Quote: sootyj @ May 29 2008, 4:17 PM BSTdecent skit, and very dark, oddly wnough works better with men in my view.
that said, did no one like my "millions like huss," one liner.
If it makes you feel any better, I'm not clever enough to get it.
This is my greatest thing I done. Page 2
Me eever.
Millions like us, World War 2 Propaganda film, about people bearing up.
Huss a densely fleshed fish, that the gouvernment encouraged people to eat in World War 2
Hence satirical film title.
Millions like Huss.
I don't care I think it's the bestest thing I wrote ever.
Ha! Millions Like Huss! I get it!
The Snoeking room
One room sitcom about people at work, forced to eat snoek in a small room
Queer as snoek
FIshy drama about gay south African fish living their lives.
Henry's fith and chips
Hilarious Will Hay stutter film from the 1940s, the fith being snoek, a boney South African fish.
We jive for prawns.
Moralistic 1940s WW2 propaganda film, about women doing 1930s Jazz dance in exchange for prawns from spivs. Joyce Grenfell plays plaucky heroine who persuades them to eat snook instead.
Colonel skimp Snook
Alex Korda warning film, about officer refusing to eat Snook (he's shot for insubordination)
Das Boon
Elphick.....wrong thread
The first thing that made me think I could write was this sketch:
https://www.comedy.co.uk/forums/thread/3874
It was quite early on in my ‘writing’ career, so there are a lot of things wrong with the sketch i.e. overwritten, unrealistic lines of dialogue etc, but I was very happy with the structure of the punchline:
Winston: Well sir, I do have those photos of you having sex with your racehorse.
Lord Jerry: You blackmailing little scroat. You wouldn’t dare.
Winston: You want a bet, sir?
Lord Jerry: (Quietly) No.
Winston: And why’s that, sir?
Lord Jerry: (Defeated) Because last time I lost a bet with you I had to have sex with a horse. (Sighs) I’m buggered aren’t I
Winston: Quite literally, sir. (GIVES A CHEEKY WINK)
THE END
A top producer told me this week that he liked the punchline to this one. The rest no so much though. A rewrite is on the cards!
The tv drama I'm working on now would be my best achievement in terms of television scriptwriting and the novel I completed last year.
Quote: Griff @ May 30 2008, 2:09 PM BSTCan you do another one about "snoek" ?
Staying with wartime films:
In Which We Serve Snoek
Oh very very nice
Triumph of the will to eat Snoek
Nazi propaganda film promoting the eating of Snoek
Mutterliebe Snoeck
Gustave Uckers late WW2 Nazi propaganda film, about love, family, and Snoeck
Quote: Winterlight @ May 30 2008, 7:02 PM BSTThe first thing that made me think I could write was this sketch:
https://www.comedy.co.uk/forums/thread/3874
It was quite early on in my ‘writing’ career, so there are a lot of things wrong with the sketch i.e. overwritten, unrealistic lines of dialogue etc, but I was very happy with the structure of the punchline:
Winston: Well sir, I do have those photos of you having sex with your racehorse.
Lord Jerry: You blackmailing little scroat. You wouldn’t dare.
Winston: You want a bet, sir?
Lord Jerry: (Quietly) No.
Winston: And why’s that, sir?
Lord Jerry: (Defeated) Because last time I lost a bet with you I had to have sex with a horse. (Sighs) I’m buggered aren’t I
Winston: Quite literally, sir. (GIVES A CHEEKY WINK)
THE END
A top producer told me this week that he liked the punchline to this one. The rest no so much though. A rewrite is on the cards!
I think that's a brill sketch, just shows different people's point of view
On a similar note I think my favourite line from EE when a young lad was about to be similarly treated in a prison cell by a burly heavy.
HEAVY: Hold him down lads. This one's a wriggler.
That's a nice line.
But what's EE? Eastenders?
Yes, EastEnders.
Hahah!
Who was the wriggler?