Podcasts about sitcom geeks

Exciting news - today Sitcom Geeks launch our Sitcom Script Competition in association with the mighty Hat Trick and BCG Pro - with £1000 for the winning script. What we're looking for, what we're not looking for, why it's free to enter and what to do next, all discussed in breathless excited detail by James and Dave. Competition website: www.comedy.co.uk/hattrick

Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon for Episode 16 of their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week's guests are comedy writer Dave Cohen and stand up comedian Adam Bloom.Follow them on social media, follow US on social media and don't forget to let us know what you think about the show.Facebook: @JewTalkinTwitter: @JewTalkinInstagram: @JewTalkinLots more fantastic episodes waiting to be released every Friday morning, so don't forget to subscribe and leave us a 5* review - it really helps other people find the show. Go on...it's what your mother would want!--------------------------------------------------------------------- Adam Bloom: Twitter @adambloomie2 Website: http://www.adam-bloom.com/Multi award winning stand up comic Adam Bloom is one of Britain's most inventive comedians. He has performed sell-out solo shows at 7 Edinburgh Festivals as well as performing a sell-out tour of Britain. He has also sold out theatres at festivals in Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland, Wellington & Cape Town. He's made an incredible 5 appearances at ‘Just For Laughs' in Montreal, including being part of the 'Just For Laughs Comedy Tour', playing to 42,000 people in 17 cities across Canada. He has also written three series of ‘The Problem with Adam Bloom' for BBC Radio 4. Other TV credits include ‘The Young Person's Guide to Becoming a Rock Star' and ‘Comedy Lab' (Channel 4), ‘Never Mind The Buzzcocks', ‘Mock The Week', ‘The Stand-up Show' and ‘Edinburgh Nights' (BBC2), ‘Head On Comedy' (BBC1), and ‘Comedy World Tour', ‘The World Stands Up' and ‘The Comedy Store' (Comedy Central).Dave Cohen:Twitter @DaveCohenComedy Insta @completecomedywriterWebsite: https://www.davecohen.org.uk/ Writer, comedian, Edinburgh Festival Perrier Award nominee, founder member of the Comedy Store Players, Dave Cohen has written for some of the most successful TV shows including ‘Have I Got News For You', ‘Spitting Image', ‘Not Going Out' and ‘My Family', and dozens of radio shows including ‘News Quiz', ‘Dead Ringers' and the award-winning ‘15 Minute Musical', which he co-created. Dave was lead singer with the world's first Jewish heavy metal band Guns'n'Moses and in 2000 made the series ‘Travels With My Anti-Semitism' for BBC Radio 4. He's written nearly 100 songs for the multi-BAFTA winning BBC hit Horrible Histories and has been script editing and teaching comedy writing to everyone from beginners to hit sitcom writers. Dave has written two books, How To Be Averagely Successful At Comedy and The Complete Comedy Writer. He also has a podcast with James Cary called Sitcom Geeks, and you can find all episodes here.--------------------------------------------------------------------- *This episode was recorded under lockdown conditions. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

As one half of the renowned Sitcom Geeks, Dave knows more than a little about what it takes to be a successful comedy writer. From his early association with Rik Mayall and co, through award-winning sitcoms and sketch shows, right through to his latest novel, Dave's offcuts cover the various trends of comedy from the past 40 years. Clips performed by: Chris Pavlo, Emma Clarke, Keith Wickham and Rachel Atkins. Dave Cohen was a stand-up comedian and founder member of the Comedy Store Players with Mike Myers and Paul Merton and now works as a writer, script editor and tutor (or as he describes himself on his Huffington Post page: "comedian, writer, typist". ) On TV his many writing credits include panel shows, sketch shows and sitcoms with programmes like multi-award-winning CBBC series Horrible Histories (for which he's written over 100 songs), Have I Got News For You, and Lee Mack's Not Going Out. On radio he co-created Radio 4's 15 Minute Musical, and performed in his own series Travels With My Anti Semitism as well as writing for many flagship comedy shows such as The News Quiz and The Treatment. He's published 2 books about how to write comedy: The Complete Comedy Writer and How To Be Averagely Succesful At Comedy, with a third book, a novel, out shortly. As well as teaching comedy and script editing for other writers Dave has also co-hosted the Sitcom Geeks podcast with James Cary for the past 5 years, which now has nearly 150 episodes and is still going strong. Episode show notes and more details:  https://offcutsdrawer.com/dave-cohen Listen to us on whichever podcast app you prefer:  https://offcutsdrawer.com/insta-links/ or if you don't usually listen to podcasts you can hear all the episodes here: offcutsdrawer.com/episodes/

This week, we interview special guest (and friend of the podcast) James Cary, talking about sitcoms from a Christian perspective.James is a professional comedy writer, writing for TV (Miranda, Bluestone 42) and radio, as well as working with stand-up comedian Milton Jones. He's written a number of books, most recently The Sacred Art of Joking (SPCK 2019), and hosts a bunch of podcasts (including Cooper and Cary Have Words, Sitcom Geeks, and Popcorn Parenting). He also sits on the Synod of the Church of England.We talk about his path into comedy, why the sitcom is a "Christian" genre and how it's changing in a post-Christian world, and what his most recent book has to say about it all.ShownotesJames Cary's WebsiteThe Sacred Art of Joking (book - published by SPCK)Cooper & Cary Have Words (podcast)Hello Mormonism (podcast)The Inquisition (podcast)Popcorn Parenting (podcast)Sitcom Geeks (podcast)The God Particle (play)

We are 50! To celebrate, we've got 12 other podcast crews on the show! They're reviewing the films behind such film trailer sketches as Murder on the Orient Express Replacement Bus Service and Bill and Ted's Excel Adventure. Prepare for mayhem! Starring our usual cast plus these amazing Podcasters: Comedy Geeks, Rough Giraffe, Gamma Radio, Varmints, Murder Mile True Crime Podcast, Epic Film Guys, Gravity Beard, 2 Girls on a Bench, Sitcom Geeks, ABCD-Bagz, RagBag Podcast featuring Frank Burton, and Politics With Dummies.

