N7- giving Steven Moffat some compe
Steven Moffat
>Perhaps the time has finally come to observe that Joking Apart
is itself
>a bit off a rip-off of "Seinfeld" and Alan Ayckbourne's farces.
>
>Paul
Joking Apart was first written and produced in 1990. It was
shown as a one-off in '91, then a series followed in early '93.
Seinfeld wasn't shown here until some time after this. I don't
know when it first appeared in the States but since my one and
only visit there was in mid '93 there's no way I could've seen
Seinfeld prior to writing the first episode of Joking Apart in
early '90. The stand-up device appearing in both (and better used
in Seinfeld than in JA, I think) is a coincidence I would've
avoided had I had the chance.
Plagiarism is a pretty serious accusation for a writer. Get a
good lawyer if you feel like doing it again.
Steven Moffat (more Cooney than Aykbourne, I think)
Rich Johnston
Yeah, but The Nick Revell Show was late eighties wasn't it?
Oh hang on... I may be getting mixed up with the Million Pound Radio
Show.....
Hmmmm...
Rich Johnston.
New email address, new job, same old clothes.