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    Have you ever thought of (or even tried) writing comedy sketches?
    Is it altogether a different thing, do you think? A good market to get into?

  • #2
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    Hey Yeehi - that is interesting - I just worked with a BBC writer who got his start doing just that and worked on Not the Nine O'Clock News and shows like that. I'm trying to get him to do a guest blog for the Rouge Wave that speaks to this question - maybe I'll use your question as a reason to prod him!

    Julie Gray



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    • #3
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      I've written probably two hundred five-minute comedy bits for puppets (for an amateur group I'm with), and one comic half-hour radio play.

      It's a hoot, especially when writing for kids. They don't know the jokes that were old in the age of vaudeville.

      Dr. Scones: ...and they would grind them with a mortar and pestle.

      Captain: Mortar? What's a mortar?

      Dr. Scones: Why, nothing! What's a mortar with you?

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      • #4
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        Oh! That would be a very good blog, La Femme Joyeuse. Please ask your friend
        how many funny people it takes to screw in a lightbulb.

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        • #5
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          I was just thinking about this. The Upright Citizens Brigade in NY runs a sketch writing class 4 times a year. I would maybe consider signing up for it, except I'm probably too old and would seem like the weird trying-too-hard-to-fit-in-guy.

          I want to stress that the whole point of going would not be to learn how to write funny (you either can or you cant) but for the networking. Comedians tend to stick together and comedy is such a collaborative thing. The Daily Show and Colbert Report (among others) actively recruit from UCB.

          Having said that, I write tons of sketches and would love to maybe film some and throw them up on You Tube.

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          • #6
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            Originally posted by yeehi View Post
            Oh! That would be a very good blog, La Femme Joyeuse. Please ask your friend
            how many funny people it takes to screw in a lightbulb.
            It takes a whole lot of funny people to screw a light bulb..

            First one, the clever dick tells everybody that there is no such thing as a light bulb because they are really a lamp.. Bulbs grow in the garden in horse muck..

            The second would hold the step ladder..

            Third would foot the step ladder (Health and Safety here)

            Forth would point out that the lamp is in fact a bayonet cap fitting and can't be screwed so in effect they're all screwed themselves.

            Ffith would probably make a joke out of that..

            Sixth would be a nosy onlooker.

            Seventh would be the seventh son of a seventh son, who does nothing whatsoever because he is a Gypsy, he's a lazy son of a beeech who prattles on about how he is God's gift, he has a large whatsit in his pants and he is the light of the world..

            Eight would say "you are reading the finest prepared post embedded within the highest possible grained electronic web HTML page guaranteed to fit comfortably in a browser of your choice and on your computer monitor. There is little or no offensive material apart from four cvnts, a clitoris and a foreskin and as you are past them now you are well clear.."

            Nine would say "Oh, and don't forget the bulb..."

            Ten............................. ahh, bollocks! Schmollocks!!
            Last edited by Kevan; 11-19-2007, 09:37 AM. Reason: monkey's droppings!

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            • #7
              Re: A funny idea

              There was an old woman from Ealing
              Who had a peculiar feeling
              She lay on her back
              Opened her crack
              and bla bla all over the ceiling..

              There was an old man from Leeds
              Who swallowed a packet of seeds
              In less than an hour
              His dick was a flower
              And his ass a bundle of weeds.. Bum, Bum!!

              Mary had a little lamb
              She also had a bear
              You often saw her little lamb
              But never say her bare...

              Mary had a little lamb
              She couldn't stop it bleating
              She took it down the garden path
              And kicked it's fvckin teeth in!

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              • #8
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                Originally posted by cool running
                Not the Nine O Clock News, inform him that he's a Living God La Femme J !

                That particular show has the greatest of reputations over here. It was ground-breaking stuff. Everyone has their favourite sketch, I like, inter alia, Gerald, the talking Baboon/Ape with Society manners and a sketch where someone is trying to buy a new sound system, patronising counter staff etc, plays on technical terminology, the names of these sketches eludes me ...
                Here's you go cool..

                Not the Nine O'clock News - Gerald the Gorilla on YouTube!
                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MpbMm0433I

                Very funny sketch this.. MY other favorite is Pamela Anderson returning home from shopping, she enters the house, closes the front door and begins to climb the stairs. The husband (Mel Smith) notices her left breast is sticking out of her blouse and says, "Jesus, where're you been?" and he points to her exposed wobbling left tit.. She looks down to her semi-naked exposed chest and says "Oh, Christ, I've left the baby on the bus!" - Priceless!!!

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                • #9
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                  Originally posted by yeehi View Post
                  Oh! That would be a very good blog, La Femme Joyeuse. Please ask your friend
                  how many funny people it takes to screw in a lightbulb.
                  Only two, and they have to be very small.

                  That's all that'll fit.

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                  • #10
                    Re: A funny idea

                    Originally posted by Kevan View Post
                    Mary had a little lamb
                    She couldn't stop it bleating
                    She took it down the garden path
                    And kicked it's fvckin teeth in!
                    Mary had a little lamb
                    She gave it castor oil
                    And every time it jumped the fence,
                    It fertilized the soil.

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                    • #11
                      Re: A funny idea

                      Originally posted by AaronB View Post
                      Mary had a little lamb
                      She gave it castor oil
                      And every time it jumped the fence,
                      It fertilized the soil.
                      Mary had a little lamb
                      She gave it castor oil
                      And every time it cocked it's leg
                      It fertilized the soil.

                      Mary had a little lamb
                      She was so very hanus
                      She shoved a ball in it's mouth
                      And out it popped from it's anus

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                      • #12
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                        For the love of dog, don't give up your day jobs!

                        Light bulb jokes: arguably Mankind's greatest achievement, and the only thing for which he will be remembered in eons to come.

                        How many psychiatrists does it take...? None, the bulb must want to change itself.

                        How many screenwriters does it take...? Only one, but he stands still and expects the world to revolve around him.

                        -Derek

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                        • #13
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                          Must add my two cents...

                          Mary had a little lamb.
                          Its fleece was black as charcoal.
                          Every time it jumped the fence,
                          You could see its little a$$hole.

                          Little Miss Muffet sat on her tuffet
                          Eating her curds and whey.
                          Along came a spider which sat down beside her.
                          And she said, "F*ck off hairy legs. I was here first."

                          Little Jack Horner sat in the corner
                          Eating his christmas pie.
                          He stuck in his thumb, pulled out a plumb
                          And said, "Christ! I coulda choked on that!"

                          Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
                          Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
                          All the king's horses and all the king's men said,
                          "F*ck him. He's only an egg."

                          Jack and Jill went up the hill
                          To fetch a pail of water.
                          Jack fell down and broke his crown
                          And Jill collected on the insurance and moved to Monte Carlo where she blew the lot at the casino before turning to prostituting herself in the streets and finally met a plastic surgeon from Los Angeles, had a boob job, married the jerk and lived happily ever after.

                          And....

                          How many electricians does it take to change a lightbulb?

                          Fifteen.

                          What? You got a problem with that? Take it up with the union.
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                          • #14
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                            Whilst this thread is off the rails, I wonder if anybody could link me to the moment in the feature film of Dad's Army where they march into the church singing "All things bright and beautiful"?

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                            • #15
                              Re: A funny idea

                              If anyone has an idea of what a Saturday Night Live script looks like (or can point me to one) I'd be your friend forever.

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