Quote: StephenM @ March 7 2013, 11:12 PM GMTI thought it was Old Mother Hubbard who lived in a shoe
Ha! Amateur!
Dan
Newsjack - Series 8 Page 27
The Jackapp about the pandas being played sexy chinese music and then a pleasent surpirse at the end with the correction for Roger Moore.
Quote: Winger @ March 7 2013, 11:16 PM GMTThe Jackapp about the pandas being played sexy chinese music and then a pleasent surpirse at the end with the correction for Roger Moore.
Nice. They both went down very well!
Quote: swerytd @ March 7 2013, 11:16 PM GMTHa! Amateur!
Dan
Ah yes, she went to the cupboard. What is the name of the shoe woman then?
Old
Thanks! Managed to get an intro, jackapps and a correction under my belt. Now I just need to work out why my sketches are so shoddy!
That genius one about the Queen was Seinfeld in comparison to the Hi De Hi effort I wrote about doctors taking Helen Mirrens stool sample by mistake...
A one-liner for me, about the general public being like a tax return.
That one did make me laugh.
Good stuff.
And the Panda one.
Well done to everyone that got on. Sounds like some really good stuff came from people on here.
I was wondering, what are people's general success rates? I've been submitting for three weeks and not even had a 'recorded but cut'.
Quote: TheJaw @ March 8 2013, 6:22 AM GMTWell done to everyone that got on. Sounds like some really good stuff came from people on here.
I was wondering, what are people's general success rates? I've been submitting for three weeks and not even had a 'recorded but cut'.
You've got to remember the volume of material they're recieving at NJ to put anyone's hit rate into perspective. 900 emails the first week dropping to nearer 700 more recently. Assuming more people send one-liners only rather than sketches as well, lets assume 400 one-liner emails. And there might be 7 or 8 in each. In the case of sketches they can only record about 15 in a show. Someone produced some more accurate stats on the similar NJ thread for series 6 or 7 which demonstrated you're doing fantastically well to get recorded up against all the competition.
Three weeks is a very short time in NJ submission terms. It can genuinely take a whole series before you really hit the tone and structure they're after. The seasoned NJ-ers here are managing to do that and hugely increasing the probability of getting recorded. If you can get into their 'maybe' pile week in, week out, eventually it'll pay off.
If you were to succeed with something in the recording this series (whether or not it makes the edit) that'd be a great achievement and a good target to aim for. Keep going, it does take time in most cases.
Quote: StephenM @ March 7 2013, 11:25 PM GMTAh yes, she went to the cupboard. What is the name of the shoe woman then?
'Old Woman Who'
Steve missed her pretentious double middle name.
Dan
Thanks for the response Alison.
I'm definitely starting to learn (with the help of the likes of yourself) that a big part of it is understanding the tone and structure, and already feel that I'm significantly better placed than in week one.
My question came from a direction of fragile ego, rather than impatience, so am glad to hear that you consider 3 weeks to be early days.
I seem to remember people saying that the BBC wouldn't cover on going cases so would people suggest ignoring the Huhne case this week?
They're both guilty so it's fair game - it's only sentencing that's left. Perhaps the bigger question is whether you have a fresh take on something that feels like "old news".
PS well done to the successful this week, commiserations everyone else.
Thanks badge. Yeah that's the next challenge
First one in for me last night (Easter Egg), the excitement only being tempered by the disappointment that it wasn't my "Windsor Castle Medical Centre" sketch which was the one that was in... I'm struggling to get my sketches aligned to the type of humour that prevails there!