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Listed below are comments made by drvole between Saturday, 16th August 2008 and Thursday, 16th July 2009.

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Caption Competition 1:24pm on 16 Jul 2009 Michael McIntyre's particular brand of high-pitched observational comedy has endeared him to a whole new audience.
The surgery is open 4:41pm on 13 Dec 2008 Micheal.

There's often advice and opportunities on this site for sketch and sitcom writers, but what if you want to write comedy scripts for entertainment or panel shows?

What's the best way into that side of things - topical gags, links etc?

Appreciate your time with this.
From script to screen 3:18pm on 07 Oct 2008 @ Micheal

Great post, Micheal. You're right that the forums I suspect you're talking about sometimes have frustrated contributors who cross the line between criticism and vitriol.

There's sometimes an 'us and them' environment created on such threads, particularly by new or unsuccessful writers who think of producers and commissioners as faceless bureacrats whose only feedback comes in the form of silence or a rejection letter. They whip up some kind of (insert name of a middle England 'quality' tabloid here)-style hate frenzy sometimes. That's why the writersroom blogs and the occasional producers that take a deep breath and dive into online communities themselves are so cool; they break down those walls.
The College goes to Edinburgh 8:37pm on 16 Aug 2008 I'd like to see that - did Steve Kaplan's Comedy Intensive course a month or so ago and a key part of his lecture is Wit Vs Comedy or, as he suggests, Shakespeare Vs Moliere. Steve encourages the notion that Moliere saved comedy from wit.

That's one thing I wish I'd known before I sent my first sitcom script to the writer's room a couple of years ago. The other? Micheal's advice to avoid plots with unexpected legacies featuring onerous conditions. That was the core of my entire sitcom!

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