Since reading Jimmy Carr's Naked Jape I've been honing a few jokes and stuff to try to sell to comedians. I've met a couple locally that I'm going to try to convince next week.
Not after trade secrets or owt - but anyone have any success down this route? I imagine that most comedians see it as a matter of pride to write for themselves, but there must be some lazy bastards out there?
That's a good book isn't it? Even if I am only half way through.
A lot of standups have people who write for them don't they?
There's nothing wrong with that. Unless you just mean stealing stuff which is another thread altogether...
A few people here have been on stand up courses - they seem a good place to start and you can try out your material on a crowd who want you to do well!
edit: I didn't read your thread properly there did I? Are you not interested in performing yourself? If not hopefully someone on here can tell you where you might be able to sell material.
JP
I sold a couple of gags to comedians, but unless you're selling to the top tere don't expect much and it's pretty labour intensive.
Ta JP
Cracking read I reckon - though it somehow paints racist jokes as the path to Earthly harmony. Still says Manning was a dick though, so that's nice.
Noooo - definitely not stealing stuff - and I write a lot of theatre so I have a fair sense of what works when read and what doesn't - just when reading up on the web, it seems the practice of buying jokes is on the way out
Aye Sooty,
I don't mind being labour intensive and I'm happy to only make pennies.
When at uni I used to try to compose Haiku for my course when out and about - but now I'm older I see that that makes me a tosser, so I reckon jokes are the way to go
That's a shame - if you're a good self publicist maybe you should get to the Edinburgh Festival - they'll be lots of comics there who might like the idea of a writing partner.
I'm thinking more the Lead Balloon style partnership than perhaps selling gags to a quick fire comic?
You could hunt around for greeting cards companies...
Cheers both - I appreciate the suggestions
With jokes remember anything that a comedian doesn't do for themselves for the personal touch is easy enough to pinch from the internet.
Google is tough competition.
I think alot of us 118 118 alumni found afterwards that selling gags is hard.
Cheers - my stuff tends to be a bit more risque than 118 would allow.
And, to be fair, may well be a big pile of cack - but I'll give it a go.
Cheers all
I find it's a good idea to write gags anyway it's good practise and useful to have them on store.
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