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2007-07-03 20:37:00 DANNY: Is your wife* blond?JIM: I can't be sure.DANNY: How long have you been together, in need, in delightes, sharing the same breath, triumphing against the hordes of BMW conscious X3 drivers that play tennis?JIM: That's a long sentence.DANNY: So what colour is her hair?JIM: I don't know. She always wears a hat.DANNY: A hat?JIM: Well a motorcycle helmet. She was deeply affected by a storm in 1989.DANNY: I see.JIM: Of course it might not be her that turns up in bed every night.DANNY: I'm leaving this blog.JIM: See you tomorrowEND* BTW I'm not married More About: Hair
Are Those My Feet?
2007-07-02 22:03:00 Yes they are and they are very naughty. I've caught them several times taking me outside for a cigarette. God bless the great British sense of smoking outside.People say to me "Jim you're bald."But when I explain what happened to my hair they laugh on the other side of their faces (tried that once and tickled my own ear). And I say:"Well I gave my hair to charity in 1997 and it's currently roofing a barn in Malawi."*If you gave away a part of your body what would it be?*I get a postcard now and then. More About: Feet
Here we go again
2007-07-01 19:02:00 Current Mode'Return of The Writer'Rejections this year: 0Works under consideration: 0Optimism Level: ModerateStress Level: Low to ticklishLove: AbsentMovies watched this weekend: Hot Fuzz, Dream GirlsSimon Pegg does the Geek Chap very well. Funny in a clever sort of this is a film reference sort of way. Jim Broadbent does it soooo well, in everything. Dreamt Dream Girls had finished and switched it off with thirty minutes to go.Generate and generate again.How do you get lots of material? Want to come up with some ideas? Don't limit yourself to 'a few ideas.' Say to yourself I'll come up with twenty. One is easy. Two still easy. Three is fine. Four and Five a mite sad. Then a wall. Push yourself and don't thin. The ideas become silly, REALLY silly and that's where the best stuff can be worked out (after the first inspiration).Currently working on:Twenty characters for short web based video. A creation to watch 'Maserarti' Henchman to an unknown evil genius. - MORE SOON -
Press Option 1
2005-11-13 23:37:00 What a ‘pity’Why do we write comedy? To make people laugh. Michael Bentine*** once described laughter as ‘White Magic.’Why fall in love with a woman you shouldn’t?Current ProjectWriting sketches, around ‘Speed-Dating,’ to be used in a film project with another writer, Andrew Ludlam. The idea is to come up with around 20 minutes of comedy material, to be filmed and sent to producers and agents. We could also offer it to dating Web sites. I’d invent a workshop/audition and we’d pick the performers for a shoot early next year.Why do we write comedy? How many times do I have to tell you, to make people laugh. OK where do ideas come from? If I hear another writer say from a shop around the corner I’ll set my own cliché on him/her/it/Ben Elton. If you want to write you teach yourself to make ideas happen. How do I do that then? Ask yourself one question ‘What if?’ And off you will go.*Press Option 1 to hear Option 2. Press star at any time…It’s funny (the ha h...
A Lap full of ooze
2005-09-17 12:48:00 There I was trying to finish another speculative sit com script and I lost my energy. I've been attacking it for months. Other things keep getting in the way. Various comedy competitions including 'Shoot The Writers' and the BBC3 Last Laugh, finish a sit com.I had an email this week saying my sketches for 'Shoot The Writers' would be broadcast 13th October, after midnight on ITV1. I suppose that's a blessing. Not that I'm pleased with the way they've done them but they are very honest and it is a great start.So what do I do with a half eaten sit com? Months of not getting it done and all because I can't 'fix' the central character. All the other stuff is there and will either fall or stand if I can fix the main man. I've given him a new name 'Van.' I've talked to him. I've invited him out for a coffee, paid him delicious complements and all I get is a blank stare and "You'll never make me alive copper!"PassionI go back to my writer's medicine and see that I have no... More About: Full
'And generally fart the national anthem...'
More articles from this author:2005-05-09 04:20:00 The Secret of my Failure Rejections this year: 2Works under consideration: 6Optimism Level: ModerateAnger Level: HighTodayWhy am I angry? A simple equation Not enough time + Ambition = One Fucked off writer. I have a Sit Com ‘Captain Nice’ out in the world, which is good. A lot of demands on my time and so many interruptions that I could spit, kick a wall, defame a vicar, set fire to a minor MP (party optional), and generally fart the national anthem...Snippet#1You are your own medicine. I forget where I first came across this advice (I’ve just googled it and come up with Urine: Your own Perfect Medicine) but it is the only way to learn, learn from yourself. I’ve been to workshops and writing weekends (which were great, particularly the Arvon Foundation, www.arvonfoundation.org). Yet none of them came up with stuff that lends ammunition to your armoury.How to do it?Keep a diary or card index, or a database of what works for you when you write and what didn’t. I do it for ... More About: National , Fart , Ally , The Nation , The National 1, 2, 3 |
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