How Can I Make My Pilot Sitcom Script FUNNIER?

Why you should start in the middle of your pilot sitcom script.

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[KarpoCottage]

I've been wanting to make "gag" comics, but I kept writing the beginning and feeling it was taking forever to get the the status quo. Thank you so much for this!

[grandmastersethy]

Haha, I was totally going to start my pilot on her first day of work. Thanks for this!

[philippriestman]

I enjoyed bluestone, I enjoyed this……in like Flynn! No arsing around, no wasting time telling us what this video is going to be all about then going about it…..eventually, noice one!

[davidaarthur]

I just watched the pilot for the US series 'Just Shoot Me', and it was really bizarre in exactly this respect. It starts in the middle, with the main character working at a television station, and it works instantly. But after a couple of minutes, she's fired - and the rest of the show is about her starting a new job!

[Geek_Pie]

More useful stuff and although you've said this a thousand times on the podcast the way you've summarised it here made it really hit home. Nice lighting BTW! 👍🏻

[KrevalHawk]

Man, I could’ve used your advice a year ago! (& now)

[jackspde]

Bluestone looks pretty good I’ll have to check that out. I hope you keep making videos. Good stuff

[d-resmin]

MASH is probably the most famous sitcom to do that. It doesn't start with the beginning of the war and no new person comes to the 4077th. Hawkeye is already clashing with Frank and trying to acheive a goal.

[Dani_London]

this is an amazing video, thanks for the knowledge! I will be submitting some scripts this year. Also, if I were you, I'd ask your parents about where exactly you were born because there's a high chance you are the long-lost twin of Dr Todd Grande.

[SM-gdjh]

I really loved it❤❤❤❤❤❤ would use your wisdom ❤

[bubzt]

So do you need to have a completed Pilot script before you can pitch a sitcom? Also, do you need one to get an Agent?

[gianttwinkie]

You have a different definition of sitcom when you kill someone on their first day at work. In the States we refer to that as a tragedy.

[KAZVorpal]

"Start in the middle" is the most mindlessly overdone thing in video media, today.

[cryohazard]

You wrote for Miranda? How do I block this channel

[GaryTongue-zndi]

What do you know? Your British! The British aren't funny, except Rowan Atkinson!