NewsJack Episode 3 Submission

So I attended the recording. They just let people in all at once as I think they had low audience numbers. We managed to get front row seats and it wasn’t long before the show began.

Nish did a brilliant opening monologue and the show got off to a strong start.

And then it happened. One of the cast said the following as part of breaking news.

Thats it! that was my joke!

Sure, I wrote it slightly differently and offered it as a ViewsJack but its definitely mine

I sharply jabbed my friend in the ribs saying, “Thats my joke! Thats my joke!” and I really had a smile 10 miles wide from that point on. Nothing else of mine was performed and I left the show beaming that they had actually performed one of mine.

There was still one thing to come. Although it had been performed I know that they still need to include it in the show. It got a good laugh (and that was a REAL laugh, not something dubbed on later) so I was in with a chance. I know that IF your joke makes the script but isn’t broadcast in the show they email you around 5.30-7pm on the Thursday night so I had a few days wait for that email. But there was now a chance, however slim, that I could actually be broadcast and earn the massive £20 from the BBC. I am more interested in getting writers credits than the money but either way. I’m guaranteed at least a ‘so close, yet so far email’. At 4pm I see a tweet saying the show has been finalised and the BBC release a clip of a sketch as a teaser.

Thursday night comes and by 7pm I’ve had no email. I head out for dinner and we discuss the joke and my future of writing comedy. As the night gets on I still have no email. I wait until 10pm and tune into the show. The parts have been edited around from the recording but 30 minutes later and my joke isn’t there. I listen right to the end and I hear Nish read out that show’s writers and my name definitely isn’t in it.

I KNOW is was performed as I was there. Its possible someone else sent in a similar joke but it wasn’t a huge news story so I doubt someone else wrote it. But I didn’t get the email from the two producers that I’d received previously.

I went to bed a bit grumpy. I’ve got another NewsJack recording to go to but I’m now undecided whether I will attend. I’m not sure I can cope with this rollercoaster of emotions again!

For all you fans…. SOMEONE uploaded a recording of the NewsJack live show and I’ve cut out the joke and made it available for you here.