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Supporting new comedy writers in the UK. For information on how to enter the competition visit our website davidnobbsmemorialtrust.org.uk
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David Nobbs comedy writing competition opens for a ninth year
David Nobbs comedy writing competition opens for a ninth year
Winner receives £1,000
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February 2, 2026 at 10:13 AM
David Nobbs comedy writing competition opens for a ninth year
Don’t forget you have until 6th March if you want to enter this year’s New Comedy Writing competition! Find out more at davidnobbsmemorialtrust.org.uk
February 4, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Don’t forget you have until 6th March if you want to enter this year’s New Comedy Writing competition! Find out more at davidnobbsmemorialtrust.org.uk
Feeling those winter blues? Comedy has some serious health benefits (via @chortle)
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How comedy can seriously boost your health : Correspondents 2023 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide
How comedy can seriously boost your health - One expert explains the benefits of laughter
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February 3, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Feeling those winter blues? Comedy has some serious health benefits (via @chortle)
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Good news for all aspiring comedy writers. Please share - and enter the competition, if you can!
Our annual New Comedy Writing competition is back, with three fantastic judges! Find out how to enter to be in with a chance of a cash prize and to have your work read by Holly Walsh, Andy Hamilton and Lucy Lumsden at davidnobbsmemorialtrust.org.uk
February 2, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Good news for all aspiring comedy writers. Please share - and enter the competition, if you can!
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I was shortlisted for this early in my career and it was such a lovely confidence boost. New writers - go for it!
Our annual New Comedy Writing competition is back, with three fantastic judges! Find out how to enter to be in with a chance of a cash prize and to have your work read by Holly Walsh, Andy Hamilton and Lucy Lumsden at davidnobbsmemorialtrust.org.uk
February 2, 2026 at 3:36 PM
I was shortlisted for this early in my career and it was such a lovely confidence boost. New writers - go for it!
Our annual New Comedy Writing competition is back, with three fantastic judges! Find out how to enter to be in with a chance of a cash prize and to have your work read by Holly Walsh, Andy Hamilton and Lucy Lumsden at davidnobbsmemorialtrust.org.uk
February 2, 2026 at 9:06 AM
Our annual New Comedy Writing competition is back, with three fantastic judges! Find out how to enter to be in with a chance of a cash prize and to have your work read by Holly Walsh, Andy Hamilton and Lucy Lumsden at davidnobbsmemorialtrust.org.uk
If you have a broadcast credit and a comedy script you’re working on then keep an eye out for this year’s competition launching soon…
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January 12, 2026 at 1:41 PM
If you have a broadcast credit and a comedy script you’re working on then keep an eye out for this year’s competition launching soon…
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"The wallpaper was busier maybe, the world was browner, but essentially it was the same world, where telephones were answered with a string of digits and time flowed begrudgingly forwards like gravy."
I wrote about my favourite sitcom of all time.
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I wrote about my favourite sitcom of all time.
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October 2, 2025 at 8:06 AM
"The wallpaper was busier maybe, the world was browner, but essentially it was the same world, where telephones were answered with a string of digits and time flowed begrudgingly forwards like gravy."
I wrote about my favourite sitcom of all time.
madeleinebrettingham.substack.com/p/that-is-wh...
I wrote about my favourite sitcom of all time.
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Meet this year’s DNMT New Comedy Writing winners! Matthew Mclane, Jas Bahia and Tom Little, congratulations!
July 28, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Meet this year’s DNMT New Comedy Writing winners! Matthew Mclane, Jas Bahia and Tom Little, congratulations!
