is Barnet (or the surrounding locale) so boring that you have to leave spoof messages 'Lee'? Piss off and annoy someone else.

Why not rip off 'Friends'? Lots of people like it. You just need six characters, the names aren't important, for the moment just call them funny, hippy, stupid, spoilt, fussy and wimpy. Make them all visit a local bar or similar location for most of each episode (a sarcastic bartender wouldn't go amiss there, and could comment on their relationships, offer bad advice etc.) Set it in "trendy London." The clothes/tits/muscles will in fact be more important than the comedy, which can just be "ganging up" and character-based in-jokes and shite like that. Shoe horn in some references to cult movies (for our purposes, something like "2001" counts as cult - why not have the male characters behave like chimpanzees in a surreal sequence with that famous dramatic music in the background? The audience will kill themselves trying to laugh in recognition.)

Find the SOTCAA sit-com thread - loads of great material there, and no mistake!

Oh, sorry - saw the title of this thread and thought Harry Enfield must have started posting to the forum.

(Oh, and the "Live sitcom" thread has gone. Completely. Not even in the "Old threads" section...)

A BBC-employed hacker nicked it.

Well, perhaps we should start a new one for this joker then?
"How do i write comedy?" well personally, i'd write it in a scruffy manner, using the english language, but not forming the 'd' properly, thus possibly causing confusion between that letter and an 'l'. Damn my illegible writing - it's not my fault, i blame the hand that writes it...

Have we done Clive Doig or Ed Bye yet?

Always liked Fred Quimby (Tom & Jerry) too

>Have we done Clive Doig or Ed Bye yet?
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>Always liked Fred Quimby (Tom & Jerry) too

Bah! Wrong thread.

you could write off to the John Shuttleworth Appreciation Society and order a pen onto which is enscribed "Hone your Lyrics with the John Shuttleworth Songwriting Pen".

Whilst this might not directly relate to sitcom writing, there is clearly a talent similarity between writing good songs and writing good sitcoms. I think the pen could help you.

Comedy writing is easy. A joke is a bit like a four dimensional topographical structure. A feedline represents one surface of meaning and the punchline is another meaning surface that intersects the first.

Neo-Darwinian algorithms are another way of looking at comedy. The environment provides us with a plentiful supply of phenotypical material (stuff) that can be exapted into extended phenotypical affects (japes, jests, funny things, etc) by a process of pseudo-random manipulation (comedy writing).

>Comedy writing is easy. A joke is a bit like a four dimensional topographical structure. A feedline represents one surface of meaning and the punchline is another meaning surface that intersects the first.
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>Neo-Darwinian algorithms are another way of looking at comedy. The environment provides us with a plentiful supply of phenotypical material (stuff) that can be exapted into extended phenotypical affects (japes, jests, funny things, etc) by a process of pseudo-random manipulation (comedy writing)....


...mynamesDanielCDennettGOODNIGHT!

<two people clap twice, then stop>
<embarrassed coughs>

So, er, anyway... Ewar, you were saying that you are "a beautiful lady with long golden hair and huge breasts"....

Dan is working in the Andy Kaufman school of comedy ie. be totally unfunny, die, then wait 15 years for a respectful biopic.

It sounds better if you say it in a funny voice.

Ah, the problems with message boards... you should've written "read in a funny voice".

I've been using the company mainframe to work on this problem (writing comedy) and have came up with the answer utilising chaos theory, algebra, and a rubber chicken.

It's a new PC program called *Comedic Random Alogrithmic Processor*








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>I've been using the company mainframe to work on this problem (writing comedy) and have came up with the answer utilising chaos theory, algebra, and a rubber chicken.
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>It's a new PC program called *Comedic Random Alogrithmic Processor*
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hey - it worked for vic reeves

Don't forget that if the show and the characters turn out to be utterly boring and completely unfunny, just make one a drag artiste and/or gay and give the rest a weird hairdo - as seen in The Fitz and Gimme Gimme Gimme.

Do you have a scene with a man falling through something breakable, possibly glass?

(Just thought I'd mentioned that we all hate Del Boy and his bloody breaking of things for the 6 millionth time.)

>Do you have a scene with a man falling through something breakable, possibly glass?
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>(Just thought I'd mentioned that we all hate Del Boy and his bloody breaking of things for the 6 millionth time.)


Del Boy falls through a glass coffee table with the shards inflicting serious wounds.