Bad news for Brand

WE SEE A DOCTOR ADDRESSING A PATIENT WHO IS OUT OF SHOT

DOCTOR: So we have the test results and I'm afraid there's no way of dressing it up - it's the worst news imaginable. I'm afraid you have Aids.

SHOT CHANGES TO REVEAL THE PATIENT. MUCH-LOVED COMEDIAN AND ACTOR RUSSELL BRAND.

RUSSELL: Oh crikey, I'm bamboozled as to 'ow that could 'ave 'appened!

DOCTOR: Now this of course has further implications than just your own health. There is the chance you may have passed it on. You're going to need to think about anyone you might have had sexual contact with over the past three years and get in touch to talk it through with them.

RUSSELL: Oh bleedin' ell - my phone bill's going to take a right 'ammering! Of all the bloody high-falutin' brain-scrambling misfortunes that could have befallen little old me!

DOCTOR: Well Mr Brand, I'm afraid this is what can happen if you fail to put a condom on your dingle-dangle.

RUSSELL: Oh luv-a-duck!

ENDS

you should put that in this thread

Skit Comp 11-21.8.10 {critique]

https://www.comedy.co.uk/forums/thread/18420/

Doesn't really work for me, sillysausage. Just a skewering of the way he talks, but not much else.

It's a good written impression of him. Keep up the good work.

I'd disagree, Tim. Brand is quite an easy target and I don't think SS made him flowery enough - especially for a lampoon.

Generally speaking we target familar people, and Brand would fit into this category. How would you make him sound, Ben?

As I said before - not flowery enough. I know the flowery term is perhaps overused when discussing Brand, so maybe the term 'eloquent' would be a better choice. And, of course, take his eloquence to ridiculous extremes rather than just sounding a bit like him.

Also, the first line is rather long and unnatural. I think:

Doctor:
The test results are back and, I'm afraid to say, show that you have the AIDS virus.

Gets the point across quickly. Whether doctors actually use the phrase "I'm afraid to say", I just don't know, but don't think it's life or death.

The punchline needs rethinking too. At the moment, it's ust another Brand-ism which doesn't close the sketch.

I am afraid I agree with Ben that this does not deliver beyond parodying Brand's speech; I am assuming that the punch is intended to be the doctor lapsing into Brand's own speech, by referring to his dingle-dangle, but that is not really enough. (Incidentally, talking about dingle-dangles did I ever mention...)

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I am afraid I agree with Ben

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It comes to us all eventually.

Quote: Timbo @ August 14 2010, 2:54 PM BST

I am afraid I agree with Ben that this does not deliver beyond parodying Brand's speech; I am assuming that the punch is intended to be the doctor lapsing into Brand's own speech, by referring to his dingle-dangle, but that is not really enough. (Incidentally, talking about dingle-dangles did I ever mention...)

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I'm confused, because Ben's actually saying that it's not a good impression. I don't know if it matter whether word 'virus' is used or not, I don't think think the word virus adds anything to the sketch. Certainly the sketch only has his impression, but that's not to say he couldn't do anything with it. And we still haven't had Ben's impression of Russell Brand yet...

Quote: Tim Azure @ August 14 2010, 3:15 PM BST

I'm confused, because Ben's actually saying that it's not a good impression.

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I was agreeing with Ben's first comment. (I don't always agree with Ben.)

To be honest I have never been able to endure listening to Brand long enough to in a position to comment on the accuracy of the impression.

Ok, Tim. It's a cliched impression.

A doctor would never say "You've got AIDS". They'd correctly describe it as the AIDS virus. Which may or may not be too relevant.

Hey well glad my badly received sketch got you all talking about a very important issue.

Now to start work on my new one - in which Jeremy Clarkson loses his wife in a hit-and-run incident involving a speeding Ferrari.

Quote: sillysausage @ August 14 2010, 6:51 PM BST

Now to start work on my new one - in which Jeremy Clarkson loses his wife in a hit-and-run incident involving a speeding Ferrari.

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That's got me smiling already

Quote: Ben @ August 14 2010, 2:50 PM BST

Whether doctors actually use the phrase "I'm afraid to say", I just don't know, but don't think it's life or death.

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This is the funniest bit of the thread, and I rather suspect it was unintentional.