Sitcom Geeks
A podcast series for those interested in the mechanics of situation comedy. James Cary and Dave Cohen discuss the art of sitcom writing for TV and Radio.
Episode 222 - The One That Bids You Good Day
Episode 221 - Everything Everywhere All Over Eight Years
Episode 220 - Not Just An Other Show
Episode 219 - Fashioning Your Future, And Planning For Ours
Episode 218 - Conference Calling
Episode 217 - The Forsyth Saga
Episode 216 - From Wireless To West End
Episode 215 - Playing The Long Game
Episode 214 - Liking The Sound of Your Own Voice
Episode 213 - Abigail's Book Party
Episode 212 - What A Plot Is Not
Episode 211 - Steve Bugeja is Buffering
Episode 210 - Attention! Your BBC Needs You
Episode 209 - Chasing The Dream: 5 Ways to Build Your Writing Career in 2023
Episode 208 - What's So Special about the Christmas Special?
Episode 207 - Writer's Block and How to Fix It
Episode 206 - We Love Lisa
Episode 205 - Lisa Gets An A
Episode 204 - The Complete Comedy Writer Writes Again
Episode 203 - He Knows His Onions
Episode 202 - Speak Up!
Episode 201 - Sketchwriting Gems From Gemma
Episode 200 - How Many!?
Episode 199 - Sketch Shows, Scotsmen And Sadowitz
Episode 198 - What Is Comedy Drama?
Episode 197 - Yes We Cannes with Danny and Tim
Episode 196 - Should You Write An Audience Sitcom?
Episode 195 - Is There Life After Mars?
Episode 194 - Is There Life After EastEnders?
Episode 193 - Tips For Topical Comedy Writers
Episode 192 - How To Add Zing Your Dialogue
Episode 191 - Fergus Craig
Episode 190 - The Secret Trick of Success
Episode 189 - Makes Peak Perfect
Episode 188 - And The Winner Is...
Episode 187 - Peak Practice...
Episode 186 - Mockumentaries and Meanies
Episode 185 - Georgia Pritchett On Success, Succession and The Shrink Next Door
Episode 184 - Things We Wish We'd Known At The Start Of Our Careers
Episode 183 - The Secrets Of Comedy Writing Success
Episode 182 - Want To Do Better In 2022?
Episode 181 - Any Questions?
Episode 180 - The Last Ten Pages
Episode 179 - What Do We Want? When Do We Want It?
Episode 178 - Where In The World Is My Sitcom?
Episode 177 - Hat Trick Sitcom Script Competition
Episode 176 - The Comedians' Comedian Comedian Speaks
Episode 175 - Rules Of Life - And Comedy Writing
Episode 174 - Can You Teach Comedy Writing - Yes You Can!
Episode 173 - Knowing Me, Knowing You
Episode 172 - Listen To The Man Who Knows Everything About Sitcom
Episode 171 - Writing Is Rewriting Is Rewriting Is Rewriting Is
Episode 170 - Tell Don't Show
Episode 169 - Plenty of Pozzitives
Episode 168 - James Has Written A Book, And Why Comedy Writing Is Child's Play
Episode 167 - Dave Has Made A Novel, James Is Telling A Story
Episode 166 - Revenge of the Two Minute Movie
Episode 165 - He Did It Himself
Episode 164 - Where Do You Start?
Episode 163 - The State of Things
Episode 162 - Fun With Father Ted - Lissa Evans
Episode 161 - Funny Business
Episode 160 - We've Scene The Results
Episode 159 - The Lost Voice Guy Tells All
Episode 158 - Why Tuesdays Are Funny, And Jessica Too
Episode 157 - Rejection And Waste And Other Jolly News
Episode 156 - 2021 Vision
Episode 155 - So That Was 2020
Episode 154 - Writersroom Changes and Let's Do It Some More
Episode 153 - The Real Victoria Wood
Episode 152 - Making A Scene Of It Part 2
Episode 151 - Making A Scene Of It
Episode 150 - Guy Jenkin and Andy Hamilton
Episode 149 - The Future Is Now
Episode 148 - Cancel Your Hero
Episode 147 - Jenny Eclair
Episode 146 - Rufus Jones has something to write Home about (Part 2)
Episode 145 - Rufus Jones on the road to Home (Part 1)
Episode 144 - The Office: How It All Began, with Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto (Part 2)
Episode 143 - Gracious Me! It's Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto (Part 1)
Episode 142 - How Do You Write About Race?
Episode 141 - Producing Your Own Media
Episode 140 - Galton, Simpson and Pixar Returns
Episode 139 - Housebound Guest
Episode 138 - Pull Apart, Simplify, Do Better Next Time
Episode 137 - A Winning Writer Speaks
Episode 136 - Chortle Book Festival
Episode 135 - Make Your Script Stand Out
Episode 134 - Sitcom Scripts Q&A
Episode 133 - Where Did We Go Right?
Episode 132 - Story Is Character
Episode 131 - Writing Comedy Is Hard!
Episode 130 - Milton Jones
Episode 129 - Old And New
Episode 128 - What's The Difference?
Episode 127 - How To Plot Your Sitcom
Episode 126 - Honing Your First Ten Pages
Episode 125 - Creating Comedy Characters
Episode 124 - What's Your Sit?
