WMD Comedy is Back. In a Big Way!

In case anybody has missed it on twitter, or facebook, or youtube. We are back in the saddle producing online content again, and there's a lot of it! A small part of me likes to think that maybe there's one person out there who only reads the blog and doesn't experience any of our other stuff, like maybe they live in a log cabin and have the blog printed off and delivered to them by a young messenger boy called Tim-Tim. So this post is for you log burning cabin dwellers, boy, have we got a lot to catch up on.

I loved that post about Arrested Development guys. No idea what that is. But I loved it

The last time we posted on this blog, we had just started our run of the Edinburgh fringe. We had told ourselves that we could keep a running diary at Edinburgh and post every day with some of our exploits and things we learned from the show and the festival. All in all, we managed about 4 posts before abandoning it completely on the 6th day. But the festival was a lot of fun, we were wholly unprepared for it in every possible sense, and looking back now, we could have gone in a lot stronger; but it's always a learning process and it at least helped us to cement ourselves as a group that makes content together.

Since then, we ummed and ahhhed about how to move forwards, eventually we decided to start producing online sketches as we all lived in very different areas of the country. We produced a number of solo sketches intermittently for a couple of years which can be found in the dark recesses of our oldest videos on our wmd comedy youtube page. Weirdly, if you go straight to the url of youtube.com/wmd it just takes you to a user who doesn't produce any content, but has helpfully collected many many playlists of partial nudity on youtube. Most of which have obviously been deleted.

We've got some really 'stiff' competition! (Please send your high fives by email)

In fact, many of our youtube videos, don't have a lot of views, this is because we have found that we are able to reach a wider audience and collect more views by posting our videos on facebook. It seems that the effort it takes to follow a link off facebook and on to youtube is just too much to bear for many of our casual followers. There's something in my head that tells me a youtube view is somehow more valuable than a facebook view, but I don't know, we haven't worked out the best delivery system yet. There's a lot we've not worked out.

Oh, back to the time-line! So after a few years of some sketches here and there. I (Tom) moved back up north to Manchester, and started regularly meeting up with Ben (lives in York) to start producing some sketches on a regular basis. We set ourselves an initial target of just releasing a sketch every Friday, and seeing how long we could keep it up for/if we enjoyed it and wanted to carry on at all. Well, that was back in November and setting that strict target was one of the best decisions we ever made, because now nearly 6 months later, richer or poorer, better or worse, we still produce something every week. Along the way we figure out what does and doesn't work, make a bunch of mistakes and constantly learn from our own work whilst we develop a more signature style. Plus we constantly add to a rapidly growing portfolio of work which we can look back on with some pride, even just for sheer quantity alone.

"Is this video funny?"............."At least it exists."   ~   A conversation we have often

I remember saying to Ben when we first decided on a weekly output, that the main thing was just to settle into a routine, get used to working together again and consistently release content so that we can slowly develop our skills. We could worry about quality later, once we had all that sorted. But naturally, the quality has started to slowly improve. Our writing, performance and timing is always getting stronger as well as the production quality of what we are filming. Starting as comedians and writers, we now have felt ourselves forced into being genuine film makers; we probably spend 80% of our time trying to figure out proper lighting, sound and focus, rather than the "haha"s.

So if you're still living in the cabin, get a vhs player and have Tim-Tim get onto our facebook and download some videos for you (then somehow put them onto tapes). There'll always be more to keep you entertained, as I say, we produce something every Friday. Don't miss out! WMD Comedy on Facebook