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Saturday, December 11, 2010

Could IT'S BRISBANE TONITE WOW be a success

 

Well it could if the sound issues aren't a big as i thought they could be.

 

Why do I do all this? Am I asking you or me? Me. Actually I'm not really good at anything else but writing comedy. I've been doing it since grade 3. And I have no other ambition. I have no desire to be anyone's boss.

It's a sad fact that I've spent most of my life being very ordinary at most things. Of course I was good at most sports at a B or C grade level and that took up my weekends until I was 35.

 Of course I'm slightly intelligent and can hold a conversation at a public bar but that doesn't pay the bills. Actually for a lot of people it does pay the bills. Why doesn't it pay my bills.
 

But IT'S BRISBANE TONIGHT WOW!  which may change that an allow me to do the one thing I do well. Write Comedy.

When I was a younger man I held onto this dream and in the process did  menial jobs and experiences. If I had my life over again I would do every possible experience that came my way . Even now I still remember working at places like the ice works for a day and at this chemical plant because the usual employees refused to offload this chemical because it was too dangerous. ( They didn't tell us that before we went there)  I wouldn't want to do it for more than  a day but it was an experience even if a menial one. One day at any of these places is a gold mine of comedy material and it's so much better to know what you might be writing about than to make up some contrived situation.   

Now I'm just doing any job that comes along. ( badly)

I want to write more comedy this year. My theories need to be exercised or exorcised depending on your point of view.

(Theory) A comedy story is a series of things going wrong until the last scene.

Friday, December 3, 2010

THE STOLEN SKETCHES

The Stolen Sketches.

 Well of course I lose sleep over this., I could be living at Malibu right now.

In the early 90's  I sent buy snail mail sketches to each of the major sketch shows in Melbourne. I'd been waiting all my life for these shows to happen and when they did I thought with my years of material sitting dormant I would be finally in the door.

 So I'd send off the sketch, hear nothing and the a few months later I see the sketch on TV.

For the writer who went to the TV station mailbox it was just another credit and maybe a paycheck. I never blamed the producers because it was in their interest to contact me.

For the record nothing was stolen by THE LATE SHOW team. 

If only one of those show credited  me for one of those sketches things could be very different now.