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We are delighted to announce this year's DNMT New Comedy Writing winner and runners up! Congratulations to Matthew Mclane, Tom Little and Jaskaran Bahia. Thanks to all the readers, judges and industry who lend their support. See you next year! 🎉
July 24, 2025 at 8:03 AM
We are delighted to announce this year's DNMT New Comedy Writing winner and runners up! Congratulations to Matthew Mclane, Tom Little and Jaskaran Bahia. Thanks to all the readers, judges and industry who lend their support. See you next year! 🎉
We are delighted to announce this year's DNMT New Comedy Writing winner and runners up! Congratulations to Matthew Mclane, Tom Little and Jaskaran Bahia. Thanks to all the readers, judges and industry who lend their support. See you next year! 🎉
July 24, 2025 at 8:03 AM
We are delighted to announce this year's DNMT New Comedy Writing winner and runners up! Congratulations to Matthew Mclane, Tom Little and Jaskaran Bahia. Thanks to all the readers, judges and industry who lend their support. See you next year! 🎉
If you can help please get in touch!
June 20, 2025 at 7:49 AM
If you can help please get in touch!
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this is v nice and exciting. congrats to my fellow shortlisteds
We are delighted to announce this year's DNMT New Comedy Writing shortlist. Congratulations to:
Tom Little
Jaskaran Bahia
Lotte Allan
James Boughen
Matthew Mclane
The winner will be revealed in July...
Tom Little
Jaskaran Bahia
Lotte Allan
James Boughen
Matthew Mclane
The winner will be revealed in July...
June 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
this is v nice and exciting. congrats to my fellow shortlisteds
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Here’s the shortlist of fantastic comedy writers! Many congratulations to them, and well done to all who entered! V high standard of comedy writing in the U.K.
We are delighted to announce this year's DNMT New Comedy Writing shortlist. Congratulations to:
Tom Little
Jaskaran Bahia
Lotte Allan
James Boughen
Matthew Mclane
The winner will be revealed in July...
Tom Little
Jaskaran Bahia
Lotte Allan
James Boughen
Matthew Mclane
The winner will be revealed in July...
June 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Here’s the shortlist of fantastic comedy writers! Many congratulations to them, and well done to all who entered! V high standard of comedy writing in the U.K.
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Hearty congratulations to all five.
We are delighted to announce this year's DNMT New Comedy Writing shortlist. Congratulations to:
Tom Little
Jaskaran Bahia
Lotte Allan
James Boughen
Matthew Mclane
The winner will be revealed in July...
Tom Little
Jaskaran Bahia
Lotte Allan
James Boughen
Matthew Mclane
The winner will be revealed in July...
June 19, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Hearty congratulations to all five.
We are delighted to announce this year's DNMT New Comedy Writing shortlist. Congratulations to:
Tom Little
Jaskaran Bahia
Lotte Allan
James Boughen
Matthew Mclane
The winner will be revealed in July...
Tom Little
Jaskaran Bahia
Lotte Allan
James Boughen
Matthew Mclane
The winner will be revealed in July...
June 19, 2025 at 9:00 AM
We are delighted to announce this year's DNMT New Comedy Writing shortlist. Congratulations to:
Tom Little
Jaskaran Bahia
Lotte Allan
James Boughen
Matthew Mclane
The winner will be revealed in July...
Tom Little
Jaskaran Bahia
Lotte Allan
James Boughen
Matthew Mclane
The winner will be revealed in July...
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Just a gentle reminder that the @writersguildgb.bsky.social are always there to support writers who think they are being taken advantage of.
May 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Just a gentle reminder that the @writersguildgb.bsky.social are always there to support writers who think they are being taken advantage of.
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The first name is MINE. A pleasant surprise to make the longlist.
3rd time in 4 years. The moral here is never give up. Or give up immediately. One of the two.
3rd time in 4 years. The moral here is never give up. Or give up immediately. One of the two.
Congrats to this year’s DNMT New Comedy Writing longlist: Tom Worsley, Mary Flanigan, Matthew Mclane, Nick Chen, Chris Dann, Scott Payne, Caroline Mabey, Simon Warne, Lotte Allan, Alan Connor, Tom Little, Stephen Keyworth, Jaskaran Bahia, Tom Baker, Freya Parker, James Boughen, Jack & Anna Harris!