Today on The Comedy Cast we speak to stand-up comedian, comedy writer and author Dave Cohen. We speak about his new book The Complete Comedy Writer, being a writer for a multitude of hit comedy television programmes and the podcast he hosts along with James Cary, Sitcom Geeks

Following the leaking of a scene from #DoctorWho Series 11 and news of a new composer, Christian Cawley and James McLean discuss: what's the best scene in A Bit of Fry & Laurie season 1, episode 2…? Plus some #sdcc annoyances. Shownotes * [San Diego Comic Con](https://www.comic-con.org) * [New Doctor Who composer is Segun Akinola](http://thedoctorwhocompanion.com/2018/06/27/doctor-who-series-11-to-be-scored-by-segun-akinola/)  * [Doctor Who on Twitch podcast](http://beyondkasterborous.com/index.php/2018/06/08/watching-doctor-who-on-twitch/) * [A Bit of Fry & Laurie Series 1 Episode 2](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2jjqbg) * [Sitcom Geeks podcast](https://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/sitcom_geeks/) (the only other podcast Christian listens to) * [David Tennant downsizes his merchandise collection](http://thedoctorwhocompanion.com/2018/06/25/david-tennant-admits-hes-downsizing-his-doctor-who-collection/)

Peter Capaldi, Russell T Davies, Star Wars: The Last Jedi; we're covering everything in this week's news-centric podKast with a K, starring Christian Cawley and James Baldock! Should you be concerned about the "William Hartnell script" that is coming up for auction? Is Doctor Who really a children's show after all? Is Russell T Davies happy with the idea of a female Doctor at last? And why isn't Peter Capaldi on Twitter? Click "play" to hear all this and more… Shownotes [](http://www.andyandtheoddsocks.com) [Andy and the Odd Socks - (Andy Day from CBeebies)](http://www.andyandtheoddsocks.com) [](https://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/sitcom_geeks/) [Sitcom Geeks](https://www.comedy.co.uk/podcasts/sitcom_geeks/) [](https://www.antiquestradegazette.com/news/2018/doctor-who-script-for-very-first-episode-owned-by-william-hartnell-comes-up-at-auction/) [An Unearthly Child script with "William Hartnell notes" for auction](https://www.antiquestradegazette.com/news/2018/doctor-who-script-for-very-first-episode-owned-by-william-hartnell-comes-up-at-auction/) [](https://amzn.to/2Hdt9pZ) [Doctor Who Lego](https://amzn.to/2Hdt9pZ) [](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGKHqdvNzZA) [Lego Dimensions](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGKHqdvNzZA) [](http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/happy-birthday-peter-capaldi-2018-87429.htm) [Peter Capaldi is 60](http://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/happy-birthday-peter-capaldi-2018-87429.htm) [](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StVbK98udjE) [PodKast live reaction to Peter Capaldi casting](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StVbK98udjE) [](http://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2018-04-14/peter-capaldi-reveals-why-hes-not-on-social-media/) [Peter Capaldi isn't a fan of social media](http://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2018-04-14/peter-capaldi-reveals-why-hes-not-on-social-media/) [](http://beyondkasterborous.com/index.php/2015/07/15/steven-moffat-right-bemoan-twitters-audience-research-capability/) [Steven Moffat dismisses Twitter (2015 podKast)](http://beyondkasterborous.com/index.php/2015/07/15/steven-moffat-right-bemoan-twitters-audience-research-capability/) [](http://thedoctorwhocompanion.com/2018/04/12/what-if-doctor-who-is-a-childrens-show/) [What if Doctor Who Is a Children's Show?](http://thedoctorwhocompanion.com/2018/04/12/what-if-doctor-who-is-a-childrens-show/) [BeyondKasterborous discusses The Last Jedi](http://thedoctorwhocompanion.com/2018/04/12/what-if-doctor-who-is-a-childrens-show/) [](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxjMN5i2hCw) [What's Your Story? with Sylvester McCoy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxjMN5i2hCw) [](https://forbiddenplanet.com/events/2018/04/13/doctor-who-target-books-event/) [Target book signing with Russell T Davies, Steven Moffat, Jenny Colgan, Anthony Dry](https://forbiddenplanet.com/events/2018/04/13/doctor-who-target-books-event/) [](http://thedoctorwhocompanion.com/2018/04/12/russell-t-davies-has-grown-up-after-worrying-about-casting-a-female-doctor/) [Russell T Davies evolves his thoughts on a female Doctor](http://thedoctorwhocompanion.com/2018/04/12/russell-t-davies-has-grown-up-after-worrying-about-casting-a-female-doctor/) Recommendations: [](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSp1dM2Vj48) [Ready Player One](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSp1dM2Vj48) [Macbeth (2018)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dygaJP0MxDw)

A special early edition of the show to give you time to catch up with Ben Elton's sitcom lecture on iPlayer, which Dave and James discuss at length. Plus Newsjack updates, comedy writer Susan Nickson seeks advice, exciting news about Patreon - and proof that Sitcom Geeks is good for you.

Dave and James' first foray into Facebook Live answering your sitcom-related questions is now a podcast, plus some thoughts on the recently announced BBC pilots. To watch it and see their pallid writerly faces, check out the Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/Sitcom-Geeks-103111846703601/