British Comedy Guide

A word on discipline

Whack-O!. Professor James Edwards (Headmaster) (Jimmy Edwards). Copyright: BBC

Discipline.

It's a difficult word, that brings to mind overzealous headmasters, like Professor James Edwards in Whack-O!, or pettifogging managers like Gordon Brittas in The Brittas Empire, or deluded military buffoons, like Jimmy Anderson in The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin.

But, the truth is, if you are to get anywhere as a comedy creator, you are going to need, at least a degree of, discipline.

Life, as they say, comes at you fast.

All writers and comedy creators have experienced periods when they haven't go much done.

The urge to procrastinate, unfortunately, is something [i]we all need to...

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Published: Tuesday 8th October 2024

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