Wanted: Comendy sketch writers and everybody else

hanman · Mar 24, 2008

Hi everyone.
I’m looking to put together, or join a group of people interested in writing comedy sketches. I also want to know if their any directors, actors or anybody else who wants to take part in this thing. It would be starting up right from the bottom. In other words, no money, no experience no anything. What I’m looking to do is create a kind of Monty Python group. Everybody does a bit of everything, although if you have a speciality then you’d be doing a lot more of that.

A good group of five to ten people would be able to make pilot episodes a lot easier than just one or two people on their own and may stand a better chance of getting funds.

So, anybody interested give me a shout. I also want to read other peoples sketches or ideas for sketches. So attach them here and let’s have a look.

dpaterso · Mar 24, 2008

I'm just saying, over on the Done Deal screenwriting board (some AW members are also members there, myself included, so there's some cross-pollination goes on between the two boards) a for-fun-only comedy sketch contest just finished. The entries can be viewed in this thread in the DD Writing Exercises forum:

March Madness Entries - Invitational Round - ADULT CONTENT WARNING

I dare say you'd be welcome to read and comment on the entries even if it's too late to cast your votes in this round (the voting deadline was last night). I'll be posting my (brief) comments there as soon as the results are announced.

-Derek

Death Bean · Mar 24, 2008

Hanman, are you looking for an online group who sends their sketches to one another to look over/correlate or would this be a group that meets each other face to face?

If it's the former, I'd be interested, if you'd have me... I've not been scriptwriting for a long time, but I'm an avid humourist and can usually pull out something snort-worthy outta my hat. People laugh at me in real life, too. I just need to walk down the street.

hanman · Mar 24, 2008

Hi there

Ideally I’m looking to put together a group that meet. But considering that I’m in Ireland and I suspect you might be in America, that could prove difficult. Some of the other’s, from other sites, that have shown an interest are from England and that’s okay, it’s only forty minuets away by plane. But I would still love to see anything you’ve got. This thing is still in the very early stages and you never know, if what you write is good enough we could use it and credit you as the writer. All just pie in the sky at the moment. Either way I love to read anything with a bit of humour in it. If you just want to correspond by e-mail and don’t want anybody else to see your stuff that’s okay too.

stephensan · Mar 24, 2008

Hi Hanman,

Not sure how much I'd be able to contribute as I'm a scriptwriting newbie but I'd really like to get involved.

I've been kicking around the idea of a 6 part comedy series for Radio 4 about a group of recently divorced men and... Well that's it so far really. I've spent a fair bit of time looking for a local scriptwriting group in Belfast but the area seems more focused on poetry. Nothing wrong with poetry but I've just never had the prose.

If there's a chance of collaboration (virtual or local) then I'd be very interested.

Cheers

Stephen

Death Bean · Mar 26, 2008

Okay, I'll see - got quite a lot going on at the moment, but if I've a spare minute I'll get in touch.

Stylo · Mar 27, 2008

Hi Hanman - you can also go to sitcom.co.uk and look at the writers/critique forum there - tons of sketch writers (myself included!)

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