NJ: The Circus

And another NJ rejection

GRAMS:CIRCUS MUSIC; EG. 'ENTRANCE OF THE GLADIATORS'

PRESENTERV.O.) Welcome back. Mr Blair has now been speaking for some two hours at the Enquiry and he now seems to be addressing a period of fairly intense questioning. Listen…

GRAMS:FADE OUT, 2 SECONDS

TONY BLAIR:…about a lie or a conspiracy or a deceit or a deception. It's a decision. I had to take the decision.

FX:INT. MONKEYS SHOUTING AND SCREAMING

TONY BLAIRRESPONDS) …if there was any possibility that he could develop weapons of mass destruction we should stop him.

FX:INT. MONKEYS SHOUTING AND SCREAMING

TONY BLAIRRESPONDS)… a second resolution was obviously going to make life a lot easier, politically and in every respect.

PERSON IN BACKGROUND #1: Liar!

PERSON IN BACKGROUND #2: Murderer!

FX:INT. MONKEYS SHOUTING AND SCREAMING

GRAMS:CIRCUS MUSIC; EG. 'ENTRANCE OF THE GLADIATORS'. FADE TO END

END

J

I'm not convinced that painting Blair as some sort of 'victim' of the enquiry was ever likely to fly as a sketch idea.

Yeah, didn't really work for me either.

For any 'Miles' intro, you need to stick some sort of joke in there.

Dan

Quote: Afinkawan @ February 4 2010, 1:17 PM GMT

I'm not convinced that painting Blair as some sort of 'victim' of the enquiry was ever likely to fly as a sketch idea.

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It wasnt my intention to paint Blair as a victim here. What I was trying to do was highlight the ridicululousness of the whole thing being a 'circus'.

I was trying to show that no matter what the 'monkeys' asked him at Chilcot he would just trot his pre-prepared answers.

Thanks for you advice tho. I have noticed that in most of my sketches I really need to work on the 'set up' better - set the scene better.

J