Sitcom Idea!

My idea is an idea for a new Sitcom called "The Chris and Dale show" (I'll be the first to admit it's not the greatest of names but what does the name matter if the show is good right?) The sitcom would be based around the lives of two coach drivers in their twenties called Chris and Dale who having been best friends for years work as driving partners for a coach firm called Starmella. The show would feature several events in which the pair get themselves in to trouble and often risk losing their jobs as a result. As well as Chris and Dale the comedy would also star other recurring characters such as, Robert-Chris and Dale's boss who constantly finds himself having to deal with the problems they create, Leah-The boring health and safety officer who isn't often impressed by Chris and Dale's lack of organization and disregard for the rules while driving the coaches and Garry a friend of Chris and Dale's who often finds himself acting as their "Partner in crime" and reluctantly getting involved in their schemes.

Chris Evans and Dale Winton as the coach drivers perhaps.

I suspect this thread is in the wrong place...

Moderators!?

I'm not really sure where the best place for this thread is, so I've moved it to Critique for now, as I assume Skyler is looking for some kind of comment on the idea.

Ideas are fine - we all have great ideas all the time. The thing is turning them into workable scripts (that doesn't have to mean killingly funny to begin with - if you get a funny scenario and a few funny lines, and solid structure, you can always add and change lines to make it funnier, but you must have structure and you must have potential to find it funny before anything else). An exercise to try is to write a sketch about your set up - sketches have to be fast, full of gags and get to the point very quickly. If you can write a great sketch about these characters/this scenario - you can probably develop it.

This 'pitch' tells me nothing at this stage about you as a writer, or the potential of the funnies in this idea. Normally, a pitch would reflect the potential of both - but I suspect at your stage a script is more necessary than a pitch.

The immediate thing I thought was an updated 'On The Buses' - stay with me here - nearly all ideas for comedy you can think of (especially sitcom) are versions of previous sitcoms, made relevant. Saying 'On The Buses' doesn't mean the same "comedy", but it might mean a similar dynamic, but for a much more "modern" audience. That hasn't been done for a while, so there's a niche.

Good luck - no, that's no help: If you believe in it; work hard and make everyone else believe in it. Then post it so we can enjoy it too.