Advice and inspiration

So you're keen and interested but want to find out more?

Here's some people who know a thing or two about comedy and what it takes to make an audience laugh.

Gina Yashere tells us more about Show Me the Funny and gives a glimpse of the wonderful world of radio comedy.

From the likes of Dead Ringers, Little Britain and Goodness Gracious Me, they were all born on the radio airwaves before being adopted by television.
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As the Head of Radio Entertainment, Paul Schlesinger is responsible for all in-house comedy and entertainment programmes on BBC national radio, from established favourites such as Just A Minute to developing the talents of unfledged performers and writers.
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Winners of the Writers Guild Award in 2004, Colin and Fergus broke into BBC radio with their own BBC 7 series.

Their show, 'Colin and Fergus's Digi-Radio', was BBC 7's very first new comedy commission.
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