Quote: Aldrin @ July 15 2010, 6:21 PM BSTFailed Comedy Writer! Don't stray from slagging the beeb to slagging writers in the same boat. Especially when all they've done to offend you is get a sketch on.
To be pedantic, all they've done is make it to the recording.
Only 50% of that makes it to the actual broadcast.
Quote: sootyj @ July 15 2010, 10:54 PM BSTI had a quickie. 2 years writing. Why do I bother?
On the other hand, well done Soots!
Oh you know me I'm more miserable than Morrisey in an abbatoir.
You silly man! 
I thought I was a charming man.
A punctured egotistcal
On a hillside desolate
Will newsjack make a clown of me yet ?
Will I be the next Jimmy Carr
That charming man
Why pamper life's comedy
When the laughter runs smooth
On the comedic defeat ?
I would be on the stage tonight
But I haven't got an itch to swear
My fans said "It's gruesome that someone so gladsome should care"
Getting a quickie after a two years' work is good. A lot of us have been trying for longer and nothing. Keep going Sooty.
Ok thanks. Have you tried Newsrevue? It can be a lot more satisfying, is easier, pays more and you can f**kety bollox (as well as never self censoring).
Sorry I'm a miserable ingrate.
Beg to differ on the easier thing, as you well know.
Dan
It's because you're too polite. Typing your nicey nice sketches with your pinky finger sticking out, sipping camomile tea, a wet flannel on your forehead, listen to ambient CDs of whale song played on panpipes.
My first sketch I sold was George Bush shitting his pants and trying to get Tony to wipe his arse. Or was it the one where David Attenborough filmed doggers for the brown planet?
Ether way get with the filth.
Congrats to those who've made it. One more chance for the rest of us...
Why not make a major news event just before the deadline then send the sketch imediately?
e.g. throw a dog turd at DaveyC during one of his man of the people walk abouts.
I'm going to side with Sooty on this. There's something about getting something on that immediately makes you go 'yeah that was alright but what about all the stuff that was much better that you rejected?'.
Yes I am aware that anyone who hasn't got THE e-mail hates me right now and I should be grateful for what I have. But Newsjack does strange things to a man.
I think all writers who get on would feel that, but no one really knows what is funny, and a lot of good stuff gets rejected.
I know that sounds diplomatic...
Even if 90 percent of what they get is dreck, the other ten percent could probably make twenty odd shows of equal quality. It's a lottery.
Quote: StephenM @ July 16 2010, 12:53 PM BSTBut Newsjack does strange things to a man.
It certainly does. Since starting this whole 'Newsjack' thing, I've:
Only read news stories that have the potential to be funny.
Listened to almost every 'comedy' sketch show on Radio 4 in total silence save for the occasional sigh. I no longer think "That's not funny" but "I wonder how that got on?" instead.
Watched 'Rev' all the way through just because Miles Jupp is in it.
Tried to find out the exact date that 'Radio 7' becomes 'Radio 4 Extra'.
On the plus side, I haven't started carrying around a Moleskine notebook to jot down ideas.
Yet.
