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Hari KanthNotes and thoughts from a comedy writer – working towards the dream of writing my own sitcom, one joke at a time \ud83e\udd73
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Redefining sitcoms with The Good Place
Note: as you can probably guess, this essay contains major spoilers for the first season of The Good Place. I’d really recommend watching it before reading this…
How do you define a sitcom?
James Cary describes them as a ‘permanent...
A scratch night for sketch comedy films
TL;DR: I run a scratch night for sketch comedy films called Sketchburn! Check out our website or follow us on Instagram to learn more about upcoming shows.
The Problem
As you know, most live comedy is forged with audience feedb...
Don't stop playing the game
So the future of UK sitcoms seems… bleak.
Earlier this year, Broadcast ran an article titled: “Is it curtains for scripted comedy?” I didn’t get the feeling the answer was going to be: “lol, no, everything’s great!” — and sure enough, it...
Finding your comedy people
I think the best comedy comes from teams of writers.
In the classic sense, this means co-writing a script with someone else, or working in a fabled writers’ room. But even when I’ve written scripts ‘on my own’, they only really became goo...
Writing jokes with The Simpsons
I fell in love with comedy in the summer of ‘98.
It was a simpler time, when you could only watch the shows the TV gods wanted you to watch — and I guess they really wanted me to watch The Simpsons. Between BBC Two (one episode every week...
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