If two or more people send in the same one-liner that gets used, how do they decide who to pay? Is it the first one sent?
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Quote: AJGO @ September 11 2011, 12:02 AM BSTIf two or more people send in the same one-liner that gets used, how do they decide who to pay? Is it the first one sent?
Yes.
Thanks for the link. Most helpful. I think I'm done now for the week. Just have to see how it goes. I'm not expecting anything from this week, as I only wrote my first gag less than six months ago (some would argue I've still to write it..). I'll give it another go next week, now that I've a better idea of the format and stuff. Failing that, I'll take up golf.
[quote name="Park Bench" post="807154" date="September 11 2011, 10:14 ]I'm not expecting anything from this week, as I only wrote my first gag less than six months ago [/quote] That's not an issue, you can write and that's all that matters. Good luck!
ta.
Consumed with self loathing for yesterday's triumph of online poker over comedy writing, I was in Nero at nine o'clock this morning (he's a lovely bloke). Did 90 mins til a Mega Modern Family moved on to the table next to me and I fled. Two sketches bubbling now. Much easier to sit and work on the one liners than the sketches, is it not so...?
Trevor
PS why have I chosen The Ultimate Workout Mix to listen to on Spotify? It's bloody awful.
Quote: AJGO @ September 11 2011, 12:02 AM BSTIf two or more people send in the same one-liner that gets used, how do they decide who to pay? Is it the first one sent?
Quote: Trabs @ September 11 2011, 9:22 AM BSTYes.
Hmm. Might start making up items about stories in the hope that they happen
Quote: AJGO @ September 11 2011, 12:02 AM BSTIf two or more people send in the same one-liner that gets used, how do they decide who to pay? Is it the first one sent?
Kind of. But the first pass through the material is done by a lot of different people before it gets finessed by the script editor and producer. So it's sort of the first one noticed, really.
As a rule of thumb, if the same joke gets made by two or more people, it hopefully gets junked altogether. Not simply for legal reasons - just that if the same joke keeps coming up, it's probably a reflexive/naff gag on a subject, and there's (hopefully!) funnier stuff out there.
Quote: Mr Writer Like In The Song @ September 11 2011, 1:15 PM BSTKind of. But the first pass through the material is done by a lot of different people before it gets finessed by the script editor and producer. So it's sort of the first one noticed, really.
As a rule of thumb, if the same joke gets made by two or more people, it hopefully gets junked altogether. Not simply for legal reasons - just that if the same joke keeps coming up, it's probably a reflexive/naff gag on a subject, and there's (hopefully!) funnier stuff out there.
But there may well be another genius writer that ponders thoughtfully and hilariously on the Pope's Catholicism.
Thanks for the info
Quote: Burnt Out Hack @ September 10 2011, 6:29 PM BSTPut aside all of Saturday for Newsjack.
Number of hours spent writing = 0
Number of hour on Poker Stars = 6 and counting.
Can relate to that, except I usually end up browsing on here.
I may be completely wrong but just from memory I seem to recall NJ sketches tend to mostly take the format of:
A) - An interview with some expert.
B) - Some promotional advert for something.
So it stays within a news show format. Do they have a lot of sketches that are standalone sketches set in a completely different location. e.g. one of my sketches is set during an operation in an operating theatre. The other is a board room meeting.
Just wondering whether if they would stand a better chance if I rewrote them to fit A or B.
i read an interview with someone saying it didn't matter, that those formats were just starting points, so I wouldn't worry if they wouldn't slot into those, I would stick to what you're doing.
going back to what happens if you send in similar one liners two series ago I sent in a correction and they used something very similar - same premise and same punchline. I emailed them to ask if this was mine and they said they got a few similar lines and choose the one which was written/worded best. So I think if they get two one liners they choose the one which sounds best.
Thanks blahblah
Quote: Burnt Out Hack @ September 10 2011, 6:29 PM BSTAn episode is here. Just needed a bit of creative searching:
Batman mun! That absolutely killed me when it was on. Loved it.