If it bleeds you can eat it

Feb 04, 2005 01:26

Work on the sitcom is much less fun than I envisioned it. I imagined it as being all getting people coffee and scrubbing toilets and tripping over microphone leads and stuff. Unfortunately, as the writer, my role is quite different. It's less coffee and more writing. Which sucks, because I really like making coffee. Toilets I'm not so crash- ( Read more... )

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pooksterpup February 3 2005, 11:46:32 UTC
Once again, an excellent example of how my journal should be. Updated.

Very enjoyable. I especially enjoyed the piggyback scene. And the corpse thing. That was great. Now I have to go. Faeces awaits.

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Faeces. happypea February 7 2005, 23:12:01 UTC
I wish you wouldn't call me that.

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happypea February 7 2005, 23:11:42 UTC
That was a great journal entry. Lucas especially liked it. He kept explaining to me why your sitcom is so funny. It's not that I didn't GET why it's funny, it's just that whenever he thinks something is really hilarious he seems to like explaining why it's funny and laughing as he goes. I'm serious. Is he like this with you?

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wedley February 8 2005, 22:32:49 UTC
No, I don't recall him ever doing that. Sometimes I'll tell a subtle joke, though, and someone will say the obvious humourous ramification of my joke, as if they're explaining my own joke to me. That pisses me off.

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happypea February 8 2005, 23:39:44 UTC
Perhaps it's a more recent thing of his. And I guess I encourage it. We 're always retelling old jokes to each other and laughing as we explain them! It's really pretty creepy.

So why does it bug you when people explain your joke? Perhaps they're merely stating their appreciation of your...wit.

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wedley February 9 2005, 21:56:39 UTC
They're not stating an appreciation of my wit, they're only stating that my wit is completely unknown to them. I was waiting until this came up again so I would have an actual example, because this sort of thing is very hard to think up ( ... )

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It rratasted good theobold February 12 2005, 10:23:05 UTC
Year. Rtasted. You read it correctly. I see what you mean wes. obviously you are also my firend yet it was only today with elyse's cunning detective work that i managed to read your most recent edition of comedy gold. Personally I think it is a little lower in form than earlier editions/such as the homosexual japanese cowboys who drag a large jellyfish out of the desert and install it/ a la light fitting into their loft conversion. But full marks for slandering some of Australias finest comedians.

Hello Wes, it is nice to know you are still alive and that your career as a tv writer is taking leaps and bounds forward, do you think Gilbert will be graced with a logie for his work??? I dont think we will get it over here for a few months and be a bit behind -the neighbours syndrome as its known. Ah well at least it could replace one the £10 budget per season BBC reality shows about either buying or renovating a property or swaping houses with a stranger.

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Das Booty wedley February 13 2005, 00:04:15 UTC
Hrmm... Good point, a good point, well made. Maybe it's those months of inaction, my friend. Certainly in a new direction, but I'll see if I can't try to make the next one a little more high brow. Maybe it was Russell Gilbert that pulled it down.

He won't be getting a logie, but he has been nominated for Best Assault With A Deadly Weapon.

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I'm a TV exec in my spare time holterya March 23 2006, 08:11:09 UTC
Your concept intrigues me, but I must warn you - I'm far too cool to watch Fox.

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