The Comedy Department

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A career in

light entertainment

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Break the story. Shape the script. Punch up the jokes. Match the right comedy to the wrong audience, and bluff your way from a damp room on the Fringe to Head of Comedy.

PRESS TO BEGIN ▸

Series 1 · Episode 1 · “The First Draft”

DRAFT

Personnel · Form NS/1

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Where do you come from?

REPORT FOR DUTY ▸

Commissioning · the brief

What are you making, and for whom?

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Your script reads

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Before you start · the room

Staff the production

Writers’ room

More writers means a bigger hand of scenes to choose from, and more alternate jokes at the punch-up.

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Rehearsal days

A run-through smooths the rough edges. Each day spent makes the broadcast night a little less of a gamble.

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Script editor

A senior pen to read the whole thing cold. Tightens the shape, finds a punch you walked past, and quietly saves you from yourself.

INTO THE ROOM ▸

The story so far

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↻ Deal another set

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Pick the line you’d actually keep. The room won’t tell you which is funniest — that’s rather the job.

The moment

Production · before transmission

Cast it and sell it

Who leads it?

How hard do you push it?

TRANSMIT ▸

Track Record

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You made it. Now run the place.

HEAD OF COMEDY

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The Writers’ Room

On the payroll

No writers yet. A department of one is just a man in a meeting with himself.

Let go

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GREENLIT

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What are you making, and for whom?

Staff the production

Cast it and sell it

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HEAD OF COMEDY

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