We once again opened our door, or rather inbox, to you to submit your sketches and scripts for the next episode of 4amcab and, flippin’ ‘eck did you respond?  Yes you did.  We had by far our highest number of would be cabbers send us their thoughts and we thank you all for taking the time and interest to send us stuff.  We’re currently sifting through everything to see what will work and what is, well, not quite right for us.

We had a really wide selection of ideas, probably in the region of about 50 sketches.  We did notice there was one topic that was more popular than others which can only be termed ‘bedroom’ sketches.  I guess you lot get up to more interesting things at 4am than we do.  Seriously though, we too send our ideas out to other programmes in the hope that we will one day be loved, so we know how it feels to get rejected.  If you’d like to get some feedback on why we’ve not used your contribution then do get in touch and we’ll get back to you.  We’ve had some useful dialogue with several writers that have sent in their work.  David Salisbury, from the Live from Kirrin Island podcast, sent this response after we’d given him feedback:

“As you know dealing with comedy writers, especially beginners involves a lot of fragile egos so your gentle approach to criticism is appreciated I’m sure. As I wrote recently, submitting sketches is the emotional equivalent of asking complete strangers to slap you in the face in the hope that one day they will miss. So it’s always good if they’re not swinging their arm too hard!”

Read David’s full blog post here

Episode 5 ought to be ready towards the start of next month, we will shout about it the minute it is ready. As always, follow us on twitter for updates.