It's your best chance of getting sketches read or taken seriously.
Most sketch comics started on open access shows.
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I hear what you're saying, but, for me, it's never led on to anything else. Had stuff broadcast, woo hoo, money, woo hoo, that's it. I'm sure others may have got more out of it than me though.
Well one of the original winners of Sketch Factor and got to write for RFTP has just given up their day job to write comedy full time.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ November 14 2008, 11:38 AM GMTI hear what you're saying, but, for me, it's never led on to anything else. Had stuff broadcast, woo hoo, money, woo hoo, that's it. I'm sure others may have got more out of it than me though.
I suppose it's about taking the initial success and selling it and using it.
Getting a foot in the door then a shoulder.
Never mind fail again, fail better.
RFTP, Tilt and the first series of Play & Record use a lot of non-commissioned stuff (e.g. the credits for some of the Tilt shows were v.long), so the BBC is unlikely to proactively keep in touch with everyone who gets 1 sketch in particular series. However, if you send 3 sketches to RFTP that they really like and 1 or 2 get in, then you'd stand a good chance of, at least, the producer bearing you in mind for their future work. Tilt gave you more chance to get noticed as you could send things in each week, plus partly a topical show, so you could prove you could produce consistently good work to tight deadlines. I made sure I sent in a couple of tightly edited sketches each week, got 2 things in almost word-for-word and was asked for a (complete!) rewrite on another. Off the back of that, I've been asked to submit (non-comm) to 2 other shows. One was for a handful of us from Tilt, while I think the other was part-Tilt and part-people who'd got non-comm stuff to other shows (not sure which).
Also, I think the commissioned writers for Tilt and RFTP have mostly been people who were noticed through non-commissioned stuff, so again shows that BBC is keen to develop new sketch writers.
Quote: Afinkawan @ November 14 2008, 12:13 PM GMTWell one of the original winners of Sketch Factor and got to write for RFTP has just given up their day job to write comedy full time.
Well that's got me told hasn't it; I do apologise. Really.
Does one cut and paste sketches into an e-mail or does one attach them on a separate sheet I wonder?
Send them as a Word attachment preferably.
Or just lob them through the window of Henry Wood House, wrapped round a brick.
I tie mine to bricks and throw them at the windows.
Quote: sootyj @ November 14 2008, 12:57 PM GMTI tie mine to bricks and throw them at the windows.
Never mind your bollocks Sootyj we were talking about submitting sketches.
Ha!
I write the words onto my penis and poke it through the bbc's letterbox.
I've only ever managed to fit SCENE 1.INT on it though. 
Quote: Marc P @ November 14 2008, 12:59 PM GMTNever mind your bollocks Sootyj we were talking about submitting sketches.
It's what I write my sketches on.
They seem to like bollocks.
Arf arf!
Quote: Lee Henman @ November 14 2008, 1:02 PM GMTI write the words onto my penis and poke it through the bbc's letterbox.
RFTP always seem to need more quickie sketches...
Quote: Lee Henman @ November 14 2008, 1:02 PM GMTI write the words onto my penis and poke it through the bbc's letterbox.
I've only ever managed to fit SCENE 1.INT on it though.
They probably thought it was a pro Russell Brand petition.