The longlist for this year's David Nobbs Memorial Trust New Comedy Writing Competition has been revealed. Each script submitted was read and scored twice. The judges are Lucy Lumsden, owner of Yellow Door Productions and formerly head of comedy commissioning at both Sky and the BBC, Welsh actor, comedian and author Katy Wix (Ghosts, Stath Lets Flats) and actor, writer and producer Barunka O'Shaughnessy (The Mighty Boosh).

The competition offers a cash prize of £1000 and a runner up prize of £250 for up-and-coming comedy writers in order to help them to ‘buy time’ for writing. The winner will also get a valuable one-to-one consultation with an established comedy producer or commissioner from the Trust board.

And the names in no particular order are:

Nick Chen

Joe Reaney

Joanna Tilley & Krysia Pepper

Benjamin Sutton

Tom Worsley

Peter Dickenson

Orlando Gibbs

Mike Sheldon

Rhiannon Shaw

Joe Barnes

Ollie George Clarke

Sean Stoakes

Dan Hooper

Tom Oxenham

Charlie Dinkin

Caroline Mabey

Luke Rollason & Kit Sullivan

Ana Basu