British Comedy Guide

Panel Show

Here's a sketch my little group wrote about 18 months ago. We tossed it because it felt too easy a target, but seeing as it just effectively turned up at the end of the Harry & Paul BBC 2 show, I thought I'd stick it up Laughing out loud

[Cut to panel show set]

RUSSELL: [In mid-sentence] And she looks like a mutant potato that's been rolled through the Laura Ashley warehouse!

PRESENTER: Ha ha, she really does. [Serious tone] And our condolences go out to her family. Now, onto the next round, who can tell us anything about the politics?

RUSSELL: The politics is a twat.

PRESENTER: Yes, very good, young and eager as ever. Anyone else? The politics?

POSH: I also think the politics is a twat. But it sounds funnier when I say it, because I have a 2:1 from Cambridge and a corduroy jacket.

PRESENTER: Indeed you do, excellent point.

AMERICAN: Can I just say, my culture be subtly different from y'all's?

PRESENTER: You always do, so I don't see why not. Now then, what -

NAUGHTY: Rectal cancer dead Diana spastic face!

PRESENTER: Oho, there he is, controversial as ever.

NAUGHTY: A giant cock spunking glass into the eye of an African midget!

PRESENTER: Well I never. Any more?

NAUGHTY: [Pause] No.

WOMAN: Can I say something?

PRESENTER: Well, you can have a try, love, but it probably won't make the edit

WOMAN: Right. [Draws breath to speak. Cut clumsily back to PRESENTER]

PRESENTER: So that's all we have time for tonight. And, totting up the scores I see the winner is...British broadcasting. Insightful comedy and towering satire. It's a golden age, ladies and gentlemen, a golden age.

[Lights dim, and credits roll over wide shot of panel as theme plays]

ANNOUNCER: [VO] And, the panel will be back at the same time next week. But, if you can't wait that long, just turn over, they're almost certainly on something else.

It's a good sketch, Gappy, and got a good punchline.

Surprised it hadn't been done years ago, though, as it's fairly ripe for a skewering.

Excellent!

The spunk bit was a splash too far for me but otherwise a big thumbs up as it were.

That's an excellent sketch, not only funny and a great idea.

But a rarety in that it's very nicely constructed and thoughtfully put together.

Glad you all enjoyed it. I should note that it's mostly not my work, it's Alastair's, I just did the second draft you see here.

I think it's kind of funny, but it's definitely a blunt tool to hit a straw target (near a barn door, presumably).

I must be past my sell-by date. To me that was like an eight year old being as naughty as he could be.

If you mean it was an easy swipe at an easy target, that will change nothing, then I'd entirely agree with you.

Quote: gappy @ 28th May 2014, 8:53 AM BST

...will change nothing

The definition of satire? Mm?

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