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Started 5 years ago by editor
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The other thing about NewsBiscuit is that it can be a place to discuss comedy writing and find out about other opportunities. On that note, I feel compelled to remind you that BBC Radio's open submission show NewsJack is back and looking for material, so why not try your luck...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1hDdvFLfWClPHW7zT3sq01S/submit-a-sketch

Remember just because you had something on NewsBiscuit does not mean it can't be used again. On this website, copyright remains with the original author (and you can have any gags the editors added too...) Good luck...

Posted 5 years ago #
sydalg

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Thanks Ed, I think I'll try this.

Posted 5 years ago #
Dun Dunkin

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did you hear the ad for it after the news quiz? jeepers.

Posted 5 years ago #
sydalg

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No, what did it say?

Posted 5 years ago #
Dun Dunkin

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its probably on their webpage?

bbc comedy is broken imo like Fry said.

Posted 5 years ago #
Al OPecia

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In YOUR opinion.

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Dun Dunkin

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as an example of their attitude to their shows bbc put an agnostic in charge of religious programming ie someone with no clue about the subject. Nuff said.

Allan Davis said they now have to make 3 QI in a row on the same day and that's its 'no longer fun'. HIGNFY has been castrated with people unable to make jokes about a party leader unless they also make one about another leader. News Quiz is some trotsyite smoke in.

bbc could have been the leader in open source programming but they turned it down saying they didn't want people posting their unregulated rubbish on line [bbc sent staffers to strangle the idea]. Now more young people watch youtube than bbc and bbc are now chasing highly subbed youtubers [posting their 'unregulated rubbish' online] to be on BBC.

by the time you have complied with their guidelines of non offensive, inclusive, impartial you have tick boxed any laughs out of it. So no wonder all they doing is going retro dragging up and rehashing old shows.

but don't let me put you off....

if NB did a 3-5min a day news show reading out the headlines on youtube it would be a hit as i think there is more quality here than at bbc...imo

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Great to see an impartial view being exercised - I would have thought an agnostic was the perfect appointment - i.e. no axe to grind with any particular group of religious nutters. The bigger travesty is that no Humanist is allowed on "Thoughtlessness of the Day" on R4 in the morning. That Anne Atkins is a real little ray of sunshine.

lol, as you might say, Dun.

Posted 5 years ago #
Al OPecia

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Anyway, it's great to have yet another opportunity for my material not to be picked up.

Posted 5 years ago #
Adrian Bamforth

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I got a very nice £20 for a cheap one-liner on this show. However, I don't know about anyone else but it feels like a bit of a slow news period right now.

Posted 5 years ago #
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I would have thought an agnostic was the perfect appointment

It's worth noting that an agnostic (contrary to popular misconception) is not someone who is unsure whether God exists or not.

The word agnosticism - a relatively modern word - was coined by Professor Thomas Henry Huxley (grandfather of Brave New World author Aldous Huxley) at a meeting of the Metaphysical Society in 1876.

http://atheism.about.com/od/aboutagnosticism/a/huxley.htm

There was nothing vague or uncertain about his philosophy, which was a very positive one:

"Agnosticism is not a creed but a method, the essence of which lies in the vigorous application of a single principle ...Positively the principle may be expressed as in matters of intellect, do not pretend conclusions are certain that are not demonstrated or demonstrable."

Presumably the more recent philosophical school of Logical Positivism (Bertrand Russel, Professor A J Ayer etc.) originated from the same source.

Posted 5 years ago #
james_doc

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Anyone here get anything on this week?

Posted 5 years ago #
beau-jolly

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Come on Adrian. What was the score one liner?

Posted 5 years ago #
Adrian Bamforth

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It was a very time-specific gag shortly after a couple of social media viral stories:

'People everywhere have been talking about the incredible photo of a predatory weasel clinging on to a defenceless bird; yes, that John Travolta/Scarlett Johansson Oscars image just won’t go away.'

It was probably my least favourite line I sent, though always nice to be rewarded for referring to a woman as a bird.

I definitely heard a line on the show today also posted here, though it might well be great minds thinking alike.

I'd say with Newsjack keep it light.

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