The Grand Prize is decided by a panel of esteemed judges (headed by none other than Keyser himself, Kevin Spacey), but we’re also up for the ‘Peoples Choice Award’, which means we really want to see those fingers!
And clicking on the big ‘VOTE FOR ME’ symbol. Easy.
Myself, Andy, Dan and Rob will be attending the official bunfight at the BFI on the southbank in September, so expect more news, views and shrews between now and then.
In the meantime, get those voting digits waggling!
Up until now, we’ve been documenting or travails on our Facebook group. But now we’ve got this alarmingly fantastic blog, we thought we’d give you a quick rundown here. So, straight from the pen of our illustrious Sausage Chronicler, written almost as it bloody happened, we present a Brief History of Sausage:
08/0609
Thanks to the peeps who attended our first foray into the world of “live” comedy on Thursday. Our sketch ‘CGI-Brows’ seemed to go down extremely well!
As a direct result of this aforementioned good reception, the somewhat legendary Mr Robert Popper (’Peep Show’, ‘The Inbetweeners’, author of ‘The Timewaster Letters’) saw fit to give us a rather prominent mention on his esteemed blog:
http://www.robertpopper.com
Which we were rather chuffed about.
Our next appearance at Popcorn Comedy will be in Brighton at the end of this month:
“BRIGHTON POPCORN COMEDY - TUESDAY, 23rd JUNE
Our Brighton debut will take place at 9pm on Tuesday 23 June at The Duke of York’s Picturehouse. Live acts on the evening will include:
JOSIE LONG, TIM KEY, FERGUS CRAIG, IDIOTS OF ANTS
PLUS lots of brilliant films from the likes of Cassetteboy, Worm Hotel, Rocket Sausage and Ladma.
You can book tickets on 0871 704 2056
or by visiting the picture house website for more details.”
Check out Popcorn’s lovely website:
http://www.popcorncomedy.com
22/05/09
ROCKETSAUSAGE LIVE
We’ve got our first “live” (if you can call it that) appearance at the Roxy Bar on Borough High Street on Thursday 4th June for the ‘Popcorn Comedy’ night there. We were rather chuffed to be invited to display our stuff alongside some actual comedians.
If you’re in need of something to do that evening, and you’re lucky enough to be in London, then come down!
ROBERT POPPER - Creator of BBC2’s ‘Look Around You’
JONNY SWEET - “Infectiously funny.” Time out
BRIAN GITTINS – “Brian Gittins is a true original” - The Guardian
DOC BROWN – “Could yet be the Bill Bailey or Tim Minchin of rap” - Chortle
CAROLINE MABEY - “Real comedy bite, silly, poignant and twisted gaggery” The Scotsman
NAT SAUNDERS AND CHRIS HAYWARD - ‘Brilliantly silly’ Robert Popper
and us, of course…
06/05/09
So the Bank Holiday weekend saw us filming our most recent sketch, ‘Andy!’, which should be edited and up for everyone’s viewing pleasure quite soon.
The whole thing went rather swimmingly, we made some new friends, and ate some nice wraps.
All very exciting.
09/03/09
We’ve completed a new. better, shorter cut of CGI-Brows, and it’s become something of a hit in the 5-ish days it’s been up on MySpace Comedy. Watch it here:
03/01/09
And now ‘Janine’ has been featured on the US FunnyOrDie site, which is quite exciting.
http://www.funnyordie.com
02/01/08
‘Mr Pencil’s Grand Design’ once again a featured video on Funny Or Die:
http://www.funnyordie.co.uk
29/12/08
It’s been a while since we last updated, but just letting everyone know that there’s a new sketch in the pipeline, plus a few others planned. Expect to hear us chuntering comedy in your general direction as soon as the New Year is upon us.
14/11/08
WATCH ROCKETSAUSAGE’S VIDEO INTERVIEW
We chatted to the lovely peeps at MySpace about our latest antics. See what was said here:
03/11/08
ROCKETSAUSAGE THROUGH TO FINAL 10 OF MYSPACE TRIDENT COMEDY AWARD
Thanks to everyone’s votes, we’ve survived the first round of voting and are still in contention for the next round of votes.
You all know the drill. Visit us HERE:
http://www.myspace.com/myspacetridentcomedyaward
Click the RocketSausage logo and press CHEW!!!!
29/10/08
We’ve put some photos up of our latest filming adventure (see the bottom of this group page), shot by by Mark Cocksedge. Visit his website here:
http://www.markcocksedge.co.uk
27/10/08
RocketSausage have spent the weekend filiming their latest sketch, and should have it up and ready in the next few days…
16/10/08
Click on the link below to read our briefest of brief interviews with the MySpace Comedy peeps:
Hope you’ve all voted. If not then please do! The link can be found on the group’s main page - just follow it, click on the little sausage picture on the left and then click the blue CHEW button.
07/10/08
We’ve had some rather nifty illustrations done for us by Joe Wilson. Have a look at the pics at the bottom of this page, and visit Joe’s website here:
http://www.joe-wilson.com
02/10/08
Our MySpace profile page has been updated:
http://www.myspace.com/RocketSausage
If you’re one of those social networking whore-types who likes to flirt with more than one site at once, then we suggest you add us ASAP!
29/09/08
So we’ve blundered our way into the finals of this thing
http://www.myspace.com/myspacetridentcomedyaward
and need everyone’s votes to get us through to the live final in London. To watch the video click on the link above and select the ‘RocketSausage’ logo, and press the CHEW button. That counts as a vote for ‘Let Her Go’, our video for the first round. With everyone’s help we could go on to win this, and get a development deal with Warner worth 250 grands. Oh, and a year’s supply of Trident, which was of course the main reason for us doing all this in the first place.
25/09/08 NEWSFLASH
RocketSausage are proud to announce that they have somehow made it into the last 15 of the MySpace Trident Comedy Awards. More news on this to follow…
ALSO, ‘Mr Pencils Grand Design’ has been selected as an official top pick on FunnyOrDie UK’s website. Please feel free to check this out and give us some “funny” votes. Ta.
20/09/08
We’ve just completed our latest sketch, ‘Mr Pencil’s Grand Design’ - featuring a tour de force in weirdness from Mr Timothy Peffers.
So that’s our story so far. There’s much more to come, we hope, so keep your face portholes fixed here. Or here. Or here. Or here. Or here. Or even here.
With moustaches bristling and monocles gleaming, the RocketSausage team are proud to announce the launch of their glorious website and blog. At last the Information Superhighway is ours for the taking!
Visit our homepage and hear Jason, our sausagey mascot and benefactor, speak on a wide range of subjects by simply clicking on his bow tie; meet the team, and find out just who exactly these ‘RocketSausagers’ are and, hopefully, what they want; check out our films page and view our latest offerings, and maybe even send us a message with your thoughts and feelings or even just to offer us your finest salutations.
And don’t forget we’re still on YouTube and MySpace, so you can always still visit us there.