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BBC Points West are helping assist in a World Record attempt for the most jokes told in an hour - with any proceeds from a collection going to Comic Relief.
And so who else should they ask to help provide the jokes? BigJokeBook ofcourse!
So just so you know - if, or rather ‘when’, you enter your jokes into the BigJokeBook, they might also be used by the Beeb!
Phew - just back from Cabot Circus, Bristol, where we officially launched BigJokeBook.co.uk! Thanks to all our star joke tellers!
Wibfilm Ltd
TREMENDOUS applause goes to Wibfilm Ltd - our fantastic video production friends from just up the road in Brizzol, without whom today’s launch wouldn’t have happened.
The whole scene in Cabot Circus was based around the viral video Wifilm are making for BigJokeBook.co.uk - BigJokeBook tv. They put a big sofa in the middle of a busy shopping area (with permission ofcourse!) and filmed loads of lovely people telling jokes!
They brought fancy dress - as well as the sofa obviously - and an enthusiastic team of ‘wibbers’ to Direct, Produce, Film and just generally do everything! Special thanks goes Martin - Chief Wibber for the idea and all his hard work, and Becky who has been a star in organising filming licenses etc.
We were there for 8am sharp, so as to be interviewed for BBC Radio Bristol - unfortunately we lost reception and I got cut off! Many many thanks to those guys for coming down and for getting up early especially!
And then BBC Points West rolled up - filming people telling jokes, and even holding a live Interview with Martin Finney of Wibfilm and myself, Lisa Bailey, 18a Productions. We’re also going to be on Points West tonight - so stay tuned between 6.30pm and 7pm.
Thanks also has to of course, go to Cabot Circus and Space 2 Film for letting us shoot there.
As soon as BigJokeBook tv is ready to air - it’ll be on the site!
Apple iPhone Icon
Still too early to be doing things like this! But BigJokeBook.co.uk now has it’s own iPhone icon. This means that if you add it to the home screen on your iPhone, you don’t just see a screenshot of the website, you get a proper little icon 
If you want your own, just give our developers a shout.
It’s far too early in the morning to be working on things like this! But - none the less - you can now add a desk top shortcut to your computer, so bigjokebook.co.uk is only ever a click away! To do it, you need to have Google Gears installed. If you haven’t, no worries, the site will prompt you and tell you how to install it.
As far as we can find, we’re the only development company in the world who include this functionality on websites! (Right now, anyway.) Cool, eh?!
Bigjokebook.co.uk is live! Tell us what you think! And most importantly, get adding your jokes for Comic Relief!
We’ve got some serious functionality on this baby!
Pick a widget 
for your website or blog, subscribe to our joke rss feed 
, or tell your friends about the site with Facebook Connect 
. It’s all here!
Just a few more tests and then it’s show time!
I just went and got our banner for the Cabot Circus launch tomorrow - it looks fab! Many many thanks to the guys at Display and Innovation for printing it for us and lending us a stand! And for even coming and finding me when I got lost on the way to them (I was only around the corner, honest).
I’ll put a photo up tomorrow to show you how it looked!
Launching Thursday 12th February, at Cabot Circus, Bristol…
Spare a joke for comic relief at bigjokebook.co.uk
Add a joke for £1 – with all the proceeds* going to comic relief.
Browse for free – join the fun for £1.
Businesses – upload your logo for £5.
Come along to Cabot Circus from 11am until 2pm on Thursday 12th February to take part in the filming of our viral video – bigjokebook tv!
Notes for Editors:
*Payment transaction fees will be deducted from the £1 by a 3rd party payment gateway service.
A payment gateway service has to be used to ensure secure transactions.
Contributors to the project:
Concept, website design and website build: 18a Productions Ltd
Contact: Lisa Bailey, 01179 240 496 / 07870 29597 / lisa at 18aproductions.co.uk
www.18aproductions.co.uk
Logo: The Usual Studio
Contact: Charlee Sully, 01926 431 528 / 07725 198 814 / charlee at theusualstudio.co.uk
www.theusualstudio.co.uk
Viral Video/BigJokeBook TV: Wibfilm Ltd
Contact: Martin Finney / 0845 257 4786 / martin at wibfilm.com
www.wibfilm.com
Concept and website design and development by 18a Productions
Many thanks to:
Wibfilm for the fantastic bigjokebook tv viral video
The Usual Studio for our very lovely logo
