My comedy sketch is on Spotify!

Link inside this email!

Today is a good Monday. I found out a few days back that a sketch I wrote and acted in is now available online.

The sketch

A British businessman (who identifies as an American businessman) tries to impress a waitress, then upon finding Barack Obama at the bar, tries to impress him too, without totally embarassing himself.

Not my usual premise. But hearing it back, I was quite pleased with my “Brit pretending to be American” accent. Some of my friends didn’t even know it was me doing the voice.

How it happened

There’s a small organisation in Manchester (UK) called Comedy Stitch. They host workshops and classes for anything comedic, from stage plays to radio, and soon stand-up and television.

Wanting to experience more varied parts of writing Comedy, I signed up.

This sketch was recorded in Media City, Salford.

Listening to it back, I think it is the first step in an interesting new journey into radio and TV comedy.

Mine starts at around the minute mark, but I’d listen to the full thing, all the sketches are good.

Thanks for checking this out. If you want to help my comedy work get noticed, you can share this post with a friend, or generate a QR code for it, then print that out, then glue it to the back of someone you love, then send them out into the wild.

Go on, you know you want to…

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Bonus: You can direct Halfplanet

So I hired an editor recently. I’ve known them for a while, and hopefully they’ll be the in-house editor for a lot of Halfplanet projects. We get along well, but there can be disagreements sometimes. I have my own writing style that I’ve been developing since around 2010. I use American dialogue tags with UK spelling. I also don’t put a space after an elipsis… to show a thought or bit of dialogue is meandering away into silence. To me, this style works the best visually.

But apparently, the industry standard here in the UK is to not do that, and to instead do this …

Which I don’t think I like. It stands out too much from having! or, or. at the end of sentences, and thus feels erroneous even when it isn’t…

I want to go for accessibility over allegiance to a certain tradition.

So what is best?