Hello this is Sam. AMA (lol)
Added 2020-10-13 05:11:58 +0000 UTCHello everyone it's me Sam as mentioned in the title of this post. In the past I've written lots of Aunty Donna sketches but presently I'm writing this patreon post. Just checking into say hello and letting you know I can answer any questions you might have for me over the following week. I can cover the following topics and more; Aunty Donna, sketch comedy, scripts, film set catering, the novels of Robin Hobb and the writing of this patreon post.
I had planned to do a live stream with the goal of going through some AD scripts & sketches together but unfortunately my computer is too slow. Though if you're interested in this let me know and I'll make sure it happens in the future. Or if you have any other thoughts/ ideas let me know.
Kind Regards,
Sam Lingham
Comments
I am TOTALLY ready for a stream where you walk through Donna scripts. That is big. However, if you could make it as an unlisted YouTube video or something so that if I miss it I could watch it pls and thanks
2020-11-06 17:22:48 +0000 UTCThe 1 dimensional nature of the character (which is the best bit of the character) meant he had quite a limited shelf life. It just became harder and harder to find things that I thought were funny.
Aunty Donna
2020-10-15 22:48:55 +0000 UTCOver the moon excited. I loved arrival and blade runner so much and Dune is easily one of my top 5 books ever. If it's good I'll be so so happy.
Aunty Donna
2020-10-15 22:46:52 +0000 UTCIf we have a producer on board for a project its their job to find a location and more often than not there are places available. If it's lofi we just call in favours for locations. Doing an afternoon shooting 'Best Day of My Life' was doable because we involved the media class and ex-students. But then that school wasn't able to have us for Glennridge because they has heaps of construction over the summer. We ended up shooting at Max, Tom and Bro's old school and I think it's their personal connections that got us in. Though I severely doubt that would happen again. It's getting nigh on impossible to film in schools.
Aunty Donna
2020-10-15 22:45:34 +0000 UTCI'd say primarily hedonistic. Though there are certain things I'd like to write about/ communicate to larger audience.
Aunty Donna
2020-10-15 22:41:20 +0000 UTCHe took over :(
Aunty Donna
2020-10-15 22:39:32 +0000 UTCWe all love the name. In the early days it made sense to us but not logically, just more of a gut thing. Also sometimes if a name makes too much sense it can restrict what you do. We wanted something that would grow with us over time and Aunty Donna has certainly done that.
Aunty Donna
2020-10-15 22:39:18 +0000 UTCWho adam lol
Aunty Donna
2020-10-15 22:37:02 +0000 UTCHow excited are you for the new dune movie?
Eric Szymkowiak
2020-10-15 11:35:30 +0000 UTCOne day there was no more lust for silver, which makes me sad. Explain
2020-10-15 08:36:34 +0000 UTCHow much of a hassle is it to get permission to film on some of the locations you all have? Organising to use a whole school must have been a bit tricky
2020-10-15 02:24:10 +0000 UTCAre your motivations to write and have a career as a writer hedonistic and based in the pleasure of the process or is it with a specific meaning or objective in mind?
Jonah Morris
2020-10-14 07:15:38 +0000 UTCIs Sam News still going strong or has Zach taken over again and called it Sam News with Zach?
Laura Fraser
2020-10-14 01:58:04 +0000 UTCI’m still fuzzy on the origin behind the name Aunty Donna. Do the boys have any regrets behind this name? Seems a little fucked...how does the name relate to the comedy and the brand?
2020-10-13 23:12:12 +0000 UTCHi adam, it’s time for another podcast with you, Tom, and Max. Thank you!!
Rangiku
2020-10-13 21:13:34 +0000 UTCHey I'm gonna bail for today. I'll check back in later this week xoxox
Aunty Donna
2020-10-13 06:18:22 +0000 UTCHmm... tough call.
Aunty Donna
2020-10-13 06:17:33 +0000 UTCHey Sam, what's your favourite?
Damon Reed
2020-10-13 06:16:05 +0000 UTCI don't know.
Aunty Donna
2020-10-13 06:15:08 +0000 UTCI'm a little too city for the country and a little too country for the city. Melbourne's real cool but it took a me few years to adjust. I like writing and comedy so I live where I can do that easiest.
