Nasty from the pasty

Today I decided to revisit the very first thing I ever wrote (in script format that is). Naturally, it was horrifyingly bad. Still though, buried beneath the dreadful expositional dialogue and painfully detailed description, there was the nugget of something good. So I decided, as an experiment, to see if there was any way I could rework it into something I'd be proud of today. I'm not sure I succeeded, but it was a really valuable exercise.

So, anyone else care to pick up the gauntlet? Take the first thing you wrote and buff it into something decent? It's feel good fun to see how far you've come, trust me.

Was that the hedge sketch? in which case, kudos nicely done.

I'm afraid like a dog, I pretty much constantly recycle my own waste.

It was the hedge sketch. Believe me, the original was just horrible. I'd post it if only it weren't so long and poorly formatted.

Bizarrely the sitcom I'm currently polishing ting, was actually one of the first thing I wrote for the BBC Talent competiion when it exisited, did rather well as I recall as well.

I recently rewrote one of the first sketches I ever wrote and that went well. Although it was quite good already!

The first thing I ever posted on BSG, though, was awful and it was:

https://www.comedy.co.uk/forums/thread/1898

God I was a silly goose back then.

The first and second thing what I wrote got performed by NR. So in your face world. However it went shit pan after that. Ho hum.

My first comedy was a long sketch or short film called "The Frog Man". I tried redoing it ages ago but didn't get very far, might pick it up again soon.

The Frog Man

I remembered last night that the very first sketch I wrote was in 1992 when I was 9.

It involved a woman being in a nightclub; I think a man was trying to chat her up, but for some reason, a dog came running into the nightclub and headbutted the woman. The woman was in the process of putting some make up on. The headbutt from the dog made her swallow her make up.

I may still have it somewhere. It was in one of my school books which is probably in the loft.

I sincerely doubt I could rework it though.

The first thing I wrote was an entry for the Sci-Fi channel's short film contest. They were looking for high brow Sci-Fi drama and I gave them a low brow sex comedy involving scotch eggs and time travel.

Reading it now it had some salvageable funny lines but was a rubbish story.

Quote: Winterlight @ March 22, 2008, 6:55 PM

The first thing I ever posted on BSG, though, was awful and it was:

https://www.comedy.co.uk/forums/thread/1898

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God Almighty, you've come a long way in a short time.

Quote: Winterlight @ March 23, 2008, 9:59 AM

I remembered last night that the very first sketch I wrote was in 1992 when I was 9.

It involved a woman being in a nightclub; I think a man was trying to chat her up, but for some reason, a dog came running into the nightclub and headbutted the woman. The woman was in the process of putting some make up on. The headbutt from the dog made her swallow her make up.

I may still have it somewhere. It was in one of my school books which is probably in the loft.

I sincerely doubt I could rework it though.

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If you can rewrite that you can do anything.

Although i haven't re-written my first sitcom script, I have used many jokes/set ups from it in my latest one.