Script chat, different sketch same joke

Interesting to see/hear the development process but I agree with TPoz - we'd never get anything finished. lol

I just came back to this because I had the thought. For fleshing out the characters the skit where the men are talking to their babies in the cafe (passive aggressive something, sorry I don’t remember the title!) was formatted in a way that might carry over well to something like what you hit on here about fleshing out the characters and their thoughts or reactions. Just an idea fwiw. <3

Georgie Ferguson

You three make the sketches so funny, so intelligent, so intricate and deep-layered for comedy, that it's a delight to see the work that goes into it. Because in the end, it LOOKS effortless, and I know for a fact it isn't. I am a writer and editor and often by the time the first draft is finished, what is at the end/conclusion is really what you wanted to say and so you start with that. Or I take a submission and it has a number of good things but they're all in the wrong order and simply rearranging, with just the right segue/line and we have a winner. What I DON'T understand is how you all actually get everything finished because I would be laughing my head off and never able to proceed!

I laughed out loud, literally, about the evidence bag!

SNL is the WORST. They are so unpredictably brilliant and then cringey you never know if you’ll feel happy or gross afterward.

Georgie Ferguson

😊 Love these insights into your creative process! I agree that the utensils going in an evidence bag would have been hilarious* - but the finished sketch that we did get was effective and "punchy" in its conciseness. (*Might you consider some sort of sequel to the Dinner Party Detectives?) I'm looking forward to "When The Waiter Doesn't Like You" now! For some reason I'm imagining one diner complains about a fly in his soup and the waiter takes it out and puts it in the other diner's soup...

selkie

It’s so interesting to hear about your process and there were so many good jokes that didn’t make it… I think the fork in the evidence bag was my favourite 😂

Honestly, I did. These guys are incredibly consistent with how often they make me laugh. EVERY SINGLE Thursday. Not all comedy writers can be that consistent. (Cough cough, SNL, cough cough. Lol). So that’s what’s most impressive for me. ❤️

Lauren Conrad

I write novels and I know there are plenty of people out there who write screenplays and we all think deeply about character interactions. So it’s so fascinating to hear the thought process of a comedy sketch writer, especially a group as brilliant as you three. ❤️

Lauren Conrad

Always super interesting to get an insight into your creative process!

Melissa Nordling (TippyTheTerror)

Decisions, decisions, decisions... who knew comedy was so difficult? Brilliant insight, thank you very much for taking the time.

I have to view this twice first: looking at Arms 😍 second: looking AND listening at Arms -The baggie of evidence sounds like something for the Dinner Detectives -Short video? Hmmm I call it sweet and short like your old videos. You've hit the right spots in those 63 seconds. You even had a flashback and a PLOT TWIST -The carcass at the start is just about right in my opinion, like with almost no preamble, you just delivered it so unashamedly 🤣 I'm not a vegan but I've been trying to eat less meat over the past few years. Yesterday, I had no choice but to eat a hamburger. I didn't enjoy it as much (not blaming you, lads...oh okay, maybe blaming you a bit hahaha 😂🤣) I feel like this could make a good campaign for veganism if Carl's bit was cut off 😆 PS Monday and Thursday YouTube videos---- 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽 PPS When you said "butternut squash", I remembered your story during Anne Flanagan's stream