British Comedy Guide

Police Tazers

The police haven't tazered anyone recently so no good for Newsjack.

SARGE: Alright, settle down you lot. Let's get this over and done with.

DOBBS: Why do we need tazer retraining, Sarge?

SARGE: Because, constable, you lot have been a bit…trigger happy with them, especially during peaceful protests.

JONES: Why am I here Sarge? I've never tazered anyone.

SARGE: You are here, Jones, because you embarrassed the force by shooting yourself with your own tazer. Out of interest, how did you manage to do that?

JONES: I was just trying to adjust it like this and I accidentally…

F/X: TAZER ZAP

JONES: GNYAAARRGGHHH!!

F/X: FALLS OFF HIS CHAIR

SARGE: (SIGH)

DOBBS: And why am I here Sarge? The only person I've tazered was a suspected terrorist.

SARGE: No Dobbs, the person you tazered was a perfectly innocent man who just happened to have a beard which made him look a bit like Guy Fawkes. Look – Atkins, Woods and Davis are here because they tazered 47 people at last week's anti-BNP protest. Jones is here because he's an idiot…

JONES: Sorry Sarge, won't happen aga….

F/X: TAZER ZAP

JONES: GNYAAARRGGHHH!!

SARGE: (sigh) …and Wilson is here because the Super caught her using her tazer to heat her lunch up when the canteen microwave broke. Now. Can we please get on with the training?

ALL: Sorry Sarge.

SARGE: Right. Now. When preparing to discharge your tazer, always make absolutely sure that nobody is filming you on their mobile phone. OK, training over. Back to work you lot.

I liked this a lot, nicely amusing. Heating up their lunch Laughing out loud

Has NewsJack suddenly decided to go topical then?

They seem fairly topical. Police tazering people is a few weeks too old to be topical and hasn't happened enough yet to be zeitgeisty.

Fingers crossed for a few more innocent people to get tazered in the next couple of weeks!

Quote: Afinkawan @ July 3 2009, 2:59 PM BST

They seem fairly topical. Police tazering people is a few weeks too old to be topical and hasn't happened enough yet to be zeitgeisty.

Fingers crossed for a few more innocent people to get tazered in the next couple of weeks!

Would you like me to incite a riot, inviting a good number of innocent bystanders to watch?

Quote: Rob H @ July 3 2009, 3:00 PM BST

Would you like me to incite a riot, inviting a good number of innocent bystanders to watch?

Yes please, as long as some of the innocent bystanders manage to film you getting tazered on their mobile phones.

You could get rid of the first couple of lines and mention tazer retraining in the third line, I reckon.

The Guy Fawkes joke isn't particularly funny, I didn't think but it does need a joke there. You could be more provocative ;)

Good sketch though. I did like it despite my complaints!

Dan

I liked it. Sorry Sarge, won't happen again.. Laughing out loud

As said, replace Guy Fawkes with someone contemporary.

Really zippy punch.

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