Thursday, July 8, 2010

7 Days series two is now nine episodes in and so far I've had 12 gags to air, including a whopping six in the last episode. I now realise that my whole week has become consumed with 7 Days, because on Wednesday I begin writing the jokes, on Thursday I submit them, on Friday night I watch the show on TV (or watch it the next day on the network website) to see which of my gags got in, and then all weekend I look forward to Tuesday for confirmation of what gags I got in... then the next day it all starts again for the next episode! Last week I submitted 80 jokes and got six to air, four of which were for the games "Answers" and "Caption That". The other two jokes were "script jokes" - my first script jokes to air - about news stories for the games at the top of the show such as "What's the Story" and "My Kid could Draw That". I was very happy with the script jokes I submitted this week and feel as though I'm improving in this area. Six jokes breaks the old record for most jokes to air by a single spec writer by two. Apparently some magazine has voted 7 Days New Zealand's best comedy show of the last 50 years... stoked I'm helping make it so.