Quote: Griff @ December 16 2009, 4:16 PM GMT*realises that even his posts are riddled with cliche and repetition, takes to alcoholism, and gives up writing for years*
Well, it worked for me. 
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I don't use cliches I use genre expectations
Quote: Marc P @ December 16 2009, 4:21 PM GMTI don't use cliches I use genre expectations
Quote: Tim Walker @ December 16 2009, 3:53 PM GMTThis "acting" is likely to be even more accentuated on a site which is meant (mostly) to be about comedy - the stakes are raised to try and say something relatively amusing/interesting/unusual. This can lead to remarks becoming occasionally more polarised/extreme in order to achieve an effect.
See? This is where I've been going wrong, I've been on this site 24/7 trying to enterain you chuckleheads with my awesome awesomeness, when I should have been on a BBC blog saying how brilliant everyone and everything is. (Yes, I ended a sentence with 'is', deal with it, I'm a rebel.)
What a fool I've been!!!
This thread is a complete waste of time. MJ's original blog suggested that at least some of the negative reaction to new comedy was because of snobbishness from wannabees about popular/mainstream TV comedy. Either you agree with that as a truism or you don't - all these pages aren't going to change your mind. I disagree with him, but at the same time his blog was posted on Writersroom, not here, and I assume it was intended to have a particular purpose which probably had more to do with encouraging writing than slapping down any Big Top naysayers.
As I have discussed before in other threads with Aaron, I think people post about liking or disliking shows purely because they like or dislike them. It doesn't have anything to do with snobbishness or whether they see themselves as a writer or anything else. People come to this website first and foremost because they really like comedy - honest, it's true! Sometimes you wouldn't believe it, but it is. If they like it, they'll say so, and if they don't, they'll say so. In my opinion it is bonkers for people to spark up about "wannabees" criticising a new mainstream show out of snobbishness (e.g. Big Top) when at the same time the same "wannabees" are praising a new mainstream show (e.g. Miranda).
Quote: Badge @ December 16 2009, 11:22 PM GMTThis thread is a complete waste of time.
I disagree, for the following reasons...
Quote: Badge @ December 16 2009, 11:22 PM GMTThis thread is a complete waste of time.
And you all know that was where I meant to stop, right?
Sorry Badge but I for one have found reading these pages pretty stimulating re comedy and peoples reasons for being critical of a piece of work.
As some of you may know, as a writer myself, I have reservations of people casting judgement on my own work and if this thread has taught me anything it is that in truth any critique good or bad should be taken with a pinch of salt. Like Dawns scotch broth. Laughs out loud.
In which case I apologise. Smiley face.
I can't help thinking all this negative criticism of new shows would disappear overnight if I was in sole charge of all British TV comedy commissioning.
Laughs out loud.
Quote: Tim Walker @ December 17 2009, 1:16 AM GMTI can't help thinking all this negative criticism of new shows would disappear overnight if I was in sole charge of all British TV comedy commissioning.
Here here! (Gis a job 
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Quote: Tim Walker @ December 17 2009, 1:16 AM GMTI can't help thinking all this negative criticism of new shows would disappear overnight if I was in sole charge of all British TV comedy commissioning.
Suddenly giving up writing and turning to alcoholism doesn't seem so bad. 
Quote: Tim Walker @ December 17 2009, 1:16 AM GMTI can't help thinking all this negative criticism of new shows would disappear overnight if I was in sole charge of all British TV comedy commissioning.
BBC-eefacts.
Quote: Tim Walker @ December 17 2009, 1:16 AM GMTI can't help thinking all this negative criticism of new shows would disappear overnight if I was in sole charge of all British TV comedy commissioning.
Or if they were, er, pretty good. Let's face it, the shows that get a pasting (often vitriloic and out of all proportion) are also a bit, erm, rubbish. With little or no ambition.
Quote: Ben @ December 17 2009, 9:36 AM GMTBBC-eefacts.
Don't even jest about that!