My NJ Sketch - read it, it's topical! Page 2

Quote: Renegade Carpark @ January 25 2010, 11:16 PM GMT

My sketch isn't about having a pop about those who've submitted jokes to Newsjack, it's about the overwhelmingly bland, obvious and mirthless sketches they impose on the listening audience. (Not the stuff submitted by BCG Members, obviously)

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Damn I thought it was a pop at my sausage machine topical sketches.

Oh well me and my big head.

Nice sketch though (if a little long) but pacy lots of gags and isn't it ironic.
Love to see some more of your sketches.

Quote: Renegade Carpark @ January 25 2010, 11:40 PM GMT

I knew I should have written a sketch about 'Grand Designs: Haiti', it seems taking the piss out of dead foreigners is less controversial then poking fun at Newsjack.

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Oh and 48 posts calling me an insensitive twunt. Seems I still take the offensive biscuit and slam dunk it in the tea of controversy.

Quote: Morrace @ January 26 2010, 1:27 AM GMT

That's because dead foreigners aren't looking for topics relevant to the week's news.

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That's both patronising and racist. I believe Rory Bremner is going around the hospitals of Haiti right now helaing people with his impersonation of Tony Blair at Chilcott.

Hmm why not try sending this to News Revue? I think they'd go for it.

Quote: Morrace @ January 26 2010, 1:27 AM GMT

That's because dead foreigners aren't looking for topics relevant to the week's news.

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Quote: sootyj @ January 26 2010, 7:32 AM GMT

That's both patronising and racist.

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That's a really hurtful thing to say.

Some of my best friends are dead foreigners.

And that's why you're never welcome at Royal funerals.

Quote: sootyj @ January 26 2010, 8:10 AM GMT

And that's why you're never welcome at Royal funerals.

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But you'll let me come to yours, won't you?

Um, I liked it.

The hand that feeds can consider itself gummed.

Ah, the outrage, indignation and full on hatred continues!

'You dare speak out against our Lord God Newsjack?! Kill the infidel! Alalalalalalalala!'

Bit mystified why some Members have taken my 'tongue-in-cheek' parody of Newsjack so personally. I'm even more mystified why they have reacted so angrily.

As Badge has pointed out, I have attended a recording of Newsjack and even submitted material - does that mean I am being disloyal? Disloyal to what exactly? How much loyalty has been extended my way to demand such alliegance?

Are they worried that my gentle ribbing of a BBC radio show with an open door policy on a public forum will make the commissioning gods angry? Will they cancel their overly generous remit to broadcast a couple of Voxpops per week from the prolitariate?

Again, I think I'm the victim of 'misplaced rage'. I realise that a lot of BCG'ers spend their week trawling the newspapers, news programmes and websites to find a topical news story gem - only to have their hopes dashed on the rocks of Newsjackery, week in, week out, by some unknown force.

It's a shame, it really is, but I'm not the villain here. So perspective people, perspective. What is the big picture and why are you angry at me?

Quote: Griff @ January 26 2010, 7:12 PM GMT

Your sketch wasn't funny or clever

Twas both! (and Topical!)

Go write your second Sitcom Mission episode instead.

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Half way through second episode now, I was struck with inspiration last night. Wait, is this what the argument is about? Newsjack vs Sitcom Mission? Really Griff? Hey, I'm a pretty petty guy, but I'm not that petty. Wow, there's a whole inference here that I've totally missed. I can see how you could have got the wrong end of the stick.

If anyone is to be pillaried, then surely it must be the talented Jane P, as she's had success with both Newsjack and Sitcom Mission...burn the comedy witch! (Or give her a contract!).

Though you no longer love me, I still love you Griff, you wacky paranoid funster! <3

Quote: Griff @ January 26 2010, 7:12 PM GMT

So don't be surprised when we don't all queue up to blow you for being so cool and iconoclastic.

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*RC is suprised that no one is blowing him right now*

I liked it, on a few levels. I liked the way it was a topical sketch about a topical show, that seemed refreshing. Also, while I think the Newsjack shows have now improved an awful lot, after listening again to the first of this series I was reminded of just how weak most of the sketches were, and I think this spoof hits its targets pretty accurately. As for the punch, I was wondering to what extent this might be true before I'd even read the sketch, so I thought it was very apt.

I'm not sure why people are so upset by it. Why not poke fun at this institution?

Quote: Renegade Carpark @ January 26 2010, 6:52 PM GMT

Kill the infidel! Alalalalalalalala!'

What is the big picture and why are you angry at me?

