British Comedy Guide

First sitcom pilot written

Anyone want to read it? I'll post the first few scenes on here for you to have a look at and if you fancy reading some more then PM me.

INT. FLAT LIVING ROOM - MORNING

JOE is asleep on the floor. BRAD sprawled out on the sofa.

SFX: Phone vibrates twice then we hear Carl Douglas "Kung Fu Fighting" play LOUDLY on the phone.

BRAD
(grumpily)
What the f**k?

JOE
(sleepy)
It's retro.

JOE slowly starts to move towards his phone but a FOOT kicks it away.

It is DAN'S FOOT.

JOE
...why?

DAN
Rise and shine.

BRAD
Dan, go away.

DAN
You two are going to get jobs.

BRAD
We have jobs.

DAN
You blog. (to Joe) You... what do you do?

JOE puts his head back in his pillow.

JOE
(muffled)
Music.

DAN
You realise that this isn't Two and a Half Men, right? You can't just sit around being Charlie Sheen all day.

JOE
I don't want to work in a shit job like you.

DAN
I... my job is not shit.

BRAD
You wear a tie. You work for The Man.

DAN
Blaxploitation Bradley - you are a middle-class white man. You are The Man.

BRAD
No, you The Man.

DAN
I'm not having this argument. Either you two get up and find jobs, or else I tell the police that two gay junkies broke in and slept in our living room.

JOE stirs on the rug on which he slept.

JOE
Urgh, fine.

DAN
I'm sorry that this had to come to blackmail.

JOE
You know what else comes to black males?

DAN
Don't.

DAN exits. SAM walks in.

SAM
Wake up!

JOE
We've had the pep talk already.

SAM
Pep talk? I just want to go and meet the neighbours.

JOE sits up.

JOE
Shotgun first non-pregnant attractive woman.

SAM
F**k. Okay, you can have that one. But hurry up.

JOE
Gimme five.

JOE exits.

SAM
(to Joe)
Okay, but I don't just want to go out to meet girls. Just mostly that.

JOE (O/S)
Whatever.

SAM
You coming, Brad?

BRAD
Text me if you see a bird who's gagging for it, I'm not up for the chase. Need sleep.

SAM
Suit yourself.

Oh come on, guys.

Sam

I'll pitch in, although you'll probably wish I hadn't bothered.

The extract didn't exactly get me begging you for more. Lazy blokes sharing a flat. Got to be an outstanding script to succeed in the flatmates sitcom ideas market. I'm afraid the characters didn't leap off the page and I hardly raised a smile.

Sorry.

That's actually not too bad a note, I hadn't factored in the saturation of that market. Obviously the extract is just a little taster of the tone.

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