Quote: Aaron @ June 3 2010, 1:56 PM BSTIf you have a good story when Mark is busy or not around, I'm sure he wouldn't mind you forwarding it to me to post.
Really? I'll have to remember that. Cheers, Aaron.
Quote: David Bussell @ June 3 2010, 2:23 PM BSTDid you serve me at McDonalds the other day?
I don't even have a paid job mate. I'm waiting for my course to finish and for the BBC to FINALLY commission some of my stuff.
Quote: john lucas 101 @ June 3 2010, 1:10 PM BSTYeah. There's the 'Who can stuff the most satsumas up Chipolata's arse' competition, for one.
John, John, John... What are we going to do with you? Hey?
Quote: chipolata @ June 3 2010, 3:20 PM BST
John, John, John... What are we going to do with you? Hey?
Sorry mate. I'm a lost cause.
Quote: chipolata @ June 2 2010, 1:13 PM BSTI hates to says it, but Chortles does have a better news section.
Chipolata, does the speed of which we got this story please you?
https://www.comedy.co.uk/news/story/00000317/you_have_been_watching_postponed/
Quote: Ian Wolf @ June 3 2010, 6:45 PM BSTChipolata, does the speed of which we got this story please you?
https://www.comedy.co.uk/news/story/00000317/you_have_been_watching_postponed/
But don't get resting on your laurels! Onwards and upwards!
Quote: chipolata @ June 3 2010, 6:48 PM BST
But don't get resting on your laurels! Onwards and upwards!
I'll try my best. 
Quote: Ian Wolf @ June 3 2010, 6:45 PM BSTChipolata, does the speed of which we got this story please you?
https://www.comedy.co.uk/news/story/00000317/you_have_been_watching_postponed/
Quote: Nil Putters @ June 3 2010, 7:11 PM BST
That doesn't count. You just posted the news on the forum. I wrote up an actual news story.
News smoos. I win. Stop you blabbing. 
*runs away laughing*
Quote: Nil Putters @ June 3 2010, 7:14 PM BSTNews smoos. I win. Stop you blabbing.
*runs away laughing*
Just you wait until I "tip off" the Sun about your "activites".
Am I right in thinking that Chortle is a financially professional affair, whereas BCG is manned by volunteers?
Steve Bennet, the guy behind Chortle, goes to a lot of gigs etc (I imagine as he writes reviews) and therefore will get inside info.
Do the BCG writers get PR releases, invited to press launches, etc? Getting on the PRs' radars would be a good way of getting news too.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ June 4 2010, 8:45 AM BSTAm I right in thinking that Chortle is a financially professional affair, whereas BCG is manned by volunteers?
Steve Bennet, the guy behind Chortle, goes to a lot of gigs etc (I imagine as he writes reviews) and therefore will get inside info.
Do the BCG writers get PR releases, invited to press launches, etc? Getting on the PRs' radars would be a good way of getting news too.
From what I understand, the BCG is a non-profit organisation, so we make no money from it. Steve Bennett created Chortle and writes most of the reviews for it, but I don't know if he makes money from it.
In terms of PR releases, the only ones we tend to get (or at least I tend to get) are the BBC ones, and they are free to access for all from the BBC Press Office.
I've never been invited to a press launch, but that's probably because I live in Stockton-on-Tees and nobody can be arsed to travel up. Mark's from Hampshire, which is still probably too far for most Londoners. I don't know where Aaron lives.
As far as I can tell, they do get invited to quite a lot of things.
Not that they always go. The lazy tikes.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ June 4 2010, 8:45 AM BSTAm I right in thinking that Chortle is a financially professional affair, whereas BCG is manned by volunteers?
Chortle makes more money than the BCG does, but both rely on outside income for the owners.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ June 4 2010, 8:45 AM BSTSteve Bennet, the guy behind Chortle, goes to a lot of gigs etc (I imagine as he writes reviews) and therefore will get inside info.
If he does, they don't go into stories!
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ June 4 2010, 8:45 AM BSTDo the BCG writers get PR releases, invited to press launches, etc?
Yes.
