Quote: Charley @ April 9 2008, 7:23 PM BSTNah Paul. I cant draw shit. Seriously not even a brown splodge.
Some women draw stuff with their tits and call it art...
All I'm saying...
Why do you like comedy so much? Page 3
Quote: Charley @ April 9 2008, 7:21 PM BST
I think he looks like he needs 8 burgers. Looking a tad Aarronexic!
An anorexic Harry Potter.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Bulemia.
Quote: Seefacts @ April 9 2008, 7:25 PM BSTAhh, interesting.
I'm the least serious person ever. Well, the only thing I'm serious about (irony fans) is comedy. I take nothing seriously and my first thought is 'what gag can I come out with here'.
Spooky, me too. I also did the Chandler thing back in the day. *cringe*
Quote: Seefacts @ April 9 2008, 7:26 PM BSTAn anorexic Harry Potter.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Bulemia.
Quote: Paul W @ April 9 2008, 7:26 PM BSTSome women draw stuff with their tits and call it art...
All I'm saying...
Now I have a blue Areola!!! 
Quote: Paul W @ April 9 2008, 7:21 PM BSTI'm 19, and too enjoyed watching red dwarf, jesus did all BBC2 do during the 90's was repeat Red Dwarf?
And as Lee and others I used to draw cartoons and little comic strips. So I'm guessing all writers do the same thing then and then come to this forum
Well BBC2 showed every episode of Dwarf in the run up to the premiere of series VI. So they showed about 30 episodes, one a week, during 1993. That's a lot of Dwarf.
Quote: Leevil @ April 9 2008, 7:26 PM BSTSpooky, me too. I also did the Chandler thing back in the day. *cringe*
Leevil, are you me? We appear to be the same person.
I know though, could it BE more embarrassing. I only did it to make up for the fact I had a stupid haircut. Being funny was all I had.
Quote: Seefacts @ April 9 2008, 7:25 PM BSTAhh, interesting.
I'm the least serious person ever. Well, the only thing I'm serious about (irony fans) is comedy. I take nothing seriously and my first thought is 'what gag can I come out with here'.
I think comedy has leant to that attitude and carried it on. Maybe that's why I'm not a big drama or film fan. I'm too serious.
I'm going to live my life like Tom Hanks in 'Big'.
I don't get being overly serious about comedy. Not talking in a hard work get laughs way but the whole intensity over it for some peeps. Surely the best humour is the humour that flows freely from a creative and a playful mind. Humour shouldn't be forced, it should be enjoyed! That's just my method anyway! I can also cross my toes. Just threw that in free of charge.
Quote: RubyMae - Glamourous Snowdrop at large. @ April 9 2008, 7:30 PM BSTSurely the best humour is the humour that flows freely from a creative and a playful mind.
Depends on your sense of humour.
I guess I am talking from the viewpoint of someone who enjoys bright colours and flashing things.
I always liked comedy from childhood but what kicked me off writing was when I acted in a play with just me and another actor. It was advertised as comedy. It was quite funny but in working in it, I decided that I could write better comedy, so when I got back up't north, I wrote two comedy plays. Both were subsequently put on at a London fringe theatre.
I usually wake up laughing but wonder is that the first sign of madness.
Quote: Seefacts @ April 9 2008, 7:29 PM BSTLeevil, are you me? We appear to be the same person.
If one of us is the other, you are definitely ME. Yeah work that out 
Quote: Seefacts @ April 9 2008, 7:29 PM BSTI know though, could it BE more embarrassing. I only did it to make up for the fact I had a stupid haircut. Being funny was all I had.
I used to make the joke before anyone else could, thus taking away the mean bullies power. But really, I just liked making stupid in-your-endos and puns, I thought it WAS big 'n clever and still do. 
Quote: RubyMae - Glamourous Snowdrop at large. @ April 9 2008, 7:35 PM BSTI guess I am talking from the viewpoint of someone who enjoys bright colours and flashing things.
As do I.
I'm not talking police lights.
Neither am I. So why bring it up? Something going on in your subconscious, methinks.
The Cosby Show was the first sitcom I ever watched and loved. I remember when the show ended and being rather upset the show was over (I was probably in grade 1 or 2).
Like Leevil I watched LOTS of cartoons. My favorites were the Terrible Thunder lizards (played on Eek the Cat), Animaniacs, The Tick and I became slightly obsessed with watching as many Looney Tunes episodes as I could.
I also loved watching silent comedies and black and white comedies with my grandfather. I had no choice at first to watch them but I eventually started finding them on my own. My grandfather's favorite were Buster Keaton and Laurel and Hardy. My favorites became Marx Brothers and Abbott and Costello. I still have a ridiculous amount of Abbott and Costello video and audio tapes lying around that my mom would find for me. He used to always say the same thing when he watched them "we couldn't afford to see these in Holland, but now we can watch as many as we want for free!"
My dad liked to watch British sitcoms when I was a kid, but I honestly didn't really understand most of them (sorry but British accents to a North American child can be extremely confusing). It wasn't until I discovered Monty Python on my own that I watched the episodes over and over until I could understand what they were saying. It was great though because I remember watching Holy Grail for the 5th time in a few days and still finding jokes that I had missed simply because I couldn't understand what they were saying. It was like learning a different language
I also collected every cartoon section from the Sunday newspapers. It was to the point that I remember my mom telling me I was only allowed to pick 3 to collect each week.
Wow that was rather cathartic. Good post idea Leevil!
EDITED: Forgot Spaceballs and basically anything by Mel Brooks really and I could at one point in my nerdy life recite Simpson’s as if it was the bible.
I became fixated with making people laugh when I was about ten. I discovered I could do good impressions of teachers and adored the feeling of making other kids cry with laughter. Then I was always writing little sketches and stuff and then recording them on my dad's old reel-to-reel tape recorder. I used to get all my electronic toys like Space Invaders and Merlin, and press the buttons for sound effects to my sketches.
Then I got a bit older and discovered Kenny Everett, who I thought was the funniest person on the planet. And then the usual suspcts - Blackadder, The Young Ones, Fry and Laurie - all leading me down the path to that awful realisation that, quite literally, all I wanted to do was write comedy. Which is difficult, coming from a staunchly working class family in darkest Middlesbrough where if you've not got muck on your hands and footie in your blood, you're a raging pooftah.