Afternoon Play (In Colour) Page 2

Quote: Huge Bear @ May 4 2009, 6:21 PM BST

No we don't shit ourselves. We never need to shit ourselves. But we do often use small animals to wipe ourselves with afterwards...

In the woods?... Rolling eyes

Yep. Rolling eyes Rolling eyes

Here's Nitram's clever and funny comeback - touché!

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I've just realised who Nitram's style reminds me of.

Quote: Dolly Dagger @ May 5 2009, 2:55 PM BST

I've just realised who Nitram's style reminds me of.

Who? Come on, spill the beans.

Quote: Rob H @ May 5 2009, 3:00 PM BST

Who? Come on, spill the beans.

Because it made me laugh.

Someone who's wife has hurt her ankle.

'WASHINGTON, April 28 -- The Baroness Hengelmtiller, wife of the Ambassador from Austria-Hungary, is confined to her home with a badly sprained ankle, which resulted from a mis-step in her dining room Sunday evening. The accident is distressing, as the passage of the Ambassador and family is engaged on the Campania, sailing from New York on Saturday.'

Ah yes.

Laughing out loud

Okay, someone who likes ping pong and writing children's literature.

Try googling that.

I did it just came up with porn. How am I going to explain that away now!

Shut your eyes now Enid!

Ah Miss Blyton, author of the little known 'Five go for a Manage a Cinq.'

She was a bit of a one in real life allegedly. Lesbo romps and topless tennis apparently.

Quote: Dolly Dagger @ May 5 2009, 3:22 PM BST

She was a bit of a one in real life allegedly. Lesbo romps and topless tennis apparently.

Oh, all women do that! *Looks around for his dream/reality diagram*

Only at girls schools.

What is so painfully ironic, is; though this sketch has obvious potential, it would (IMOH) be much funnier in black and white. Just hark back to the early hancock shows and you'll see what I mean. If you compare those with the more recent colour versions that Paul Merton did on radio4, you might just get what I'm grasping at. I believe he did some for TV too, in the 90's, where my point holds more water. The trouble with Sitram is he comes up with great ideas, but then runs out of steam after a few stabs in the dark at dialogue.. Ideas are the easy part. It's turning them into the finished product is the real challenge. That's why there are so many prolific writers on this site, coming up with short but complete products. Tiny sketches that are brilliant in conception and original in conception. It never ceases to amaze me why I keep seeing the same names month in year out. Why hasn't this goldmine of comedy talent been plundered by the bbc or even channel 4/5? On a negative note, I think your self-styled stage instructions, are a little too elaborate (IMOH)but your characters - although they seem quite shallow on the surface-probably have great depth potentially. You just need to flesh them out a bit more.
PS. Did you contribute to the SPUD-U-LIKE you-tube series of sketches? They definitely seem your style. Because I know one of the ladies, that acted in those. The one that had that funny hand. If you did, then we have met.