of the Nation... I've just spent 2 weeks writing a script about a midget who becomes a tennis pro, becomes the public's favorite and goes on to win Wimbledon....
kjs
Quote: oldcowgrazing @ May 13 2008, 11:44 PM BSTI think they mean 'Health of the Nation' in a broader sense..as in current cultural/social issues. Immigrants. Suicide bombers.Hoodies. Single muvvers. Nigerian scammers. London underground. Eastern European immigrants stealing our jobs. Parents going to church to get their kids in the right school. Political apathy. Gun crime. Social exclusion/inclusion. People who arrived in the country 24 hrs ago, buy a clapped out car and call themselves mini cab drivers. That sort of thing.
I think.
London Underground? Health of the Nation? What a load of Londoncentric crap that is, although the rest was ok I'll give you that.
Quote: oldcowgrazing @ May 13 2008, 11:44 PM BSTI think they mean 'Health of the Nation' in a broader sense..as in current cultural/social issues. Immigrants. Suicide bombers.Hoodies. Single muvvers. Nigerian scammers. London underground. Eastern European immigrants stealing our jobs. Parents going to church to get their kids in the right school. Political apathy. Gun crime. Social exclusion/inclusion. People who arrived in the country 24 hrs ago, buy a clapped out car and call themselves mini cab drivers. That sort of thing.
I think.
What a boring story that'd be 
Mine's got a scene in a doctors office and a few lines about the general mood of the nation, not much more. I'm figuring as it's a thing to showcase your writing, rather than anything they're planning to commission, they're not going to reject it on the basis that it's too tenuous a link. And if they do, then I've still written something I'm pleased with and I'll be rejected on a technicality, rather than being shit.
Quote: Nigel Kelly @ May 14 2008, 9:56 AM BSTLondon Underground? Health of the Nation? What a load of Londoncentric crap that is.
You have a point.