Teddy, mate, your energies would really really be better expended on writing. 
However, you've just given me an idea for a sketch in which minor celebrities get their bathwater supply automatically changed to baked beans every time there's a telethon. 
Good luck with that one Gappy.
Steve I think we had best stop posting on the issue as you're half sorry and I'm fully incensed.
Plus I want to get back to writing unrealistic scenarios with fairly predictable punchlines as I seem adept at them at the moment.
This is an intriguing sketch; it's very well written. The sketch has 3 distinct beats, it sets the story up maintains it and then twists the punchline. The unusual character of the cowboy, gas engineer is neatly constructed he has just enough dialogue to firmly define his character and not anymore.
So far so grade A.
Then bang the punchline. And straight to grade E, he has an eyepatch so the woman thought he was part of children in need. Terribly weak and pulls the whole premise down with it.
So my puzzle is two fold. Why would you write it. You can clearly write and write well, professionally. And yet again and again you write the same thing. And too state the bleeding obvious it's a style that's familiar too so many fellow posters over the years. Like the same individual soul inhabiting the body of the forum.
Why do you do it, whats the enjoyment. Are you a talented writer, unfairly over looked, then you're the not only one why not share with us.
The second is why do so many writers praise you so effusively, when, well what you're doing is kinda obvious and the quality of your writings deliberately sub standard.
Why do they do it.
ANyway so there you go. And please save the dime store dramatics for some one who doesn't know you so well.
I'm typing this because Steve's an exceptional writer and an exceptionally nice guy and doesn't deserve what ever issues you're so clearly working through.
Sooty you need to give your head a shake you really do
One
The eye patch is due to him playing 'Rooster Cogburn' in True Grit, a film that provided him with his only Oscar.
Two
As such it is seen as being the Iconic image of him and is in no way related to the money grubbing f**king antics of some one eyed bear from from f**king Yorkshire.
Three
I don't like you and you don't like me
FOUR
I'm not really interested in the assessment of a man who when faced with a comedic hurdle opts to write like a naughty boy trying to shock an aged aunt.
You're stuff is far too infantile for my tastes as are Zombies and Dr Who, its spotty guy in a bedroom stuff.
But that said you post your own stuff and you speak your own mind so lets just stick to hating each others guts.
I couldn't be arsed with this thread anymore as it is far too dramatic and laced with hatred, it is in fact rapidly becoming an evil thread and I want no more of it!
As I said before and I'll say it again teddy I love you, open your needy heart to me
I won't comment again
I wouldnt want to hurt a soul as beautiful as yours
Teddy, for what it's worth I didn't particularly think the sketch was funny. I am a chancer and have no real clue, or if I am honest the desire to know, how to deconstruct a joke to see why it is or isn't funny. I go by my natural chuckle muscle.
You are naturally very prolific. The only other poster on here I can think of for banging out sketches so quickly is Sootyj. Some of his are good and some of his are bad, and I have told him so. I have also told you in the past that I sometimes think your scattergun approach, with so many sketches sometimes brings down the quality. I am envious of the talet you both share as I have to be in a particular frame of mind to write. Pressure at work has prevented me submitting anything to Newsjack for two whole series for example.
I have previously praised your sketches and told you when I didn't like them. I am not much use as a sounding board as previously stated, I am a chancer.
Steve and Sootyj are not chancers. They know what they are doing. You have been unfair to both them and Ben. In particular your accusations about Steve are disappointing. I have never met him, or anyone else from the BCG as it happens, but I have always found him to be one of the most honest, helpful posters on here.
You can't seriously throw up David Smith as a legitimate example of 'the clique' hounding an innocent member. He was a character dreamed up by someone who has a bit of talet for his/their own amusement, both annoying and somewhat amusing for the rest of us at times.
As my kids used to say to me, 'take a chill pill dad'.
Will I'm not really ready to go over all this again,lets all agree to disagree as I have my views and you have yours. To be honest I am happy to let lying dogs sleep and I'm sure they feel the same.
Quote: Teddy Paddalack @ 16th November 2013, 6:57 PM GMTTo be honest I am happy to let lying dogs sleep
I really don't think you are.
After you cyberstalked my posts when I had the temerity to point out that your lack of punctuation spoiled the joke, I never critiqued your work ( except the novel - I pitied you because nobody else commented). In fact your reaction put me off making comments about anybody's work.
I'll say this ... I'm involved in amdram. I write (prolifically and get paid sometimes), act and direct. When I direct, I always exhort the cast to respect their audience (learn lines, do their best acting, etc). What I mainly dislike about your posts is that you show no respect for your audience - any old mis-spelled, badly punctuated crap will do. You are, in fact, capable of dishing up the goodies as some of your irate posts here have shown. But you don't bother your arse and we get all this 'something I dashed off because it pleases me' stuff . If you only write for yourself, why bother posting it?
I'd also suggest you pay attention to who praises your work. There are people who know what they're talking about and some who don't and just want to be 'nice'.
The problem for me is that the premise doesn't really work.
That's what I should have said.
Quote: Steve Sunshine @ 16th November 2013, 9:44 PM GMTThat's what I should have said.
Teddy, your writing is interesting, funny ... and well put together IMHO! I've just jumped back into writing myself but I'm currently on a catch-up here after a 6/7 year absence from what used to be the British Sitcom Guide (for me the music took over!). So I've been generally searching around for forum names I recognize from back then. Hardly any so far but I'll continue searching. In the meantime I've cherry picked through the critique area here, read a few of your contributions ... and I must say I like your style.
More later probably on that when I've got more back into it all.
Hello there, Losaavedra! I remember you from way back when...
Thanks for the feedback Lossa, it took guts venturing an opinion on this one given that it's not exactly everyone's cup of tea .
Some thought it deserved praise, but they were wrong.
Others thought that praising funny writing that they don't find funny is well out of order.
Others decided their was enough of them so they could throw the boot in, sadly their venom failed to match their wit, so they came across for what they are,a very Drab & Unfunny clique.
And believe it or not one poster couldn't even distinguish between 6ft 5 inch John Wayne in his one eyed Oscar winning Rooster Cogburn? (They thought it was a Teddy Bear, how cute)
So welcome back from where ever you have been? And try to stick around as this site need s people with taste and nerve.