A Comedy of Gamers! (Blog 179)

Since last December, I have been working with a team of writers, coming up with ideas for the second series of the Youtube sitcom, ‘A Comedy of Gamers’. I haven’t contributed to the first series and if you ever watch it, (it should be coming out soon) that will come as no surprise - no one explodes in it, goes mad or both. Even though I should end up at least partially writing later scripts, sadly I don’t have the authority to do whatever I want with them, either. Sorry, but it has indirectly been made clear - NO explosions or anything like that. Partly because of the budget and mostly because the program is supposed to be realistic (ish). Do I have the skills to make a lethal, explosive pandemic realistic? I think so, I think I did even but crucially, no one else does. Still though, many characters in the sitcom are immature, and silliness is my specialty. Consequently, writing for such characters does sound interesting.

Unsurprisingly, I’m not allowed to give any storylines away. When I asked my boss permission to write this blog, he never said any of the contributor’s work was top secret, but I really hope it is. How cool would that be? Yes, it would be strange if future scripts were as closely guarded as nuclear weapon plans, but it would give me an added sense of purpose and pride. It would probably go to my head. I’d probably walk around with sunglasses in the Winter and carry an ultra-secure briefcase with me everywhere. Even when shopping or better yet, swimming or bungee jumping. As I said, immaturity is my speciality. And it should be too, considering how much I write about people exploding. (Yes, explosions again! Practice makes perfect). Having said all that, I doubt anything I’ve ever done is even normal level secret, but who knows… maybe classified?? Does that justify sunglasses in the Summer at least? I think so. Anywho, here’s a link to the sitcom page…

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1NXj4nNfgAfRHMbsMPNLxQ

If you watch the trailer, you may notice that the music is very professional. Having studied music at university, I’m very jealous. Put simply, the composer is much better than me. I thought I could improve my own music by going ‘booooo’ over it, but we both know that didn’t work. If anything it made it worse but I like to think of it as a unique bridge between electronica and the avant-garde. When you put it like that, it kind of sounds impressive. Much of my music is in strange time signatures, too. Does that ever get mentioned? Nope, it’s always straight to the vocals, isn’t it? Ok, I think that’s it from me, for now. As I said, I have to be careful as I could end up disclosing classified (?) information. Then I’d go to comedy jail where none of the inmates blog or even laugh. Forever. Bye! :D