You mean it's a shit joke? Gotcha. If i put in the critique section I'll also put up the BBC feedback and a summary of the original Jonathon harvey beginning to put the cock jokes into perspective.
Is there anyone on this site that might make it ? Page 6
WWhat is 'making it' anyway? Getting a piece aired? Career? I ask simply because I've had stuff on radio, and although it's nice and all that, there's no way it'll ever pay the bills unless I'm prepared to move to London, which I can't (and even then, 'success' far from certain). I've always figured I will never 'make it' - but perhaps I already have, in relative terms i.e what works for me.
Quote: Pripyat @ August 29, 2007, 10:04 PMWWhat is 'making it' anyway? Getting a piece aired? Career? I ask simply because I've had stuff on radio, and although it's nice and all that, there's no way it'll ever pay the bills unless I'm prepared to move to London, which I can't (and even then, 'success' far from certain). I've always figured I will never 'make it' - but perhaps I already have, in relative terms i.e what works for me.
'Making it' is it being your career - you put 'Writer' on insurance applications, and when asked what you do for a living at dinner parties you can say 'Comedy writer'. And then they say 'Tell us a joke'.
Quote: Seefacts @ August 29, 2007, 10:38 PM'Making it' is it being your career - you put 'Writer' on insurance applications, and when asked what you do for a living at dinner parties you can say 'Comedy writer'. And then they say 'Tell us a joke'.
It IS now my career and I DO put 'writer' on forms but if someone is foolish enough to ask me to a dinner party and demand a joke I shall say 'this is my night off'. Besides, I can't afford a decent outfit to wear at this imaginary bash with alleged friends.
Cool. Do you make a living out of it (the writing), or do you have another job?
No, he's a Sponger!
I wonder what they say to people who 'sign on' saying they're a writer... 'sorry, love but I looked on the boards and couldn't see any writers jobs and there was nothing in the paper either...'
Quote: Pripyat @ August 29, 2007, 10:04 PMWhat is 'making it' anyway? Getting a piece aired? Career? I ask simply because I've had stuff on radio. I've always figured I will never 'make it' - but perhaps I already have, in relative terms i.e what works for me.
I think it's what you want from it, not whether you measure up to other people's definitions. Many successful writers die believing they never 'made' it because their expectations were so much higher. Many amateurs make it when they get their first laugh.
Some targets are attainable, othes aren't. Talent isn't always the key component to attaining them.
Personally, I want commissions (in plural) because I always want more and more. Not from a material POV though.
Quote: Simon Stratton @ August 30, 2007, 12:13 AMCool. Do you make a living out of it (the writing), or do you have another job?
The clue was in 'can't afford'! I put 'writer' when it suits but I do have a real job (self-employed which also involves begging people to want me! Hmm - do I see a pattern developing?). The amount I've clawed from writing so far hasn't covered what I've spent on it BUT I have heard an audience laugh at something I've written a couple of times which is satisfying at the time but tends to be addictive. However I recognise that that is something I would have killed for when I started out so in that sense, yes, I made it.
Quote: SlagA @ August 30, 2007, 10:48 AMI think it's what you want from it, not whether you measure up to other people's definitions. Many successful writers die believing they never 'made' it because their expectations were so much higher. Many amateurs make it when they get their first laugh.
Some targets are attainable, othes aren't. Talent isn't always the key component to attaining them.
Personally, I want commissions (in plural) because I always want more and more. Not from a material POV though.
I'd go along with all of that!
I remember when I first started, you get a buzz from seeing your lines used on a show in front of 300 people. Then that starts to become 'normal' and you start to move into sketch stuff etc etc.
Ultimately I guess it all ends in your own narrative show, and then err, movies!
I remember when I first started, you get a buzz from seeing your lines written down on a piece of paper, and that's as fer as we've got so fer.. yes.
Yes. The buzz of the newly-bought notepad with a freshly-sharpened pencil.
Then with the blank page in front of you, grabbing the pencil and with a winning grin saying, "now I'm going to start my masterpiece"... ah, heady days... it's about then I get up an put the kettle on for the umpteenth time..