Eighteen weeks is a lot of weeks. It was an okay week, I got several jokes in, but I noticed a lot of my premises were used, verbatim, but a totally different punchline was written. It's rough doing joke writing remotely and 3 time zones away. There's no comparing notes, not riffing, no back and forth, just a blind submission and a hope for the best. I get rewrites I do, and when the logic of my punchline is maintain, I'm counting it as mine, like the Trump/convention/school bit. My punchline was comparing the cancelled convention to wondering if they'll just hold the convention at a public school, since we keep hearing how safe they are. The logic was maintained, so it's mine. My punchline to the vote to oust Confederate statues out of Congress's lobby was "to make room for more lobbyists," which took the joke in a different (and I hope, unexpected) direction. Instead it got turned into the present punchline, which now that I check, is closer in tone and logic to the punchline I submitted the previous day, for a similar joke about the same vote.
That's what I'm seeing, the punchlines are getting longer and more convoluted and preachy and singularity more anti-Trump. Which, as I learned from my days at Newsbusted, is going to kill the comedy. It's a bit frustrating, so I'm glad I get to hash it out here.
Anyway, you can watch TMI: Daily on Facebook, weeknights at 6pm on (Hollywood time) or catch it as a podcast. Enjoy!
That's what I'm seeing, the punchlines are getting longer and more convoluted and preachy and singularity more anti-Trump. Which, as I learned from my days at Newsbusted, is going to kill the comedy. It's a bit frustrating, so I'm glad I get to hash it out here.
Anyway, you can watch TMI: Daily on Facebook, weeknights at 6pm on (Hollywood time) or catch it as a podcast. Enjoy!