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I for one, am angry at you for the abrupt way you ended your therapy sessions; for storming out of my office with no warning whatsoever! I don't care what your excuses are. I am appalled that all we worked on in therapy will now be to no avail - and that you just seem to think that all my work on your 'problems' can be picked up by an unqualified Bosnian 'pimp'. Even my colleagues are disgusted at your behaviour - and yes, I told them exactly the squalid things that (I guess) led up to your walking out of our therapy sessions. My young secretary (Petal) still has nightmares about you and some nights she wakes up crying because she "just wants Renegade" - she is inconsolable, and I hate telling the poor girl that you're not coming back.

I sincerely hope this doesn't send you 'over the edge' - but you did ask.

Quote: Griff @ January 26 2010, 7:42 PM GMT

I just mentioned SM because I thought it was pretty rich you dismissing NJ for having an audience of wannabe writers, when you are about to have your own work on at SM which is exactly the same. But anyway.

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When I wrote my highly satrical, funny and clever parody of Newsjack, it was to convey my dislike of their bland, balls free, brand of dull, predictable and often juvenille comedy 'entertainment'.

As a radio show on it's own two feet (forget the open door policy for a moment) it is lacklustre and generally weak as topical news entertainment shows go. There aren't many people I know who would listen to it unless they had a vested interest. Hence my remark.

Though there might be some parallels between NJ and SM, one of them is a topical sketch show paid for and broadcast at the taxpayers' expense. The other is a showcase of brand new sitcoms, held on stage to be viewed by a voluntarily paying audience. They really are quite, quite different.

But we are each entitled to our opinions.

(P.S. I still love you <3 )

Quote: Morrace @ January 26 2010, 7:50 PM GMT

My young secretary (Petal) still has nightmares about you and some nights she wakes up crying because she "just wants Renegade" - she is inconsolable, and I hate telling the poor girl that you're not coming back.

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(P.P.S. I still lover her too )

Quote: Griff @ January 26 2010, 7:42 PM GMT

It makes you look as thick as them.

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Evening Standard, "Pret A Manger to sell homosexual sandwiches, who would buy something so depraved?"

Quote: Leevil @ January 26 2010, 5:30 PM GMT

Um, I liked it.

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Quote: Morrace @ January 26 2010, 7:50 PM GMT

I for one, am angry at you for the abrupt way you ended your therapy sessions; for storming out of my office with no warning whatsoever! I don't care what your excuses are. I am appalled that all we worked on in therapy will now be to no avail - and that you just seem to think that all my work on your 'problems' can be picked up by an unqualified Bosnian 'pimp'. Even my colleagues are disgusted at your behaviour - and yes, I told them exactly the squalid things that (I guess) led up to your walking out of our therapy sessions. My young secretary (Petal) still has nightmares about you and some nights she wakes up crying because she "just wants Renegade" - she is inconsolable, and I hate telling the poor girl that you're not coming back.

I sincerely hope this doesn't send you 'over the edge' - but you did ask.

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Morrace if you don't stop using the Kingscross disabled shitter as a pretend therapy clinic, then SCOPE are going to kick you up the bum.

And as for your coleagues...they're pigeons stop feeding them please, do you like being permanently coated in avian feces?

Yours sincerely Boris Johnson(Mrs)
London Mayor and lovable rascal

Quote: Griff @ January 26 2010, 8:03 PM GMT

Right. Didn't you also state that "nobody is interested in the Iraq enquiry".

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Yes, except perhaps disgruntled geography teachers who went round with placards that said 'Not in my Name!' - Christ the ego on some people, 'let's not invade Iraq Mr. President, Brian Meerkat who teaches 4B in Cricklewood doesn't want his name attached to our war.'

The 'inquiry' is just a toothless bit of bandwagoning to give the pretence that justice is being served. It's a sham. It's only of interest to the political point scoring insiders and their moronic band of sneering lackeys - ie. the newpapers and the 24 hour news networks who get to fill up loads of air time now that the snow has buggered off.

I do wish to make one correction - we should pillary both Jane P and SwerytD for being so ubiquitously talented and successful - damn them!

Quote: sootyj @ January 26 2010, 8:14 PM GMT

Morrace if you don't stop using the Kingscross disabled shitter as a pretend therapy clinic, then SCOPE are going to kick you up the bum.

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My Geography teacher Mrs Probabela Atomicabombs and her colleague Mz Fourtifiva Minute_Waring may have had more of a point than most.

Who did a sketch parodying the acting style in satrical radio shows - you know the way their voices always go 'up' at the end? (or did I imagine it?)