I feel left out, being a woman. We can get sex without having to be funny.
What made you want to do comedy? Page 2
Quote: Nat Wicks @ September 6 2010, 3:14 PM BSTI feel left out, being a woman. We can get sex without having to be funny.
The ripest apple is at the top of the tree.
Being a obsessive show off made me want to do comedy. I would like to repeat what I saw or heard and replicate it so people would laugh.
Quote: James Cotter @ September 6 2010, 3:56 PM BSTBeing a obsessive show off made me want to do comedy. I would like to repeat what I saw or heard and replicate it so people would laugh.
Thus ended your career in MI6?
Quote: Nat Wicks @ September 6 2010, 3:14 PM BSTI feel left out, being a woman. We can get sex without having to be funny.
Come for the sex, stay for the laughs?
Centre forward for Liverpool
Rock Star
Serious drama writer
Assistant admin supervisor
Comedy writer
Quote: sootyj @ September 6 2010, 3:58 PM BSTThus ended your career in MI6?
I thought I was in MI6 for a long time. I used to be good at remembering whole scenes from episodes of TV programmes and be able to do the voices but I did it as very being serious it was only when the laughter just became a regular thing and lots of people said why not do comedy I did. I still treat it very seriously I don't like people laughing when they shouldn't do.
Quote: sootyj @ September 6 2010, 3:58 PM BSTCome for the sex, stay for the laughs?
Can't f**king get rid of them. I'm just two damn lovable.
Since I was a kid I've always liked to make people laugh and I was recording audio sketches and daft characters before I was ten. Then I seriously got into writing and was always scribbling away in my bedroom when I should've been out playing football. Through my teens and twenties comedy (and sci-fi) was pretty much all I watched. And then I thought to myself "I think I can make a proper living out of doing TV comedy!"
I was wrong of course. 
Well not yet anyway. Maybe soon. We all need hope.
Quote: David Bussell @ September 6 2010, 3:06 PM BSTLet's unpack the question further then, shall we? Who here has got laid because of their comedy?
Well, indirectly I suppose. I used to be an entertainments Bluecoat at Pontins. Great times. It was a like a porno version of Hi-De-Hi.
Quote: Lee Henman @ September 6 2010, 4:28 PM BSTSince I was a kid I've always liked to make people laugh and I was recording audio sketches and daft characters before I was ten. Then I seriously got into writing and was always scribbling away in my bedroom when I should've been out playing football. Through my teens and twenties comedy (and sci-fi) was pretty much all I watched. And then I thought to myself "I think I can make a proper living out of doing TV comedy!"
I was wrong of course.
Well not yet anyway. Maybe soon. We all need hope.
Well, indirectly I suppose. I used to be an entertainments Bluecoat at Pontins. Great times. It was a like a porno version of Hi-De-Hi.
Living the dream, man. Just living the dream.
Quote: Marooned @ September 6 2010, 4:44 PM BSTLiving the dream, man. Just living the dream.
Hey, forget Amsterdam. Forget Bangkok. Morecambe's where all the really hot action's at 
I acted in quite a few comedies in theatre and thought I could write better stuff, and I do
Quote: Nat Wicks @ September 6 2010, 3:14 PM BSTI feel left out, being a woman. We can get sex without having to be funny.
Can't say that being funny got me any sex. Depends on what sort of funny you mean, really, Nat.
Quote: Lee Henman @ September 6 2010, 5:09 PM BSTHey, forget Amsterdam. Forget Bangkok. Morecambe's where all the really hot action's at
I'm more of a Bognor man myself.
Making people laugh gives my pitiful self an ego boost.
I seem to recall that I had a deluded idea that comedy was an easier sell than the serious stuff.