“In that moment what would you say? Forget the joke. What would you say?” – Garry Shandling. When it comes to comedy screenwriting, sometimes (but not all the time by any means) story can take a backseat to spectacle or humor. Whether or not it should I think comes down to personal taste. So I …
Category: Filmmaking
Jun 01
The Children’s Entertainer
Between 2004 and 2005, I worked as a children’s entertainer. A friend of a friend was working for a company, mostly performing magic for kids. I got recommended to try out for the company. I auditioned, got in, and was invited to do an all-day training session. Halfway through, they announced that one of their …
Jun 01
Please Stop Trying To Kill Me, Dad: Origin
In September 2001, I watched a one-woman show by London-based performer/theatremaker Peta Lily. The stand-up theatre show, Topless, was about ‘life and death and love and hate and sex and sticking plaster and breasts.’ It was fantastic, very funny. I thought to myself, “this! This is the sort of work I want to be doing. …
Jun 01
The Return…
This post marks my return to blogging… again. This blog seems to have been about me leaving and then coming back. Made a couple of cosmetic changes here and there over the years. I stopped posting because a) life, and b) I didn’t know what I wanted to do with this blog as it no …
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Jason Peck, Filmmaker