The first of mine and my occasional comedy partners sketches for the charity Cardiac Risk in the Young. In this instalment we converse on James's impending Olympic training and the medical checks that go with it.
Charity Sketch No.1
I'm on a laptop. I found it difficult to hear. For people like me it needs to be louder (I have volume turned up to max and it's still quiet) as well as clearer.
Quote: Yacob Wingnut @ November 30 2010, 9:48 PM GMTI'm on a laptop. I found it difficult to hear. For people like me it needs to be louder (I have volume turned up to max and it's still quiet) as well as clearer.
Sorry about that. It's not that quiet although it's not loud either.
I enjoyed it.
Particularly the bit when you turned into Gervais/Brent, 'they're-a-bloody-good-charity ...'
Although I'm not sure that was intentional.
Quote: don rushmore @ November 30 2010, 10:00 PM GMTI enjoyed it.
Particularly the bit when you turned into Gervais/Brent, 'they're-a-bloody-good-charity ...'
Although I'm not sure that was intentional.
Thank you.
It was intentional. This was recorded three years ago when I was playing a David Brent esc character so I was also talking like that.
Quote: James Cotter @ November 30 2010, 10:04 PM GMTThis was recorded three years ago ...
At your age (20?), I don't think you should still be plugging stuff you did three years ago. It's unhealthy. You should have moved on and be ashamed of your juvenilia! 
Quote: JohnnyD @ December 1 2010, 11:51 AM GMTAt your age (20?), I don't think you should still be plugging stuff you did three years ago. It's unhealthy. You should have moved on and be ashamed of your juvenilia!
Funny how sometimes your early stuff can still be your best though. I like to think I've come a long way from when I started seriously writing comedy five years ago but a recent cull of my YouTube videos showed that a couple of those very early attempts held up pretty well. Some arguably better than my more seasoned material. That said, I wouldn't go out of my way to plug them when there's so much else I haven't got around to doing yet.
Quote: JohnnyD @ December 1 2010, 11:51 AM GMTAt your age (20?), I don't think you should still be plugging stuff you did three years ago. It's unhealthy. You should have moved on and be ashamed of your juvenilia!
Yes I'm 20. I'm only plugging it as I'm going to be plugging the rest of the sketches with the most recent having been record this year.
Strange how some critique your age instead of your material.
It,s the Simon Cowell syndrome, you know, unable to think of something constuctive, so say something destructive.
Carry on regardless James.You are 20, in whats known as your
Rat up a Drainpipe Years.
I didn't know James was only 20 but I did know he's a prolific creator of comedy.
He deserves a medal for the amount of comedy material he's produced at such a young age.
And it's pretty good stuff too, all things considered.
Quote: Jerf Roberwitz @ December 2 2010, 8:54 AM GMTStrange how some critique your age instead of your material.
It's the Simon Cowell syndrome, you know, unable to think of something constuctive, so say something destructive.
Carry on regardless James.You are 20, in whats known as your
Rat up a Drainpipe Years.
Thank you. Nice quote from Extras too.
Blimey, Quote from Extras? I didn't know somebody had laid claim to that saying. I first heard the phrase rat up a drain pipe as an apprentice bricklayer 55yrs ago.
Blimey, Quote from Extras? I didn't know somebody had laid claim to that saying. I first heard the phrase rat up a drain pipe as an apprentice bricklayer 55yrs ago.
Quote: Jerf Roberwitz @ December 2 2010, 11:21 AM GMTBlimey, Quote from Extras? I didn't know somebody had laid claim to that saying. I first heard the phrase rat up a drain pipe as an apprentice bricklayer 55yrs ago.
I thought your were cleverly linking back to the Gervais comparison made earlier. It's from the episode with Samuel L Jackson.
Quote: Veronica Vestibule @ December 2 2010, 9:11 AM GMTI didn't know James was only 20 but I did know he's a prolific creator of comedy.
He deserves a medal for the amount of comedy material he's produced at such a young age.
And it's pretty good stuff too, all things considered.
Thank you very much for the comment. <3 Comments like that.