Trying to find radio sketch about crazy deals

I'm wondering if anyone will be able to place this radio sketch:

In the style of a high-energy radio ad, Crazy So-and-so is shouting at you at the top of his lungs, advertising his warehouse where prices are such a good deal it's literally insane. They even give things away. Refrigerators for a dollar, etc. I believe it maybe ends with something out of left field like monkeys being loose in the warehouse.

Later in the episode, there's a follow-up sketch. Same guy advertising his warehouse, but no longer yelling. He now sounds very measured and sane. His friends staged an intervention because it got too crazy. He went bankrupt. He's reformed now. Everything is now reasonably priced so that he makes a bit of a profit.

I heard this when hopping between a lot of radio sketch and now can't figure out where I heard it. I thought maybe either The Burkiss Way or The Nether Regions, but haven't found it again when retracing my steps.

It sounds vaguely familiar but I can't place it. John Finnermore's Souvenir Programme or That Mitchell and Webb Sound maybe?

Quote: chipolata @ 30th September 2022, 8:47 PM

It sounds vaguely familiar but I can't place it. John Finnermore's Souvenir Programme or That Mitchell and Webb Sound maybe?

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I love both of those! But no, not in either of those according to my memory and their sketch lists. https://www.reddit.com/r/MitchellAndWebb/comments/t99ptl/that_mitchell_webb_sound_sketch_lists http://johnfinnemore.blogspot.com/2018/03/john-finnemores-souvenir-programme.html

Sure it's radio? I feel That Mitchell & Webb Look is a possible contender.

I'm sure it was audio-only, yeah. I was beginning to doubt myself, but my wife remembers hearing it too. (She doesn't remember which show it was either, of course.)

That Mitchell and Webb Look often recycled That Mitchell and Webb Sound sketches, so it could well have featured on both.

I recall Radio Active did a spoof advert along these lines

Seems like a bunch of us have had the same idea. When my sketch group did our first show, we had some prerecorded radio sketches at the start and end of each half, featuring this chap. I appreciate this doesn't answer your questions, but here you go anyway.

[GRAMS: TINNY, CHEESY RADIO ADVERT BED RUNS UNDERNEATH THE FOLLOWING]

BILLY: [Talks in the excited manner of a local car dealer on US TV] Hi! I'm Crazy Billy!

You've heard of mad, well I'm completely preposterous! Deranged! Maniacal!

Literally clinically ill! Why not come and visit my place on the Great South Road just

off junction 47 of Interstate 152? [Off] Was that alright? I can do it again, if you like;

with my pants on?

[FX: BURST OF STATIC]

[GRAMS: SAME BED AS PREVIOUSLY]

BILLY:Hi! I'm Crazy Billy! Why not come visit me just off Junction 47 of interstate 152?
[Mad falsetto] Why the heck should we Crazy Billy? [Normal] I'm darned sure you'll
lick your lips and love me, that's why! [Falsetto] We love you, Crazy Billy [Normal]
Exactly! Thanks. [Falsetto] You're welcome. [Normal] Sure, er, fine, whatever.
But I say, it ain't enough just to love Crazy Billy! You've got to adore him, worship
him, get down on your kne- [Falsetto] Billy, do you need us for anything else?
[Normal] No, you can go. Thanks. Erm, yes...get down on your knees and pray to
the craziest Billy you're ever gonna goshdarned meet, just off Junction 47 of
interstate 152.

[GRAMS: SAME BED AS PREVIOUSLY. IT RUNS OUT BEFORE THE END OF THE SPEECH]

BILLY:Hi! I'm Crazy Billy! Just off Junction 47 of interstate 152. Do you want a cheap,

reliable Daihatsu? Doesn't everyone want cheap, reliable Diahatsus? Do I have

cheap, reliable Daihatsus? No, I don't. But sometimes I think I do. Sometimes I

dream of them all day long, a fleet of cheap Daihatsus to escort me from my misery

like a king on a reasonably priced Japanese mobile throne. Sometimes I sit in the

dark, just off Junction 47 of Interstate 152, rocking back and forth, chanting the word

"Daihatsu", grasping at the hope that just one time it will be the magic word and

unlock me from this hideous prison. If I, Crazy Billy, could have just one wish from the

Daihatsu deity it would be to lift me away from my torment to the highest heaven on

wispy diaphanous clouds with central locking and the option of heated seats.

[FX: STATIC BURST]

[GRAMS: SAME BED AS PREVIOUSLY. IT SOUNDS WOOZILY REVERBED AND RUNS AT THE WRONG SPEED]

BILLY:[Slurred] Hi. I'm Crazy Billy. Why not come and visit my place on the Great South

Road just off junction 47 of Interstate 152? Come quickly. I took all the yellow pills.

Help me. Please, Daihatsu, help me. Sweet sleep, come silence the hounds in my

head. Bury me with a sunroof and the optional walnut veneer. Just off Junction 47

[Fading] of Interstate 152.

[FX: BED RUNS TO A HALT. FINAL LONG STATIC BURST]

Well, the formatting seems to have gone Billy-level bonkers, but never mind.

Quote: DavidAccola @ 30th September 2022, 6:03 AM

I'm wondering if anyone will be able to place this radio sketch:

In the style of a high-energy radio ad, Crazy So-and-so is shouting at you at the top of his lungs, advertising his warehouse where prices are such a good deal it's literally insane. They even give things away. Refrigerators for a dollar, etc. I believe it maybe ends with something out of left field like monkeys being loose in the warehouse.

Later in the episode, there's a follow-up sketch. Same guy advertising his warehouse, but no longer yelling. He now sounds very measured and sane. His friends staged an intervention because it got too crazy. He went bankrupt. He's reformed now. Everything is now reasonably priced so that he makes a bit of a profit.

I heard this when hopping between a lot of radio sketch and now can't figure out where I heard it. I thought maybe either The Burkiss Way or The Nether Regions, but haven't found it again when retracing my steps.

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Was it a British show? You mention there's a line about selling a "refrigerator for a dollar" - was a UK show doing a sketch in the style of a US advert?

Could it be Blue Jam by Chris Morris? That had a lot of varied sketches.