British Comedy Guide

Austrian Holiday

Any good and does it need the last line?

[Tyrolean guest house. A young couple are coming down to breakfast. They are met are at the bottom of the stairs by the owner]

Owner:
Guden Morgan Herr Jones Freulein Jones. I trust you slept well?

Mr. Jones:
Yes thanks. Wonderful room

Mrs. Jones:
Fantastic views.

Owner:
Yes, ze Austrian countryside is magnificent. Please, come viz me to ze dining room.

[They do so. When they get there there are two guests already sat down. A man who is the spitting image of Hitler and a younger blonde woman. He is doing a crossword with pencil in hand]

Owner:
Mr and Mrs Jones zis is Herr Fittler and his vife Eva Fittler.

[The Jones’s stand there stunned.]

Fittler:
Guden Morgan

[Eva smiles at the couple]

BEAT.

Owner:
Please sit down

[They do so opposite each other and look at each other dubiously]

Fittler:
I said Guden Morgan.

Mr. Jones:
Oh sorry! Still half asleep. Good Morning.

Mrs. Jones:
Morning.

Owner:
I vill bring your breakfasts shortly.

[She leaves. Awkward silence]

Mrs. Jones:
Have you been here long?

Fittler:
Nein, ve arrived in ze night. Only got here just in time for check in. Ve have blitzed our vay across Europe eh Eva?

[Eva smiles. The Jones’s look at each other]

Mr. Jones:
What are you driving?

Fittler:
A Volkswagon.

Mr. Jones:
Nice.

Mrs. Jones:
Ooh Darling, that reminds me. You did get fully comprehensive European car insurance didn’t you?

[To Fittlers]

We had a little bump on the way here.

Mr. Jones:
Yes dear. I got it with Churchill

[Fittler snaps his pencil point. He looks disgusted at Mr. Jones but takes another pencil out and continues]

Fittler:
Eva my dear. ‘Tips hot liquid from mouth with force’. Four and four. First letter ‘s’

Mrs. Jones:
Ooh I’m good at these. Hmmm…..got it! Spit Fire.

[Fittler breaks another pencil point. Looks disgusted at Mrs. Jones. He stands]

Fittler:
Zat voz ze final solution!

[Walks out of dining room]

Fittler:
Freulein Goosestepping, fire up ze gas oven.

I'm not sure the last line is truly neccessary. It doesn't fit all that well with the rest of the skit. It's quite good, and nicely paced, but not hugely original.

Maybe the punch is a new guest turns up, and it's Stalin. They get in a punch up?

Maybe he gives Eva a aspirin for her headache, it's cyanide. He say's oh not again and shoots himself.

The guest confronts them, and they turn out to be Jewish.

Hope you don't mind suggestions!

That's why I posted it :) Cheers Soots

Laughing out loud

A couple of good LOL gags there Roscoff.

I see you've edited it before I read it (WHY DO PEOPLE DO THAT?)
so I don't know if the "last line" is there - but you should obviously have finished on the last solution.

Yep obvious now reading back. Cheers.

Not cyanide again?? I thought you could only take it once Sooty?? This sketch is a great and genuinely funny idea with lots of potential. The references to gas ovens sort of lowers it to something darker, which I think detracts from it's potential silliness. Did I just agree with sootyj?? Oh f**k!

good sketch and idea.

Quote: DIKTURNIP @ March 21, 2008, 10:01 PM

Not cyanide again?? I thought you could only take it once Sooty?? This sketch is a great and genuinely funny idea with lots of potential. The references to gas ovens sort of lowers it to something darker, which I think detracts from it's potential silliness. Did I just agree with sootyj?? Oh f**k!

1 By now they'd both be extremely old, and probably unrecognisable

2 Maybe they're clones ala Boys from Brazil

Sooty I don't understand that last post??????? Yes they'd both be unrecognisable but as you intimated there could be a whole back story which of course is never explained. How does that tie in with the quote. Am I thick? Don't answer that!

I liked the last line and there was only one line I groaned at which was the Churchill one. Good sketch

It does feel a little contrived that line doesn't it? Keep going guys and one day I'll have a decent sketch. Co-written by BCG! :)

Not bad, but it takes it's time getting going. I'd shorten the preamble by getting shot of the hotel owner and just having them having to share the last table. The Churchill joke was contrived but I liked the final solution gag. Another crossword joke I might add!

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