New skool rulez

TEACHER ADDRESSING PUPILS

TEACHER

After todays high court ruling, you can all wear clothes appropriate to your cultures.

PUPIL1

Hooray my parents are Chavs I can wear a baseball cap, and nasty Argos jewelery I stole off some first years.

PUPIL2

Hooray my parents are members of the Church of Latter Day Saints, I can wear my "Daddy's number one shag T shirt"

PUPIL3

And my parents are in Al Quaeda, I can wear my vest.

REVEALS SUICIDE VEST.

TEACHER

Oh well at least I won't have to teach citizenship now.

PUPIL3 BLOWS HIMSELF UP

Oh I never post for the sheer hell of it. But I think there's a significant difference between the high quality big idea skits, which incidentally in my view garner little more than the respect of one's peers, and writing to demand for comercial ventures.

Ultimately the last 6 skits I sold, were all a little obvious and crude. Where as the ones I really liked went no where.

Alot of satire on TV (thinking of that God awful ITV CGI show), is that obvious, and that crude (Sarkozy as a horny little Frenchman, Old Mugabe the farmer....planting crisps!)

I aim to work more on the big idea skits. But to be honest they're a vanity project, to be blunt they don't sell.

I amy be coming off as a little jaded. But the satire writing is something of a pocket money hobby, and there's only so often I can punt out the clever stuff that goes precisely no where.

The thing is, sooty is allowed to post as much as he wants. Anyone is.

It may do him a little disservice on the boards, but the wider world won't be bothered.

However, I'm not sure if:

"I aim to work more on the big idea skits. But to be honest they're a vanity project, to be blunt they don't sell."

is a good attitude to have. Cleverer things obviously do sell, but you need to get to a position where you can sell them. It wouldn't hurt to work on stronger ideas though. You never know when an opportunity is going to present itself.

To be in honest I don't truly believe in either, I just like writing.

I don't really write for positive feedback, albeit that's always nice.

I'm happier gleaning the useful advice from the critique.

In this case it may be that certain shows have a lowish standard, sticking to which may damage ones overall writing. Which maybe happening with my writing, oh well....