May 7, 2025 at 10:17 AM
The first name is MINE. A pleasant surprise to make the longlist.
3rd time in 4 years. The moral here is never give up. Or give up immediately. One of the two.
3rd time in 4 years. The moral here is never give up. Or give up immediately. One of the two.
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Congratulations to all the longlisted writers!
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[image alt text: Reggie Perrin (Leonard Rossiter), reading papers across the desk from his secretary Joan (Sue Nicholls). It's all very 70s-looking]
Congrats to this year’s DNMT New Comedy Writing longlist: Tom Worsley, Mary Flanigan, Matthew Mclane, Nick Chen, Chris Dann, Scott Payne, Caroline Mabey, Simon Warne, Lotte Allan, Alan Connor, Tom Little, Stephen Keyworth, Jaskaran Bahia, Tom Baker, Freya Parker, James Boughen, Jack & Anna Harris!
May 7, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Congratulations to all the longlisted writers!
[image alt text: Reggie Perrin (Leonard Rossiter), reading papers across the desk from his secretary Joan (Sue Nicholls). It's all very 70s-looking]
[image alt text: Reggie Perrin (Leonard Rossiter), reading papers across the desk from his secretary Joan (Sue Nicholls). It's all very 70s-looking]
Congrats to this year’s DNMT New Comedy Writing longlist: Tom Worsley, Mary Flanigan, Matthew Mclane, Nick Chen, Chris Dann, Scott Payne, Caroline Mabey, Simon Warne, Lotte Allan, Alan Connor, Tom Little, Stephen Keyworth, Jaskaran Bahia, Tom Baker, Freya Parker, James Boughen, Jack & Anna Harris!
May 7, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Congrats to this year’s DNMT New Comedy Writing longlist: Tom Worsley, Mary Flanigan, Matthew Mclane, Nick Chen, Chris Dann, Scott Payne, Caroline Mabey, Simon Warne, Lotte Allan, Alan Connor, Tom Little, Stephen Keyworth, Jaskaran Bahia, Tom Baker, Freya Parker, James Boughen, Jack & Anna Harris!
Look out for some exciting news today…
May 7, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Look out for some exciting news today…
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Just wanted to say if this is you, at any stage of your career, there is no shame in it. I needed work last year and got a job working nights in a supermarket because I needed the money and I met some wonderful people, had fun and eavesdropped on customers and it helped get me out of the house.
“Senior television producers with decades of experience are working as high street shelf-stackers, car park attendants and in pubs, as a prolonged crisis continues to sweep through the TV world.”
Senior TV producers take shelf-stacking jobs as UK industry remains in crisis
Experienced figures doing entry-level roles amid prolonged work drought since Covid and rise of online content
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March 8, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Just wanted to say if this is you, at any stage of your career, there is no shame in it. I needed work last year and got a job working nights in a supermarket because I needed the money and I met some wonderful people, had fun and eavesdropped on customers and it helped get me out of the house.
If you meet this criteria then do consider applying!
We are excited to announce a Bursary for ten East Midlands-based working class and/or low-income playwrights to attend the @writingeastmidlands.com Writers' Conference 2025. Deadline 26th March 5pm, with full information on how to apply on our website: www.scripteastmids.co.uk
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March 7, 2025 at 9:59 AM
If you meet this criteria then do consider applying!
This year's DNMT New Comedy Writing Competition is now closed for entries. Thanks to all who submitted and good luck!
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March 4, 2025 at 8:57 AM
This year's DNMT New Comedy Writing Competition is now closed for entries. Thanks to all who submitted and good luck!
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Deadline is TONIGHT!
You have until 23:59 tomorrow to enter your script for this year’s DNMT New Comedy Writing competition! Find out more at davidnobbsmemorialtrust.org.uk
March 3, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Deadline is TONIGHT!