British Comedy Guide

Scene 1 & 2: 'Aardon & Lara - A Modern Farce

SCENE ONE.
EXT. LONDON UNDERGROUND STATION. A WELL DRESSED YOUNG COUPLE ARE SAT WAITING FOR THE TUBE. THE YOUNG MANS DESIGNER T-SHIRT BEARS THE LEGEND: ‘PENSION SORTED!'

‘AARDON:
Our gardener's a Venezuelan. His family live near a live volcano, and he needs money desperately to help them move away. He works for next to nothing here even though he's got a degree in Business Studies!

LARA: (KISSES ‘AARDON)
Oh ‘Aardon, it's so good of your family to help. You're so (BEAT) Middle Class!

THEY KISS PASSIONATELY MAKING GENTLE SLOBBERING NOISES.

LARA:
Mmmm.. you're so nice.. and different.. the guys at work just treat me like a sex object!

'AARDON: (CAREFULLY)
Lara.. have you ever thought of giving up Escorting?

LARA: (DREAMILY)
Mmm.. ..might.. with the right arrangement.. do you know, for £50 extra you could have.. oh, sorry 'Aardon..

SCENE 2.
LATER. INT. A POSH SITTING ROOM. A POSH OLDER LADY GREETS 'AARDON (HER SON) AND LARA.

MUMMY:
Hello, my dears!

'AARDON:
Mummy, may I introduce Lara. We're getting married.. well, I mean, we're going to have an 'arrangement'.. and I'll need daddy to increase my allowance..

MUMMY EYES LARA UP AND DOWN AND TURNS TO 'AARDON.

MUMMY:
Well, this is all very sudden, but of course you'll need more money if you're setting up home together..

'AARDON:
Will I! She costs £1,000 per week!

LARA: (DIRECTLY TO MUMMY)
Mummy, I offer a truly sensual Girl Friend Experience, come and be enveloped in my inviting busom, let me wrap myself around you, taste my pouting, sexy lips then feel my hot mouth on..

A POSH OLDER MAN ('AARDON'S FATHER) ENTERS THE ROOM.

DADDY: (SEES LARA)
Good grief, 'Miss Whiplash of Romford!'

HE FALLS TO HIS KNEES AT LARA'S FEET. LARA ADOPTS AN IMPERIOUS STANCE.

LARA:
Kiss the soles of my shoes, slave.. I mean.. (PAUSE) oh, my dear old 'Rooster', that was a different lifetime..

LARA TURNS AWAY AND HANGS HER HEAD. MUMMY TURNS TO DADDY THEN BURSTS INTO TEARS.

MUMMY:
'Old Rooster!?' How could you, Reginald.. I thought you were my 'iddy, biddy toodlums'.. *SOBS*

'AARDON:
Miss Whiplash?! (BEAT) of Romford? Lara, how could you.. I mean.. Romford?

LARA: (HURT)
It was a begining.. then I was 'Trupti of Tooting' but they said it was wrong to black up.

MUMMY RECOVERS HER POSH COMPOSURE AND TURNS TO LARA.

MUMMY:
By any chance are you bi, my dear?

LARA: (BRIGHTENS)
Why yes, I was 'Angel Vagina' and I was so happy then ..my clients were mature and genteel ladies of wealth!

MUMMY: (SMILING)
Then shall we go, my dear?

MUMMY AND LARA LINK ARMS AND SLOPE OFF GRACEFULLY. 'AARDON AND HIS FATHER LOOK NON-PLUSSED AS THEIR TROUSERS START TO FALL DOWN.

END OF SCENE.

loved this :)

Good stuff Frankie.

Funny and nice strong characters.

It's funny because you seem to have a really strong sense of why you're saying.

Sorry, did nothing for me. It reads like a bad imitation of Joe Orton.

kjs

Quote: KJSmyling @ September 21 2008, 2:36 PM BST

Sorry, did nothing for me. It reads like a bad imitation of Joe Orton.

Me too - plus Carry on/ Confessions Of/Come Play With Me, etc (bad imitations of, that is). Aardon?? Why not Everard? - Oh that's been done. Shut that door!

Quote: KJSmyling @ September 21 2008, 2:36 PM BST

Sorry, did nothing for me. It reads like a bad imitation of Joe Orton.

kjs

I shall have to read some Orton then to find out what I'm badly imitating! :)

Quote: Morrace @ September 21 2008, 8:07 PM BST

Me too - plus Carry on/ Confesions Of/Come Play With Me, etc (bad imitations of, that is). Aardon?? Why not Everard? - Oh that's been done. Shut that door!

The name 'Aardon is just an in-joke for those in the know (not you, clearly) ;)

I'll change the name from 'Aardon to something else later. Probably something like, erm.. Aaron?

Thanks to everybody for all comments, postive and negative.

Frankie xxx :)

Quote: Frankie Rage @ September 21 2008, 8:22 PM BST

I shall have to read some Orton then to find out what I'm badly imitating! :)

Fair comment on Joe Orton ('Loot', 'Entertaining Mr Sloane'). However, I also said:

Quote: Morrace @ September 21 2008, 8:07 PM BST

Me too - plus Carry on/ Confessions Of/Come Play With Me, etc (bad imitations of, that is).

-- so on the same token, I suggest you check out 'Carry on/ Confessions Of/Come Play With Me series as well, post-haste.

Quote: Frankie Rage @ September 21 2008, 8:22 PM BST

The name 'Aardon is just an in-joke for those in the know (not you, clearly).

Oh I see ....'Aardon' = 'Aaron' = - hilarious. *gets up from floor laughing hysterically*. In that case, for my benefit - and any others not privvy to your in-jokes; could you please asterisk them or just put, e.g. 'Aardon (in-joke)' - so that in future you won't be accused of using silly, obvious, naff double entendres.

Quote: Morrace @ September 21 2008, 10:35 PM BST

Fair comment on Joe Orton ('Loot', 'Entertaining Mr Sloane'). However, I also said:

-- so on the same token, I suggest you check out 'Carry on/ Confessions Of/Come Play With Me series as well, post-haste.

I will Morrace, I will. Mind you, I don't really rate the 'Confessions of' that I have seen so if my piece of work is a 'bad imitation' of that, then that's fine be me! :P

Quote: Morrace @ September 21 2008, 10:35 PM BST

Oh I see ....'Aardon' = 'Aaron' = - hilarious. *gets up from floor laughing hysterically*. In that case, for my benefit - and any others not privvy to your in-jokes; could you please asterix them or just put, e.g. 'Aardon (in-joke)' - so that in future you won't be accused of using silly, obvious, naff double entendres.

Sorry, I thought the 'Aardon/Aaron reference was pretty obvious and would have been picked up by most BSG peeps 'radar' ..not that I was bothered whether it was or not.

As for whether it's funny or not well, that's down to personal taste.

I have considered carefully your request for me to to mark my scripts up with atersisks and notes for your benefit. I am afraid I would find that too tiresome but thanks for taking the trouble to ask. :)

Quote: Frankie Rage @ September 22 2008, 12:46 AM BST

I have considered carefully your request for me to to mark my scripts up with atersisks and notes for your benefit.

I actually said: 'for my benefit - and any others not privvy to your in-jokes'.

Quote: Morrace @ September 22 2008, 1:28 AM BST

I actually said: 'for my benefit - and any others not privvy to your in-jokes'.

Maybe so, but they are not requesting specifically marked-up scripts.

If you'd care to chase me around the boating lake I might agree to your request and/or "requests"..

*titters*

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