YOU HAVE ONE JOB THIS WEEKEND

If you weren’t able to make it down to our showcase at @jw3london to see the brilliant work of writers Sarah Campbell & Luna Al Kaisy performed by some incredible talent, here is a little snippet!! Pls keep supporting us & spreading the word about @femalepilotclub ✊✌️

WE GOT THE WIN ON CHILD BENEFIT!
Chancellor tipped me off before budget, said this was due in large to MSE/my shows campaigning all based on all those of your who messaged me to say it was the key thing to put to him

So
1) From this April threshold which hasn't moved since 2013…

Have you got your tickets yet?! Come & join us at the showcase on 26th March @jw3london to see the fabulous & funny work of comedy writers Sarah Campbell & Luna Al kaisy 🥳 A big thank you to our event sponsors Yellow Door Productions & Imagine Talent 🙏 jw3.org.uk/whats-on/femal…

This whole year is going to be a cycle of coded “northerners are racist” headlines followed by “so, how racist ARE northerners?” discussions, mostly (all?) written and lovingly mulled over in London newsrooms

“It’s a lot harder for working class comics to make it”

Phil ellis on the class divide in comedy

I wrote a script and it barely included any trauma! Psyched for the showcase ✨🌈🥂

The industry- radio, telly, film- is moving backwards in terms of working class representation. Samantha Morton’s a powerhouse and we’ll see decision makers praise her tonight but there’s a little Samantha Morton in care right now they’d never dream of hiring. That’s the real tea

An article about TV comedy - Only men mentioned, quoted and interviewed, only male written and led comedies highlighted. That’s because it still so massively unequal.
We won’t get the next Caroline Ahern/wood/ French and Saunders if it’s not 50/50
theguardian.com/culture/2024/f…

'No pension, no career, no future': Grim reality behind the scenes of British TV and film industry

Read more 🔗

trib.al/JVBvnyc

The look on Tracy Chapman's face when the crowd realizes its her

I wrote about the soul-sucking labor of self-promotion and 'audience building' that basically every artist/journalist/creative worker has to do now ... unless they are very lucky vox.com/culture/2024/2…

The slave owners received compensation at that time, the slaves themselves receive nothing.
Time to right this wrong 🇲🇺

Let us not forget that part of the catalyst for abolition was the Revolution in #Haiti 🇭🇹

The indentured labourers 🇮🇳 that came after were equally oppressed

Gay’s the Word is 45 today! Happy Birthday to us!

Gay’s the Word is celebrating our 45th Anniversary & announcing our 1 day-only online FLASHSALE

All day today, Jan 17th, everything on gaystheword.co.uk - is 17% OFF. To get your discount enter the promo code: Icebreakers

The cash-builder challenges are vital to the Traitors success as a show. It's built in double-screening time so you can text about it!! Radical! New! Nobel shit!

Producers / broadcasters: please, I am begging you, understand that only writers from the most priveleged backgrounds will be able to keep generating sample scripts. (1/4)

As is festive tradition, today I’ll be wearing a black polo and a trench coat, knocking on people’s doors and saying “PARTING GIFT, WILL” 😊😊😊