Good point.
I guess the internet is a double edged sword. Whilst it's fantastic people like Ben Wheatley have been able to found a career from it, the downside is it has now become an incredibly saturated market. A market where it isn't about whether your work is 'good' or how hard you've worked on it, it is literally about appealing to enough people. Which is a shame, because of that people like SGB just won't get the success they deserve.
I'm also part of the problem in that sense being that I display my shite on the 'net too.
Gone are the days when a TV boss will take a risk on an act they've seen on stage at some murky venue. It is now trial by popularity.
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It's actually even
weirder than that. A few years ago the BBC asked me to pitch ideas to them for short comedy things they could put on their website. Guy said SGB would be perfect, but the problem was it already had a following and they wanted completely new stuff.
And then you pitch new stuff and they go "Hmmm, but how can we be sure people will like it?"
I'm just happy YouTube is there so it's not necessary to jump through hoops of flaming bullshit.
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