Aunty Donna
2020-10-13 06:11:42 +0000 UTCSam and refer to himself in the third person.
Aunty Donna
2020-10-13 06:08:35 +0000 UTCIt's a small shoot so we'll have some toast (a nice sourdough & a gluten free loaf), a selection of pastries and two types of cereal )both cow and soy milk). We'll also have a percolator, tea bags and some juice. Please bring your own water bottle and keep cup.
Aunty Donna
2020-10-13 06:08:04 +0000 UTCHere's a list. Elrond, Shelf and Rayond E Feists Dark ones.
Aunty Donna
2020-10-13 06:05:11 +0000 UTCWhy are you the way you are ?
2020-10-13 06:02:54 +0000 UTCSamuel and it was shortened to Sam by my parents. I have chosen to uphold this shortening and I honestly couldn't tell you why.
Aunty Donna
2020-10-13 06:02:29 +0000 UTCNot really. Depends on the context etc.
Aunty Donna
2020-10-13 06:00:36 +0000 UTCI'm both very serious about being silly but also very serious about being serious. I think all of us, like all people, are serious about different things at different times. That's a very vanillas answer but it's true. fart.
Aunty Donna
2020-10-13 06:00:06 +0000 UTCTo be satisfying you should provide yum food and not yuck food. Also a balance of different yum foods is important for satisfaction. Minimising wastage is all about estimating and I think that only really comes with practice.
Aunty Donna
2020-10-13 05:58:21 +0000 UTCI've read all of Robin Hobb's novels because she is the best at novels. Spoiler alert everyone, I'll be vague but still spoiler alert.. One of my favourite things about her is how she uses magic to make her characters more powerful but the flip side of that means she can really put them through the ringer. Like really make them suffer. The protagonists journey in the Soldier Son Trilogy is a perfect example of that. It's also why I think the end of the Realm of the Elderlings is so moving. It feels like finally, Fitz has earnt the ending. When other authors do endings like that it tends to annoy me a bit.
Aunty Donna
2020-10-13 05:56:23 +0000 UTCIt's fun to step in occasionally, I did train s an actor so it's not completely alien to em. Usually I step in when we're running super lofi and we don't want to have the bother of getting someone else in. If I'm doing something that's actually important for the sketch I can get a bit nervous as it's not a muscle that I exercise very often.
Aunty Donna
2020-10-13 05:49:37 +0000 UTCI'm not telling you Dead Pirate 666
Aunty Donna
2020-10-13 05:46:39 +0000 UTCNo not really. I think if I placed more value on the public perception of what I do it would bother me more. However, I consider the best bit of my job to be when I'm in the writers room and I find something funny for the first time. In those moments I don't really give a fuck about anything else. I'll also note I did train as an actor and while it was great it's certainly not the best fit for me. There are also pros and cons to being a public figure, a lot of those cons would bother me quite a bit.
Aunty Donna
2020-10-13 05:46:26 +0000 UTCNo this is false.
Aunty Donna
2020-10-13 05:38:51 +0000 UTCI have a mac book air from 2016. It's great for writing text and carrying around to gigs but that's about it.
Aunty Donna
2020-10-13 05:38:34 +0000 UTCI have done many small parts in many sketches so I'll probably not remember them all. I like cocaine and cake as the chaotic silliness makes me laugh a lot.
Aunty Donna
2020-10-13 05:36:13 +0000 UTCI pronounce it Sam Lingham
Aunty Donna
2020-10-13 05:34:38 +0000 UTCSam
Aunty Donna
2020-10-13 05:34:19 +0000 UTCSam
Aunty Donna
2020-10-13 05:34:04 +0000 UTCI met Zach at an audition for VCA acting course (neither of us got in). I met Tom through both living together on residence at Ballarat uni. I met Broden when he came to say hello to Tom at residence. I met Mark in my second year of university, I was a mentor helping out first years and Mark was the first person to show up on Monday morning, we also shared a mutual friend called Malcolm. I met Max when he came to visit Tom in Ballarat but I don't think we would've spoken until I went to a concert by Tom and Max's rock'n'roll band Napoleon in rags.
