So, fellow sit com writers, tell us - what's your idea? What makes it all come together? Is it actually funny, or do you just think so?

Oh yeah! Finally found someone else writing a sitcom!

Actually, I don't really know what mine's about yet. I'm waiting for my writing partner's opinion on my idea. I'll get back to you on that.

I'm writing a sitcom about classic literature characters (Les Miserables) forced into a modern-day city. It'll either be hilarius or really, really sad. Hard to tell at the moment. :D

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I'm actually writing an episode of The Office! Yeah, it's technically fanfiction, but I want to do it. I've never written a script, or comedy before, so I wanted to ease into it more easily than coming up with a whole new story. (Plus, I need to edit my NaNo, ugh.)

Sitcom about life in the workplace. That workplace being...a bottle depot.** It's actually based almost entirely off my experiences working at one this past summer. One day of work with there gave me enough material for three or four episodes of a sitcom. It was awesome. :P So I decided to try and write one. All the characters are based off actual real life counterparts, modified only slightly if at all.

(**Not sure if every country has bottle deposits in place. If you don't know what I'm talking about...well, look it up. It's not that important to the plot as a whole, though. It's more about the characters.)

Cool ideas all around. My sitcom is about Writers, in general, but also about moving to the city and finding work and apartments and the like... is what I am doing now so I have plenty of material.

Like, last week? I went to this job interview that was in a university clasroom, but I had the address wrong and wound up in Anatomy Class XD

Mine's actually a superhero sitcom. The main character is a twenty-something with superpowers who is forced into joining the association (kind of a union for superheroes) against his will.

Superhero sitcom! Sounds awesome.

The one I wrote last year/am considering continuing this year is semi-autbiographical and unfortunately I dont have a pitch for it other than "3 Dudes and a Girl live their lives."

One I'm currently working on producing for my school's tv station is called "Suities" and its about college suitemates. Think Undeclared but more wacky/less typical teen stuff

I like everyone's ideas. Very fecund.

Like some of the other posters here, I am basing my sitcom on real life and work. It's about a wacky team of people who do the early morning duties merchandising/stocking/assorted duties in an upscale department store.

I'm doing this project partly on a dare. We (the real life wacky team) sat around the break room one day and decided that all the crazy things we do and say should become a sitcom. Naturally the writer of the group got stuck with the task.

My sitcom is about college, too! It's about two slacker college kids and their ragtag group of friends. I can't explain much better than that, really... But if you know a lot of British Sitcoms, think of "Spaced" in college.

Wow, these are all such great ideas you guys have. I haven't completely decided yet if I'm going to write a sit-com this year or if I'd rather go the feature-writing route, but I'm leaning toward my first choice because I just love sit-coms. And I enjoy the mechanics of TV writing.

But, anyway...my idea - Suave and charming Jamie promises his college-turned high school sweetheart, Taylor, that she's the only one for him, but she decides to test his loyalty behind the scenes by recruiting the entire high school student body to ensure he sets his sights on no girl but her.

Yay for comedy! I really like the mix of ideas in here - from the wacky fish-out-of-water premises to the ones that aren't reinventing the wheel. With the right characters, any of them could be gold. Look forward to hearing how you all go!

Like many of you in here, I like writing from experience. Mine is a six-part TV series (single-camera, not traditional sitcom) set in an amateur theatre group. Lots of wonderfully wacky characters that are a mish-mash of people I met through theatre and, well, just life.

It may be a mockumentary - haven't decided yet. I'm erring on the side of not because I think it's been done a lot in recent years. I kind of want it to be Australia's answer to '30 Rock' (we haven't had all that much smart comedy on TV here for a while) - like '30 Rock' meets 'Seachange' (an Australian dramady series from a few years back). I'm sure it'll evolve into something all of its own, but that's my starting point. :)

I'm actually doing a sitcom based on my Nanowrimo story. After writing it, I realized that I was picturing it that way all along.

The story's about a 20-something ending her only serious relationship and heading into the new world of dating...in a small city.

I suppose that makes it a chick-com, but less Sex in the City and more The Office.