Seriously Funny Productions Ltd · Film & TV comedy · Est. 2013
Seriously Funny
You: “Surely you can't be serious?”
Us: “We are serious… and don't call us Shirley.”
— with apologies to Airplane! (1980)
A British production company making feature films, sitcoms and series — with a deadly serious commitment to being silly.
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Pre-flight announcement
We make comedy for the big screen and the small one. Silent slapstick, rubber-hose cartoons, ruined weddings, time-travelling families, haunted corner shops and zombie flicks made on a sandwich budget. Big laughs, real heart, and absolutely no Shirleys.
Gate SF · Terminal Comedy
Departures
* All flights on time. Looks like we picked the wrong week to quit making comedy.
Reel 01 / Feature film
My Silent Idiot
“A well-meaning idiot, his furious stepfather, and a town that may never recover.”
A modern silent comedy, set in a 1920s European village, in the tradition of Chaplin, Keaton and Tati. Kev is a lovable man-child who leaves disaster in his wake; Elliott is the uptight stepfather whose life unravels daily in silent, operatic fury. No dialogue, just title cards, a full score, big slapstick set-pieces and a catastrophic food fight.
It celebrates laughter that needs no translation, with an international cast that includes actors from the Deaf and hard-of-hearing communities.
- Format
- Feature · Silent comedy
- Think
- The Artist meets Laurel & Hardy
- Status
- Raising finance
“Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into.”
Oliver Hardy, Laurel & Hardy
Concept frames · The catastrophic food fight
Drag the reel. Click a frame for the big screen.
Mr & Mrs Somebody-Else
request the pleasure of your company
at the marriage of their daughter
Charlotte & Rupert
Hartwell House · Saturday · 2 o'clock
Kindly reply
Reel 02 / Feature film
The Wedding Destroyer
A decent man. A complete catastrophe. Both at once.
For eleven years Kevin Prescott has carried trays at the same country-house wedding venue, and in all that time nobody has looked at the man with the tray. So he puts his invisibility to work: a discreet, very well-reviewed business destroying the weddings of people who deserve it. Business is booming, right up until a premium contract arrives with a name on it he knows.
The whole story is told as Kevin's eulogy at his mother's funeral, to a room that can't leave. Some of them are people whose weddings he ruined.
- Format
- Feature · British dark comedy
- Think
- Meet the Parents with a body count of marriages
- Status
- Script in development
“Is it still raining? I hadn't noticed.”
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
Reel 03 / Comedy series
Roxy
Ten years ago the world wanted her. Now she has Wayne.
Roxy is a 1930s cartoon who glitched into the real world a decade ago and became the most famous face on the planet. Now the novelty has worn off, the work has dried up, and the only person still paid to watch her is a minder with no qualifications and a company car. She can't sing, dance or act. She has never once let that stop her.
- Format
- 6 × 30' hybrid comedy, live action with a performance-captured 1930s cartoon
- For fans of
- BoJack Horseman, Hacks, Alan Partridge
- Created by
- Kevin Durham & Elliott Stein
- Status
- 11-min pilot in post-production
“I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.”
Jessica Rabbit, Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Reel 04 / Animated short
First Blood
A hero dad. A late-night errand. A newsagent with a secret.
On a weekend visit to her single dad Nigel, twelve-year-old Scarlet has her first period. Completely unprepared, Nigel sets out on a mission to be a hero dad and find supplies, only to discover that every shop in town is shut. As panic sets in, he's ambushed by memories of his little girl growing up.
Then he finds one shop still open, run by a seemingly helpful newsagent who is hiding something very dark indeed. A comedy about letting go, with a sci-fi horror twist.
- Format
- Animated comedy short · Sci-fi/horror twist
- Status
- In production
“Ray, when someone asks you if you're a god, you say YES!”
Winston Zeddemore, Ghostbusters (1984)
Reel 05 / Feature film / 2024
B-Movie
A British comedy about friendship, community, and a very badly written zombie flick.
After yet another TV pitch is rejected, out-of-work writer Kevin is talked into producing a B-movie with his friend Ben, who's funding it and cutting every corner going. To save money they hire an amateur dramatics society, who'll be “happy to be in front of the camera for a few measly sandwiches.” Kevin tells his fiancée the TV show got commissioned. Nothing about this ends well. Then it does.
- Format
- Feature · Comedy
- Status
- Released on Amazon, 2024
“You've got red on you.”
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Finding out how King Harold really died.
Reel 06 / Animated sitcom
Time Family
Family Guy meets Back to the Future.
William and Pauline adopted when everything else failed. Determined to be the best dad on the planet, William built a time machine. While other kids get theme parks, his are off to 1066. Pauline is more interested in breaking wind and breaking rules, Ben is beyond embarrassment, and Nubia would just like to see her friends. Meanwhile Satan plans to steal the time machine and make everyone watch every episode of The Real Housewives.
- Format
- Animated sci-fi family comedy
- Status
- Watch the pilot
“Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads.”
Doc Brown, Back to the Future (1985)
Reel 07 / Sitcom pilot
The Sketchbook
Nigel is a failed author, a divorced dad drowning in guilt, and a wedding toastmaster pushed around by everyone. Wanting him to be happy, his ten-year-old daughter draws him a girlfriend in the cursed antique sketchbook he gave her for her birthday. What's drawn in it comes to life. With dire consequences.
- Format
- Sitcom · Concept pilot
- Status
- Now on YouTube
“Could be worse.” “How?” “Could be raining.”
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Seat-back screen · Channel 11
In-flight entertainment
Name that comedy. Three choices, one right answer, no parachutes.
Your captain today
Kevin Durham
Writer, actor, producer and founder of Seriously Funny Productions.
Seriously Funny Productions has been making comedy since 2013. Features, sitcoms, animation, sketches, web series. We write it, cast it, shoot it and, when the budget runs out, cater it.
We believe comedy is the most serious job in show business. The timing has to be perfect, the prop safe has to fit in the dress, and somebody has to clean up after the food fight.
“I'm kind of a big deal.”
Ron Burgundy, Anchorman (2004). Not Kevin. Kevin is very humble.
“Can you fly this plane, and land it?”
“Surely you can't be serious.”
Let's make something seriously funny.
hello@seriously-funny.uk“I just want to tell you both good luck. We're all counting on you.” Airplane! (1980)