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!
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.
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.."
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 ...
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!!!
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.
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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