Max Davis

Writer. Small in the 80s. Mash Report, Trying (Apple TV) News Quiz, Lenny Henry Show, Comic Relief, Horrible Histories. Creator of BBC sitcom PARENTAL GUIDANCE

[Max Davis @maxwdavis]

Thrilled to be repped by the mighty PBJ!

[PBJ Management @pbjmanagement]

🚨 NEW CLIENT ALERT 🚨

A massive PBJ welcome to Max Davis!

Max Davis is a prolific and highly in demand screen writer for television, who also works regularly in radio and live comedy.

Welcome Max!

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[Benjamin Partridge @benpartridge]

Hello! I've made a short film, Daddy Superior, which stars @mrmikewozniak @CallMeCantrill and @sammytdobson and I'm screening it at @chaptertweets in Cardiff on Sunday at 2.30pm along with some other great short films. Tickets £5 - come come come! https://t.co/2ICuBWOsgl

[Max Davis @maxwdavis]

Bill was a champion of new writers. He ran an excellent room. Always in on the joke, always happy to make fun of himself. He was totally committed to good work, so he didn’t hold your hand, which made it all the more rewarding when you made him laugh. I liked him so much.

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

Utter nonsense.

A shrinking & ageing population is a disaster. Impossible to afford welfare state or even pay pensions as dependency ratio goes out of whack.

Without immigration our public services would collapse entirely pretty quick.

WE NEED PEOPLE.

[Hari Kondabolu @harikondabolu]

WHITE DUDES WHITESPLAINING MARTIN LUTHER KING TO HIS SON. ENJOY.

[Josie Lawrence @josielawrence1]

Memories of just laughing a lot. Being silly and laughing. He was talented kind funny and beautiful. Sending love and condolences to wonderful Mark. Rest in peace now Tony.

[Max Davis @maxwdavis]

I mean, he made Jaws The Revenge. So I’d say his judgement is pretty good guys.

[Michael Caine @themichaelcaine]

Call a General Election - Petitions https://t.co/ZhVgi7uGLG

[Jori Lallo @jorilallo]

Didn’t expect Ben Affleck to have the most articulate and realistic explanation where video models and Hollywood is going

[Max Davis @maxwdavis]

Lenny Henry’s Legends of Comedy starts tonight on Channel 4 at 8:15pm Written by me! 👀 @LennyHenry

[Max Davis @maxwdavis]

If you can’t recall your racist tweet, then you’re probably writing too many racist tweets

[Max Davis @maxwdavis]

Proud to have written with my dear friend @destheray on Friday’s Last Leg in this week of awful news. The only way out is through. This is the fight of our lives.

[Max Davis @maxwdavis]

Aw man, Teri Garr was one of the best

[Michele Norris @michele_norris]

As of yesterday, I have decided to resign from my role as a columnist for The Washington Post — a newspaper that I love. In a moment like this, everyone needs to make their own decisions. This is the reasonfor mine. 🧵

[tré easton @treeaston]

my god. just…my god.

[Max Davis @maxwdavis]

@storyandplot What’s the book called Tom?

[Max Davis @maxwdavis]

I love this movie so much

[Tom Vaughan @storyandplot]

If there was ever a perfect film, it's TOOTSIE.

A book on the making of TOOTSIE changed my screenwriting forever. Reading Sydney Pollack break the entire story down as, "a man who dresses up as a woman and becomes a better man" was perhaps the key moment that led to more consistency in my work.

A light bulb went off. THAT is how you define a story.

Two points about the screenplay:

1) It has a fun structure with how the hero gets what he always wanted at the midpoint, only to realize he's trapped by it.

Ratatouille does something similar when Remy and Linguini are the toast of Paris, but their success makes everything worse.

If I am having trouble with the midpoint, "What if I just give them what they always wanted?" remains a fun possibility for me.

2) There are few actual jokes in Tootsie. It is played less for laughs and more for truth, trusting that playing it as truthfully as possible will be the source of the laughs.

This is how someone like Pollack, who Dabney Coleman described as, "Not the funniest guy in the world," made one of the best comedies ever.

Needless to say, a lot of help from Murray Schisgal, Larry Gelbert and Elaine May, all brilliant in their own right.

The scene here between Dorsey and his agent George still makes me laugh and I must have seen it 100 times.

I love this movie. An all-time classic.

[Max Davis @maxwdavis]

I feel like these guys are definitely ready to run the country again

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

Audible gasps in room at result - James Cleverly was 18 points ahead y'day.

I've spoken to Tory MPs today who were voting for their preferred *second* candidate in final two - all were working on basis Cleverly was safe.

"The most sophisticated electorate in the world" 🤨

[Alice Lowe @alicelowe]

big shout out to the independent cinemas who are showing Timestalker and being so supportive of a filmmaker/mum trying to make a Q&A tour work! tricky logistics but so grateful to be able to do this. #SupportIndieFilm support your local indie cinema!

[mutable joe @mutablejoe]

if I was nearly prime minister I'd let my son study in a rich persons house to keep him away from you weirdos, sorry

[Tim Farron @timfarron]

This is getting silly now. Leave his kids out of it, and stop blowing things out of proportion. There is bad behaviour amongst some politicians, but this constant pearl clutching at everything undermines trust to an unjustified and dangerous extent. Try reporting some news.

[Flic Everett @fliceverett]

Swear to god, this will be me.