If you can direct a parrot to attack a man in the face, then fine.
Not the parrot sketch. Page 2
Maybe I heard it in my head?
Quote: Ben @ May 9 2009, 11:14 PM BSTIf you can direct a parrot to attack a man in the face, then fine.
If you can direct a giant ape to fight off airplanes on the top of The Empire State Building, then fine.
Well yes, Morrace, but the preceding narrative had a bit more clout than this sketch to justify it.
Sorry, Ben! I've just Googled 'CGI'.
I feel such a fool! I got confused with 'Parrot CSI' - foren-sick as a... 
Quote: Morrace @ May 9 2009, 11:49 PM BSTI got confused with 'Parrot CSI' - foren-sick as a...
Now THAT'S funny! 
Quote: Ben @ May 9 2009, 11:05 PM BSTI don't think there's enough laugh out loud moments along the way to justify paying for a CGI parrot.
Is this a new standard by which we judge sketches? How much would Ben be willing to pay on special effects? Do I atleast rate a glove puppet or maybe a parrot shaped balloon?
For the record I invisage it being a glove puppet parrot and the robber punches the shop assisstant in the testicles with it.
Quote: sootyj @ May 10 2009, 12:21 AM BSTFor the record I invisage it being a glove puppet parrot and the robber punches the shop assisstant in the testicles with it.
That wasn't in your directions though was it! There's only so much that the reader can assume!
Quote: sootyj @ May 10 2009, 12:21 AM BSTIs this a new standard by which we judge sketches? How much would Ben be willing to pay on special effects? Do I atleast rate a glove puppet or maybe a parrot shaped balloon?
Maybe during an episode of The Young Ones, but these days?
Look no one's ever going to produce it are they?
If it was ever to get produced I'd paint muyself green and play the parrot myself.
Doesn't the UK have free to air "community stations", where anyone with a camera and studio (and computer for editing) can make a show and get it broadcast if it's any good?
Graeme Garden of The Goodies was the unsurpassed master in realistically bringing to life toy animals and glove-puppets.
Yes even to this day people think Bill Oddie is a real person.
Quote: Ben @ May 9 2009, 11:05 PM BSTI don't think there's enough laugh out loud moments along the way to justify paying for a CGI parrot.
Sorry Ben, but you lost me there... although I'll admit that's pretty easy to do, as I'm not the fastest car on the grid.
Since when has potential production costs been a criteria for crit in this forum? I've seen sketches here that would require a small movie budget and no one's ever brought up finance as a reason to discount them... in my fading memory, that is.
Quote: Ben @ May 9 2009, 11:14 PM BSTIf you can direct a parrot to attack a man in the face, then fine.
Jack in Father Ted, Alfred Titchcock, both got around that problem with varying effect and budget.
Quote: sootyj @ May 10 2009, 8:09 AM BSTYes even to this day people think Bill Oddie is a real person.
Has anyone here read Bill Oddie's autobiography One Flew into the Cuckoo's Egg? When I noticed it in a bookstore last year I was ready to buy it straight away, but flicked through it and read a few pages, and put it back on the shelf. It seemed like a lot of egotistical pap - without any funny anecdotes about The Goodies or other entertainers of that vintage.
Quote: Ben @ May 9 2009, 11:05 PM BSTI don't think there's enough laugh out loud moments along the way to justify paying for a CGI parrot.
I think The Wrong Door has demonstrated that there is no correlation between the willingness to pay for CGI and the quality of the pay off.
Oi get back to praising and venerating me!
That's quite enough about ruddy CGI.