Aunty Donna
2020-10-13 05:32:56 +0000 UTCWhich of the Aunty Donna boys do you like working with the least? What could they do to win back your favour?
2020-10-13 05:30:40 +0000 UTCI have many questions regarding set catering and if breakfast is on offer, if so, what options? please and thank you warmest regards
Yakky
2020-10-13 05:27:12 +0000 UTCThank you for being a fan but no thank you for your question. It's incredibly inappropriate.
Aunty Donna
2020-10-13 05:25:11 +0000 UTCI'm always plotting away at something but nothing I can talk about. Mainly because I start lots of things that go nowhere.
Aunty Donna
2020-10-13 05:24:29 +0000 UTCWhat's your favorite kind of Elf?
dogglesnake
2020-10-13 05:23:21 +0000 UTCHi Sam, is your name short for Samuel? if so, why have you shortened it? for the convenience of having to only introduce yourself by saying one syllable? for the convenience of others, by having them only have to say one syllable? or is it to save time when you are writing/typing it out? or possibly it is short for Samantha... in which case; how old were you when you got your first period?
2020-10-13 05:22:37 +0000 UTCI'm ok, thank you for enquiring.
Aunty Donna
2020-10-13 05:21:10 +0000 UTCSam
Aunty Donna
2020-10-13 05:20:55 +0000 UTCWould you ever consider doing a raunchy Xmas calender? And I don't mean the boys I mean specifically just you.
2020-10-13 05:19:55 +0000 UTCYou come across as the most serious one to me, do you think that’s true? If it’s not - who is the most serious out of all you guys? Edit: when I say serious I mean most ‘down to business’ type attitude
2020-10-13 05:19:46 +0000 UTCRe catering: what’s the secret in terms of satisfying everyone and also minimising wastage?
Kylie Jones
2020-10-13 05:19:25 +0000 UTCHave you read Hobb’s Soldier Son trilogy or just the Realm of The Elderlings books? If you’ve read the trilogy, what do you think of it? This is more of an anecdote but after I finished Assassin’s Fate I cried so hard the capillaries in my nose burst and my nose was very purple for weeks. Bye
Gay Karl Marx
2020-10-13 05:17:50 +0000 UTCDo you like performing in Aunty Donna or do you just kinda tolerate it and prefer writing?
Ashley McVeigh
2020-10-13 05:16:59 +0000 UTCspecifically zach's diet
2020-10-13 05:16:54 +0000 UTCwhat do the boys eat on set?
2020-10-13 05:16:22 +0000 UTCWhat's your address sammy?
2020-10-13 05:15:45 +0000 UTCBit of a serious one, does it ever bother you being “the other” members of Aunty Donna? Do you wish you could’ve also been the face of the group like Mark, Zach, and Broden?
2020-10-13 05:15:25 +0000 UTCI heard you're good at solving Rubix cubes. Is this true?
2020-10-13 05:15:09 +0000 UTCHey Sam, love your work. Would you consider yourself to be a country boy? Or a bit of a city slicker after all these years? Kind regards
Herschel Friction
2020-10-13 05:13:48 +0000 UTCWhy cumpooter slow ?
2020-10-13 05:13:22 +0000 UTCWhat’s your favourite sketch that you yourself have acted in?
Andrei Agnew
2020-10-13 05:13:11 +0000 UTCDo you pronounce your full name as “samling-ham”?
2020-10-13 05:13:10 +0000 UTCWhat was your inspiration for this Patreon post?
2020-10-13 05:13:03 +0000 UTCWho dis?
Caitie Murphy
2020-10-13 05:12:58 +0000 UTCHow did you guys meet? Ik it was around the performing arts uni but more specific
2020-10-13 05:12:56 +0000 UTCHello Sam, big fan. Loved you in Social Media Irl, very good. How big is your dick?
Matt Brown
2020-10-13 05:12:55 +0000 UTCAny groovy new stuff you working on?
2020-10-13 05:12:38 +0000 UTCHey Sam, how are you?
2020-10-13 05:12:31 +0000 UTCWhat's your name?
Raffa
2020-10-13 05:12:27 +0000 UTC
