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A completely unfunny sketch

I'm bored, here is a sketch.

[Grainy footage of President Kennedy's motorcade travelling along the streets of Texas. Kennedy and his wife are smiling and waving to the assembled throng.]

VO:

On 22 November 1963 in Fort Worth Texas, Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President John F. Kennedy...

[Lee Harvey Oswald is in the Book Depository building holding a rifle and looking agitated]

VO:

...but what a lot of people didn't know...is that Lee Harvey Oswald was twenty five percent Austrailian.

[Jungle Boogie plays in the background, Lee Harvey Oswald looks to camera, smiles and takes a swig out of a can of Fosters. He fires his rifle out of the window several times and then drinks more Fosters and does a little dance.]

VO:

Unfortunately for Lee...

[Lee Harvey Oswald is in handcuffs and being led away by police as pressmen take his photograph. He is smiling and wearing a Fosters t-shirt. Jack Ruby appraoches.}

VO:

...Jack Ruby was one hundred percent Mafia.

[Jack Ruby shoots Oswald dead}

VO:

Fosters Lager - Get some Austrailian in you.

[quick flash of two men wearing hats with corks on them holding rifles on the grassy gnoll and clinking their cans of Fosters together and smiling.]

THE END

"...Jack Ruby was one hundred percent Mafia."

Could just change "Mafia" to "American"?

I think this is ace a very neat clever sketch and funny.

But somehow the 100% Mafia doesn't feel like the strongest punchline.

I liked this a lot. I wouldn't change anything personally. Nice one Renegade

I'd change Fort Worth to Dallas.

I'm not sure If I'm missing something, but It's a funny image.
I guess it's based on an Advert or something, I'll have to look it up.

Ok, Found a couple of ads.
Perhaps I'm being a bit Dumb.

Would someone mind explaining this one to me please.

This ticks all the boxes. Very clever. You're not a copywriter are you Renegade? :D

I did a chuckle :) Good stuff.

I liked it too. Although I think changing it to American instead of Mafia would be better as well. Good stuff. I think I'm going to go grab a beer now.

Very good - I'd keep the Mafia reference though, more brutal.

Crikey, thank you for the response. I don't normally post in 'Critique' as I'm a complete hypocrite - I can dish it out but I can't take it.

*RC runs back off to the other forums where he feels less naked*

You sell it well in the title!

I like the idea, but not completly sure that it comes off.

Excellent parody of current ads RC.

Doesn't need much to be the finished article.

Marvelous stuff there Mr. R.C. Very nice indeed.

May I rub your crotch in approval?

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