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.
New opp from Little Brother Productions:£1000 to develop an original TV drama to treatment stage: http://t.co/S0Czw1yl
2 days ago
Excited about our Q&A with David Eldridge @deldridgewriter at Broadway Barking tonight. Any questions you'd like us to ask??
6 days ago
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May 18, 2012
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