Blenkinsop
Friday 13th March 2009 10:56am
2,014 posts
Wotcher Dan,
I think that your comments would be OK if the sketches were going to be "stand alone" ideas for general consumption, but in the context of the brief we were working to then I would have to disagree.
The idea was for the material to be topical and reflective of the current news and sport etc for the week and both of these are / were.
The first isn't an attempted take off of a property show. It's a comment on the Jacqui Smith story relevant to that week (two houses both subsidised one by us punters and the other her sister) with the property show as the vehicle for the dig. The joke's Jacqui and the money and not property shows per se.
The second was again very of the day / week that the story broke so was once more right "on the brief" I thought. And although it was covered in most media it wasn't exactly a biggie so I would never have seen the punch as "predictable" in this context - and hey, even though I wrote the punch it still surprises me 
I think that your idea of bringing in something leftfield is not relevant to the joke. Again it is what it is and no need for a twist.
Now of course whether or not the sketches were any good - that is an entirely different matter and one down to one's own personal taste My reply here is just about your crit and not the quality or lack of same in the actual sketches themselves
I'm not saying that these are brilliant or that I was robbed or owt, just that in this case I feel that your crit misses the point a bit.
Doubtless a cue here for the inevitable lurkers to give it the old "Can't take criticism" routine (the cry that always goes up in a vain attempt to wind people up who seek to defend their own position) but on this occasion I'll risk it to make my own views clear.
And anyway I think you know me (virtually) well enough to know that I am not particularly precious about what I do.
Oh yeah!? 
Cheers matey.
B
