Since November 2019, I have been submitting material to BBC Scotland's Breaking the News . Writers Briefs are sent out by the programme's Producers on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, with a follow up for a few extras and bits that need mopping up on a Thursday morning. You submit your material and wait patiently until the programme airs on a Friday lunchtime in the hope that you might hear something you wrote being said by the excellent host, stand up comedian, Des Clarke . I've been lucky enough to have four jokes broadcast so far. Now, I'm not going to take all the credit, as the excellent script editors help to craft your words into what finally makes it out of Des's mouth and on the air. Each show has the same format, and because I only tend to submit jokes for the openers and closers, there are only six slots per show that I am trying to get one of my jokes to be used in. That means that there is a lot of material submitted that doesn't make it on air. I