Laugh Track

Resources page

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To help you get inspired to for our new writing talent search, Laugh Track, we've put together a collection of comedy writing resources and useful links below.

SCRIPTS

You can download the following sitcom scripts from our site:

Mrs Brown's Boys
Series 2, Episode 4

Brendan O'Carroll

Outnumbered
Series 4, Episode 5
Guy Jenkin & Andy Hamilton

Miranda
The New Me (Series 2 Episode 1)
Miranda Hart

Men Behaving Badly
Stag Night (Series 6 Episode 1)
Simon Nye

Browse more comedy scripts in our online script archive.

 
CLIPS

Miranda - 'Doctor Gail'

Mrs Brown's Boys - 'Mrs Brown as the Virgin Mary'

Vicar of Dibley - 'Dibley v Darcey'

Fawlty Towers - 'The Fawlty Goose Step'

 

USEFUL READING

- Graham Linehan on why he loves making sitcoms in front of live audiences
- Miranda Hart on how she somehow manages to drag her show from silly imaginings to a real, actual sitcom.
- Paul Mayhew-Archer on sitcom.
- BBC writersroom tips on writing sitcom scripts
- Mike Corke’s in-depth analysis of sitcom.

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Latest Opportunities

  1. Descent
    Deadline: June 30, 2012

  2. Little Brother's Big Opportunity II
    Deadline: August 31, 2012

  3. TV Drama Writers' Festival 2012
    Deadline: June 20, 2012

  4. COFILMIC & Gumption Sketch Writing Competition
    Deadline: May 31, 2012

  5. International Radio Playwrighting Competition 2012
    Deadline: July 31, 2012

View all current opportunities.

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