THE MISTER TIBBS GUIDE TO: MAKING COMEDY FROM HOME.

Sure, webcams are great and everything, but are we the only ones bored of laptop footage pretending to be TV programs? And wonky shots off your Auntie Marion’s Samsung suddenly becoming national advertising campaigns?

If the new normal and it’s uglification of our screens is getting to you too then never fear, because at Mister Tibbs we got your back.

We’ve assembled a selection of comedy from our archive that we made while over two meters away from everyone else involved. It’s basically comedy’s first socially distanced portfolio!

If you’re a brand or an agency or anyone with a pressing need to deliver mountains of material to a broadcaster or VOD platform then feel free to take notes.

Did you know that we could do…

2D ANIMATION

Got a couple of belters for you here. Hand drawn characters designed and animated by Sami Abusamra because he had no jobs that day.

LOVE NEST

MARTY McFLY

SILLY SUBS / RE-VOICING

It’s fun isn’t it, taking some existing footage and giving it a whole new meaning by adding daft voiceover or subtitles? Well, back when people actually watched Big Brother, Nick Flügge helped make some hilarity by putting a vee lol spin on clips from other nation’s version of the show and using the results as idents for the UK series.

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STOP MOTION ANIMATION

Our Merry Tibbsmas message from 2017 was a stop motion opus that took actual audio from a Jeremy Kyle episode and added some cartoon voices provided by our mate Elena Saurel. Then we made a dinky Biblical talk show to put all that dialogue to. We “built” a set out of sand paper and pebbles, added some kids’ nativity toys and put a picture of clouds on a flat screen TV to make the sky in the background. Didn’t we do well!

MERRY TIBBSMAS MESSAGE - THE JEREMY VILE SHOW

KINETIC TEXT

Ok, it is a bit like 2D animation isn’t it? But making text whizz around and tell a story is a very specific skill actually. And this job we did for MatchPint even has big a Dave Seaman in it. So yeah. That’s quite good in a way isn’t it.

MATCHPINT INTRO VIDEO

HAVING SAID ALL THAT…

Now Emmerdale are back shooting there’s no excuse really is there.