HeyJaredThe Fruit Salad Therapy Tapes
A weekly creative newsletter. The Tapes function as an interactive notebook/sketchpad exploring comedy, art, creativity, making stuff, etc.
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The Decline Of TV Comedy And The Rise Of Main Character Syndrome (opens the original)
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This Sopranos meme did the rounds on a lot of comedy writing/directing Whatsapp threads a couple of weeks ago, as Channel 4 announced that they would be combining their comedy and drama departments as part of a drive to cut 25% of their workforce:<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JV0h!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ebf0663-d9d2-4cd1-b0ae-7525b143e7ea_700
Tape 219: Eggbox Lineup Part 1! (opens the original)
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I’ve mentioned it briefly here before, but as we ramp up further into full promo mode, this week I’m going to talk a bit more about the lineup for our next Eggbox show, which returns to the Pleasance in Islington on the 10th of November! Now, if you are either:A. A dyed-in-the-wool Eggbox fan who comes to every show regardless of what’s on because you love film/comedy/new writing/me/Miranda/the architecture of the Pleasance main house regardless of what is happening in it (delete as appropriate)
Tape 218: Finding The Central Metaphor (opens the original)
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I decided that I wanted to write a newsletter about directing three comedy shows for this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, and what I learned from it, and what I’d like to do going forwards with that kind of work, but I wasn’t really sure how to approach it and every time I sat down to try and do it I cringed so hard that I turned inside-out. Then I saw a Looney Tunes movie that made me cry my head off, and now I know what I want to say about directing Fringe comedy shows.Subscribe nowSo first up, why d
Tape 217: An Edinburgh Fringe Debrief (opens the original)
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Well I’ve completed another Edinburgh Fringe, this time from the enviable position of only needing to be there for ten days. So I thought I’d better do some sort of comprehensive debrief from it before we all drown in the deluge of even more comprehensive Fringe debriefs at the end of the month from people who have actually earned the right to do them by dragging themselves through all four weeks. So, here we go, here’s what I did, what I saw, what I learned, and so on. May it bring succour to t
Tape 216: Ten Rules For A Happy Edinburgh Fringe (opens the original)
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This was written in haste in a cafe on Monday afternoon before the Fringe kicks off. A snatched moment of productivity in the calm before the storm. But I do hope it might be useful for a few people bringing a show to the Fringe - their first, their third, their twelfth - who at any point find themselves succumbing to the festival’s tendency to drive us all completely insane.Subscribe nowThis year I find myself in the enviable position of being up at the Edinburgh Fringe and feeling basically ze
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