Recorded For Training Purposes (Series 3) Page 37

Quote: chris dino @ January 7 2009, 11:08 AM GMT

Have people started to hear back if their sketch has made the final broadcast then? Mine was recorded on monday, which I missed. If it's made it into the final programme I really wouldn't want to miss that too.

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I'm not sure if you'll find out in advance - I think there's only ever been one time that's happened throughout the run, and even then things can change til the last minute. I'd thoroughly recommend listening to every episode just in case!

Liking the episode guide. I'd make a couple of corrections - I think it's Tom Deighton (not Dayton), and it's certainly worth mentioning Madelaine Brettingham as one of the writers. Probably the most successful of the Sketch Factor winners, she's now also writing TV Burp.

AK - Yep, the first was with Kate (the bit where his mum rings up was my sketch factor submission). I thought I'd invented the word bidiot too, until I Googled it....

Antrax - I think Madelaine's success really does prove that these things are worthwhile and provide genuine opportunities to progress. It's great she's done so well.

Quote: Pripyat @ January 7 2009, 9:39 AM GMT

Nice synopsis. I think co-creating Brian Mason the quiz show character with Kate was my number one achievement from being involved with the whole sketch factor thing (I was all downhill from there) - and I loved listening to Coleman camping it up. Brian could have come back for s2, but in true style I wrote a real dog of a sketch and screwed up any comeback. Gah!

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I considered writing a Brian sketch for series 2. Involving him trying to run a quiz without being allowed a phone in...

Mine was similar, heavily regulated. But, alas, just failed miserably....

I think my favourite sketch across the first two series' was the Ceefax adult entertainment one. Colin Hoult performed that one, I think, at the first recording where Dominic was absent. Dunno who wrote it but I was almost in tears.

I think my favourite achievement was writing one of the Laura Gavin sketches and at the end getting an audience reaction where half of them laughed and the other half went, "aaawwww " at the thought that the entire British army were leaving Iraq rather than go on a date with her.

I think my favourite sketch/gag throughout the whole thing has been the one right at the start of the first episode where the guy finds the name of Allah in the seeds in his aubergine. "So what did you do then?" - "I realised that I had a blasphemous aubergine".

I don't know who wrote that but I'd guess it was James.

Quote: Antrax @ January 7 2009, 12:41 PM GMT

I'm not sure if you'll find out in advance - I think there's only ever been one time that's happened throughout the run, and even then things can change til the last minute. I'd thoroughly recommend listening to every episode just in case!

Liking the episode guide. I'd make a couple of corrections - I think it's Tom Deighton (not Dayton), and it's certainly worth mentioning Madelaine Brettingham as one of the writers. Probably the most successful of the Sketch Factor winners, she's now also writing TV Burp.

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Cool thanks! Was planning to listen to them all anyway, but would be nice to be able to tell other people. Mum, dad etc Also it's going to be disapointing listening to them all to only find out it's been cut. Oh well!

Quote: chris dino @ January 7 2009, 1:10 PM GMT

Cool thanks! Was planning to listen to them all anyway, but would be nice to be able to tell other people. Mum, dad etc Also it's going to be disapointing listening to them all to only find out it's been cut. Oh well!

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It's the nature of the beast unfortunately. You can either not tell anyone until you hear your sketch on air, then send everyone the Listen Again/iPlayer link. Or you could just hack the BBC website so that your name appears on the list of writers.

Quote: Afinkawan @ January 7 2009, 1:06 PM GMT

I think my favourite achievement was writing one of the Laura Gavin sketches and at the end getting an audience reaction where half of them laughed and the other half went, "aaawwww " at the thought that the entire British army were leaving Iraq rather than go on a date with her.

I think my favourite sketch/gag throughout the whole thing has been the one right at the start of the first episode where the guy finds the name of Allah in the seeds in his aubergine. "So what did you do then?" - "I realised that I had a blasphemous aubergine".

I don't know who wrote that but I'd guess it was James.

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For me, I loved the Ceefax porn. And I'm a big fan of the Richard Dawkins sketch (Richard Hawkins destroys your dreams, or some such... Lines such as him interrogating Santa and saying he'd been a good boy - apart from the time he called God a bell-end). And the 'Bummer tied to a Tree' send up of the childishness of Today and Newsnight.

Which reminds me - Matt Morton should be on the main page of the guide too!

Yes I liked the Richard Dawkins one. I didn't write it but it came from my suggestion of Richard Dawkins doing a new book called the Father Christmas Delusion.

And yes, 'Bummer tied to a tree' was just as funny on stage as when he said it in the meeting.

Quote: Afinkawan @ January 7 2009, 1:12 PM GMT

It's the nature of the beast unfortunately. You can either not tell anyone until you hear your sketch on air, then send everyone the Listen Again/iPlayer link. Or you could just hack the BBC website so that your name appears on the list of writers.

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That's a good idea. I shall do exactly that!

Quote: Antrax @ January 7 2009, 1:18 PM GMT

For me, I loved the Ceefax porn. And I'm a big fan of the Richard Dawkins sketch (Richard Hawkins destroys your dreams, or some such... Lines such as him interrogating Santa and saying he'd been a good boy - apart from the time he called God a bell-end).

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That's so weird, I submitted a sketch where God calls someone else a bell-end.

Luckily another sketch of mine made it into the show so I'm not sitting dwelling on how I got the combination of God and bell-end wrong for maximum funny.

Quote: chris dino @ January 7 2009, 1:33 PM GMT

That's a good idea. I shall do exactly that!

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Going to iPlayer or the hacking?

Credits for the first two shows are up...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/recordedfortraining.shtml

Cheers,
Ed.

Cheers Ed. That's excellent for this sort of thing!

Dan

Hey I got one on. Hurrah, very happy! Thank you very much, Ed! I feel like hugging someone. Difficult to express how happy I am without appearing a little kiss-a***, but very happy. Thanks!

I take it John-Luke Roberts and James Sherwood were both commissioned writers (those young whipper-snappers).