There are certain sorts of programmes that inspire high levels of fan activity online - and Psychoville is one of them. It's a new series and it isn't even finished yet, but there's all sorts of stuff popping up on the web.
There's the small but beautifully designed fan community Red Raw Stump, which along with a forum also contains a fan-made 'advert' for a new mobile phone.
Staying on YouTube, there's some fun being had on the Psychoville character's Channels. David Sowerbutts has become #5 Most Subscribed This Month (well done David!) and, along with Mr Jelly (#6 Most Subscribed), has been leaving responses to his commentors. See if you can spot them.
In socialnetworkingland, as well as our own official page, a proliferation of Facebook groups and other pages have appeared, while every Thursday everyone's all a-Twitter about the show - which even became a trending topic during the first episode.
And of course, the forums on longstanding League of Gentlemen fansites such as This is a Local Shop and lofg.com have been talking about Psychoville since it was announced.
Have you found any great Psychoville tributes online? Let us know below.
Q: What do you call three hundred sketches about Michael Jackson? A: My inbox two weeks ago.
The week before that it was Sir Alan Sugar; last week it was Spies On Facebook. Each week on Newsjack, Radio 7's new topical sketch show, there's one story that really captures our writers' imaginations. Of course there are only so many Suralan sketches you can fit into a 28 minute programme and as script editor, it's partly my job to work out how many that is. It's none, by the way - if three hundred people have made the same joke by Monday, it's a good chance that, come Thursday night when the show is broadcast, everyone in the country will be sick to death of it.
However, the great thing about working on Newsjack has been reading witty, punchy, laugh-out-loud funny sketches and jokes that dodge the obvious and that have come in from new writers. Each week I see a couple of the same names coming through stronger and stronger and each week there's someone completely new with a cracking bit of material. The show does have a regular team of commissioned writers - in case no one sends anything in - but my basic aim is to get as much non-commissioned stuff on air as possible. Sometimes, it'll be just as it arrived in the email but often a sketch has to be rewritten, either for time or clarity or just to punch it up. In fact, right up until the recording, we're tweaking jokes and fiddling with lines. That's the great thing about radio - the actors don't need to learn it.
I started out writing for an open door topical radio show back in the heady days of the 90s and it's great that the BBC is trying something similar. I think it teaches you those two vital skills of the comedy writer - learning to write to a brief and dealing with rejection. If you've sent stuff in to Newsjack and we haven't used it, just look on it as part of the business and keep writing. Once you've worked your way up to the exquisite pain of a sitcom bombing in front of a panel of stony-faced commissioners, you won't even remember that unfairly dismissed one-liner about Freddie Flintoff.
We've only got one show left of this series, but there is another one planned for the near future so, if you've ever fancied writing comedy, have a listen to the show and then have a go at some sketches.
Actually, some of these new guys are pretty good. What am I thinking? I've got a child to feed. So, on second thoughts, go away - comedy's full.
Dan Tetsell is Script Editor of Newsjack. Find out how to submit your sketches at the Newsjack website.
An obnoxious American news reporter? Step forward Ruby Wax. She plays a reporter called Candida in the latest episode of Taking the Flak, which follows a team of journalists in an African war
zone.
Here is an exclusive video shown on Red Button followed by an interview with Ruby.
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Who did you look to for inspiration in performing your character? Any particular American anchors.
There were a lot of role models to draw on for obnoxious American. Like Barbara Walters. So many people who don't really care about humanity at all -that's what I grew up with in the States. Now they're making them in quieter versions, on the outside anyway.
How did you get involved with the show?
Tira - who created Flak and co-wrote it, is my best friend from when we were in kindergarten together. She had no choice but to include me. It's vital to make important friends at age five who can come up with the goods later in life.
What was it like filming in Tanzania?
It was much more fun because it's a great country...not the same boring faces...all life is there.
I was able to sit in on one of the trials about the genocide in Rwanda at the War Crimes Tribunal in Tanzania. Shocking and moving.
On the weekend I joined Tira, our cameraman and glamorous lawyer from the UN on safari. We were surrounded by every kind of wild game like a re-enactment of 'The Lion King'. At night we had a tented camp to ourselves, the hyenas yowled, the stars were bright and the Masai danced with spears, guttural grunts and yodels while jumping three feet into the air. It was a little different than filming in the UK.
What are you working on now?
I'm doing "Live from the Priory" a play which eventually will go into theatre. It's a two woman show about the world as we know it and seen from the eyes of all of us.
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There's the small but beautifully designed fan community Red Raw Stump, which along with a forum also contains a fan-made 'advert' for a new mobile phone.
We've also spotted this fantastic illustration of Mr Jelly by Andrea Munuera on deviantART, and if you head over to YouTube you can see the show's "rejected title sequence".
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