New Website for Comedy Writers and Performers

Aspiring comedy writers and performers might like to check out a brand new website from the BBC. Comedy Soup lets users create a portfolio on the site to which they can link their own comedy material, including videos, animations, audio and images.

You can also include information about yourself on your profile page. This could include links to sample comedy scripts you have written, though as far as I can tell you will have to arrange hosting for these elsewhere on the web. Comedy Soup isn't really set up as a scripts archive.

Comedy Soup is probably going to be of most interest to comedy writers who also perform their own work, and to writers who have the skills to create videos, animations and so on. Even if that doesn't apply to you, however, don't be put off. If all else fails you could simply read out your work and record it as an audio file, then upload it to your portfolio page (full instructions are on the site). Once it's there, your work will be viewed (or heard) by talent-spotters, comedy professionals and fans. If comedy is your thing, Comedy Soup could provide a world-wide shop window for your talents.