Rood Eye
Friday 30th November 2018 10:18pm [Edited]
4,103 posts
As it stands, the sketch would do well on a gay/incest website.
Not an ideal situation, unless that was what you were aiming for, but if you change the sexes and/or the ages and/or the relationships of the characters, you're still going to offend people as you introduce a different set of taboos and possibly a number of criminal situations.
It's a question of whether you want the sketch to be funny or whether you want it to be shocking. If you want it to be both, it then becomes a question of how shocking you need to be in order to maximise the funniness.
Perhaps the least-shocking combination would be a wife visiting her husband but the sketch would clearly be funnier and better if it had more shock value than that.
The best (or least bad) all-round option in my view would be a middle-aged man in bed being visited by a young (but 18-plus), attractive female neighbour. Yes, I know it's terribly un-PC and it will certainly ruffle feathers in this day and age but I think it remains the best-balanced option from both a comedic perspective and the perspective of overall social acceptability. It also has the advantage of being unlikely to make viewers vomit onto their living room carpets.