Episode 123 - Building A Writing Career
Episode 122 - Cole Moreton: My Life with The Krays & Jeffrey Archer
Episode 121 - Rules of Sitcom
Episode 120 - What We Did On Our Holidays
Episode 119 - Vomit Drafts, Joke Rates and Gavin and Stacey
Episode 118 - Anna Nicholson: Woman Of The Year?
Episode 117 - Time Management
Episode 116 - Improv and Dialogue
Episode 115 - Soup To Nuts
Episode 114 - Stand Up For Your Writes
Episode 113 - Characters In Search Of A Plot
Episode 112 - Gareth Edwards
Episode 111 - Polishing Your Script
Episode 110 - Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais
Episode 109 - Book Writing
Episode 108 - Soft Border Patrol
Episode 107 - Sitcom News and Questions
Episode 106 - Jonathan Coe
Episode 105 - Paul Mayhew-Archer
Episode 104 - The Sacred Art of Joking
Episode 103 - Moose Allain
Episode 102 - Insert Name Here
Episode 101 - What Did We Learn In 2018?
Episode 100!
Episode 99 - Tiernan Douieb
Episode 98 - Neil Forsyth
Episode 97 - The Complete Comedy Writer
Episode 96 - Al Murray (Part 2)
Episode 95 - Al Murray (Part 1)
Episode 94 - Zapped
Episode 93 - Julie Bower
Episode 92 - Tim Telling
Episode 91 - Steven Moffat (Part 2)
Episode 90 - Steven Moffat (Part 1)
Episode 89 - DIY Comedy
Episode 88 - Geoffrey McGivern
Episode 87 - Is Bake Off A Sitcom?
Episode 86 - Saskia Schuster
Episode 85 - Jonathan Ames
Episode 84 - Hayley McKenzie
Episode 83 - Lucien Young
Episode 82 - Laurence Howarth
Episode 81 - Dave Cohen Craft of Comedy Keynote Address
Episode 80 - Jack Docherty
Episode 79 - Paul Merton (Part 2)
Episode 78 - Paul Merton (Part 1)
Episode 77 - John Finnemore (Part 2)
Episode 76 - John Finnemore (Part 1)
Episode 75 - Words For Window
Episode 74 - Craft Of Comedy Cometh
Episode 73 - Writing Windows and Open Doors
Episode 72 - Toby Davies (Part 2)
Episode 71 - Toby Davies (Part 1)
Episode 70 - Inside Newsjack (Part 2)
Episode 69 - Inside Newsjack (Part 1)
Episode 68 - How Many Is Too Many?
Episode 67 - Writers' Guild Comedy Awards
Episode 66 - Graham Linehan (Part 2)
Episode 65 - Graham Linehan (Part 1)
Episode 64 - The Nine Types Of Funny
Episode 63 - What Sort Of Writer Are You?
Episode 62 - Back To Basics
Episode 61 - Breaking In
Episode 60 - Pete Sinclair
Episode 59 - Notes on Notes
Episode 58 - Ben Elton, Newsjack, Patreon and more
Episode 57 - In Praise Of Ever Decreasing Circles
Episode 56 - Jason Hazeley
Episode 55 - Fringe Special
Episode 54 - Ask Us Anything
Episode 53 - Barry Cryer (Part 2)
Episode 52 - Barry Cryer (Part 1)
Episode 51 - Working With Producers
Episode 50 - Writers' Guild of Great Britain: Situation Critical?
Episode 49 - Tom Edge
Episode 48 - Paul Kerensa
Episode 47 - Eric Chappell (Part 2)
Episode 46 - Eric Chappell (Part 1)
Episode 45 - Sketches
Episode 44 - Challenges and Questions
Episode 43 - John Lloyd (Part 2)
Episode 42 - John Lloyd
Episode 41 - Finding the Right Producer
Episode 40 - Radio Highlights of 2016
Episode 39 - Best TV Sitcoms of 2016
Episode 38 - Series Arcs & Fourth Walls
Episode 37 - It's All A Plot
Episode 36 - Money
Episode 35 - Off the Bus, You Loser
Episode 34 - Hell No! That's My Show
Episode 33 - Idiots
Episode 32 - Sketches
Episode 31 - The Podcast That Wasn't
Episode 30 - Interview with Andrew Ellard (Part 2)
Episode 29 - Interview with Andrew Ellard (Part 1)
Episode 28 - Interview with Ben Ward
Episode 27 - First Ten Pages
Episode 26 - Notes
Episode 25 - Edinburgh
Episode 24 - Interview with Gill Isles
Episode 23 - Interview with Sioned Wiliam
Episode 22 - Interview with Ian Martin
Episode 21 - Star Vehicles and Invisible Characters
Episode 20 - Interview with Mark Evans
Episode 19 - Welcome To Our World
Episode 18 - Bill Knows Best
Episode 17 - Writing Topical Comedy
Episode 16 - Doing It Yourself!
Episode 15 - The Shape of Sits to Com
Episode 14 - Sitcom Highlights of 2015
Episode 13 - Jokes
Episode 12 - Writing for Radio
Episode 11 - The Rise of the Writer-Performer
Episode 10 - Secondary Characters
Episode 9 - Ensemble Sitcoms
Episode 8 - The First Ten Pages
Episode 7 - Finding the Right Stories
Episode 6 - Kevin Cecil and Andy Riley (Part 2)
Episode 5 - Kevin Cecil and Andy Riley (Part 1)
Episode 4 - Writing Pilots
Episode 3 - Odd Couples
Episode 2 - Larger Than Life