Maybe online writers' rooms would have been better for me because I was absolutely USELESS in the in-person ones. They terrified me. I basically clammed up, sat there saying not a word, then travelled home on the train back to the Midlands cringing with embarrassment. Ugh.
They have the advantage of making everyone stiff-limbed and shifty-looking so it sort of levels the playing field! I’m sure you were great. They’re strange environments to be thrown into.
I think it was Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong who had a plastic toilet seat they'd stick over each other's head, slowly closing the lid until one of them came up with a punchline for Peep Show. That's the kind of pressure that'd cause me to melt down like a Soviet RBMK reactor core.
Haha I can see the attraction of mainlining the humiliation rather than drip-feeding it. Better an honest hazing than a subtle neg! You probably have to be mates already though.
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Nevertheless I’m off to buy a toilet seat…