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Writer, actor, sometime robot (Kryten from Red Dwarf),
eco-friendly metal rubbish recycler (Scrapheap Challenge)
and now Internet guru (Bwebb),
here is the multi-talented, multi-media, Robert Llewellyn.
What's in your Favourites folder at the moment?
Just looked through it, it's huge and endless and there
seems to be no theme. Certainly The
Onion is interesting, and an essential for me is
the Internet Movie Database, IMDB
and also the Red
Dwarf page is very good.
Are there any decent comedy sites out there?
Yes, TV
Go Home makes me wet myself, and the Dull
Men's Club, excellent, and not forgetting the simply
un-missable Obsolete
Computer Museum.
What do you think makes a good comedy site?
Laughing at someone on a stage when you are in a room
full of people, quite easy, laughing while watching
telly with other people, quite easy, laughing when you're
on your own in front of a computer, very difficult:
but when I do, I get hysterical because I don't expect
it.
Does the Internet provide a new way of promoting
comedy?
I'm not sure, I suppose it does. It's a medium which
is still seen as a lead to something else rather than
an end in itself. I don't think it's the ideal form
for comedy, but it's changing all the time and it's
clearly not going away so it could become a big comedy
format.
How does it differ to TV comedy?
It's very hard to convince someone to spend money while
they wait an hour to download a five minute comedy sketch,
when they can switch on the telly for next to nothing,
so the competition is unrealistic at the moment. However,
I worked in the US last year, with a T1 connection at
home and the whole 'Internet experience' was very different.
Until broadband isn't some specialist preserve but just
the thing we all have, using the Internet as a broadcast
medium in this country is a bit stuffed. However, there
is no other system that delivers what I put out to the
whole world for comparatively very little money.
Tell us about your site (please)
I write it, take the pictures and make the movie clips
but a very nice man called Mark Lowe from Silicon Valley
runs it and has designed it and makes sure it works.
www.llew.co.uk
Anything you'd like us to plug while we're here?
My latest book, called 'Brother Nature', is about to
come out in paperback. It's about a dot com failure
and his sister, and a silicon chip implant which can
read human emotions. Not science fiction, as this technology
is already in advanced development.
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