‘How to be funny’ - Look mum! I write for the BBC now!

The Beeb have launched a new comedy website, the idea is to get people creating funny stuff via the interwebs and the best stuff might end up as TV show.

They very nicely showered me with cash to write some tips.

King of Chavs TV Titles

And in other news, the Keith Allen documentary on Michael Carroll was broadcast on Channel 4 the other day. I did the titles, which you can watch here. WARNING: Contains loud swearing.

3 Responses to “‘How to be funny’ - Look mum! I write for the BBC now!”

  1. MJ Hibbett Says:

    GRATE advice there Mr Manuel - alarmingly, pretty much all of it works for SONGS too!

  2. jazzle Says:

    I saw that, and though it must be you, and actually watched the credits to check!

  3. noonard Says:

    “When creating humour for a specific web community it’s easy to get bogged down with in-jokes. You can find yourself making material that is only accessible to the people who live and breathe the website.

    Bizarre codewords and sayings can attach themselves to a site. These are pretty much meaningless to anyone other than the most ardent devotee.”

    Bahahaha! Hummus indeed you twunty purple b3tan! Apologies for girth, etc.

    Something like that? :)

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