“How To Produce Comedy Bronze” by Jon Plowman (2018)

“Before I start this is really just to give you, the reader, a bit of background about the whens and whats and wheres of me, the writer.”

If you know comedy well, you at least know the name Jon Plowman. He’s the rarest of things in television – a background chap who has become famous himself. There aren’t many, as most of the limelight goes to the actors and presenters, but behind their shiny façade are dozens of hardworking directors, writers, camera operators, sound engineers, location scouts ...