Thank you all so much for this. Many of you have obviously given up a good portion of your writing time for this. Hang your procrastinating heads in shame!
I have my favourites and I'm sure Lee will have his totally opposing ones. Hopefully there will be some crossover though. Rest assured that if any of your suggestions fires up the big man at C4 there's a couple of beers in it for you.
A gay fashion student (think Gok Wan) from the local college is hired as the make-up artist, but applying his wacky trendy ideas to the corpses ends in hilarious consequences (but not for the grieving families)
You must pitch this new reality TV show How To Look Good Dead to C4 immediately. It's got their name all over it.
Quote: Griff @ October 15 2008, 2:05 PM BSTYou must pitch this new reality TV show How To Look Good Dead to C4 immediately. It's got their name all over it.
Ha, I know one of the directors of HTLGN very well.
Quote: David Bussell @ October 15 2008, 1:58 PM BSTOne of Lee's, that.
Do I get the prize for the most suggestions you have already tried?
Quote: Seefacts @ October 15 2008, 1:55 PM BST*steals idea and sells to ITV*
Good luck. In Living Memory. https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/loving_memory/
(And yes I know - well, hope - you weren't being serious.)
Quote: Seefacts @ October 15 2008, 1:59 PM BSTSurely EVERYONE know the term corpsing thanks to Dennis Norden?
We'll co-write it Griff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICrnI3YLXec&feature=related
Quote: Marc P @ October 15 2008, 2:22 PM BSTDo I get the prize for the most suggestions you have already tried?
You most certainly do.
SpectrAppeal
Spectre -Acular
Good Will Haunting
Agony Haunts
On Spectre
Abra-Macabre
Ever Afterlife
Bogeyhenman & Incubussell
Hell & Goodbye
In the Dead of Nightmares
Absoulutely Macabrulous
Blood & Tuts
Quote: swerytd @ October 15 2008, 2:39 PM BSTBogeyhenman & Incubussell
That did make me laugh.
On A Sunny Afterlife
Lazy Afterlife
Afterlife You've Gone
Afterlife's Been Said and Done
Afterlife Wiedersehnn Pet Cemetary
Quote: Lee Henman @ October 15 2008, 2:27 PM BSThttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICrnI3YLXec&feature=related
If the BBC can 're-make' Rising Damp, then I'm sure In Loving Memory is in need of an update (Lord knows it was when it first aired. A contender for one of the most depressing comedies ever).
Quote: swerytd @ October 15 2008, 2:45 PM BSTOn A
Afterlife Wiedersehnn Pet Cemetary
Stephen King of the Haunted Castle
Sixth Seance
Seance of the Unknown
Shock of Your Afterlife
Morning Gory
Jackagory
Hunky Gory
At this point I imagine Dan slick with flopsweat, fingers worn to palsied nubs, any second about to lapse into a coma.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ October 15 2008, 2:46 PM BSTIf the BBC can 're-make' Rising Damp, then I'm sure In Loving Memory is in need of an update (Lord knows it was when it first aired. A contender for one of the most depressing comedies ever).
Quite probable. I wouldn't have said depressing, but it's not an example of great comedy.
But then Fun At The Funeral Parlour wasn't too long ago, and it strikes me as the kind of territory which channels wouldn't want to enter all too often.
Comedy Cortege
Jest In Peace
Deadpan