thanks doctor. i met you at a channel 4 'thing' last year did i not? How's it going ?

It's all good thanks, chief - did my first stand up slot last month which went well.

Juggling my job, looking after my new daughter and carefully choosing which comedy opportunities to spend any time I've got on!

Well done Planet Giraffe! Had one idea thats morphed into a series so going to work on it a bit more, but in the meantime looking forward to readign your strip in Loaded!

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It's all good thanks, chief - did my first stand up slot last month which went well.

Just saw that in The Blog, yes... Excellent job... Would be fantastic if you could get some footage filmed next time for posting...

Cheers Seth! I do have some snatched footage of that gig that my mate took. It's very weird watching it back! But helpful.

Great blog doc and congrats on the stand up. My friends are trying to push me in that direction too. They're giving me until June to get standup material together and go to an open mic gig.

I feel safer in my sketch writing cocoon but I suppose it might be an idea to bite the bullet and go for it.
I know it must take guts to just get up there and do it. I admire your balls... not literally of course

The stand-up avenue is definitely one worth considering... It's a great way to get material in front of an audience and get an immediate feel for what works and what doesn't...

The writing aspect of live work - phrasing the gags just right and building to a strong conclusion via a series of smaller laughs, can all feed back into longer form script writing, too...

Not to mention the fact that if you're performing at the clubs in London, a lot of the TV people (and scouts) tend to hang out there looking for new people to work with... It's a definite route into picking up more substantial writing gigs, that's far more tried and tested than simply sending things in cold...

I'm all for it... Good luck to anyone who gives it a go...

OtterFox - you should go for it mate! You'd be great. It's such a good way of trying stuff out, like I said in the blog - even if you'd rather be the next Steven Marchant than the next Chris Rock, it's a great measure of what people find funny, as Seth says. It's maybe not for everyone if you don't feel ANY of your humour is transferable to the stage, but I've heard your audio stuff. Go for it.

There is no feeling like it when it goes well...(also no feeling like it when it goes badly)..I have some unused stand-up material if you are short. I still write it even though I stopped doing it. Happy to see it go to a good home.