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Plumber Sketch
lol love the dialogue and the last line is brill ben.
Yep, that's a class sketch Mr Winterlight (and I promise NOT to hijack this thread no matter what provocation I get from those "BSG oiks" !!!
You're building up a good portfolio of work, mate! 
Nice work. For some reason I read Jack as being read by Mark Heap.
I can see why Mark Heap sprang to mind. The delivery of Jack's lines are similar to the way Mark delivers Dr Statham's lines in Green Wing. However, I actually had Stephen Fry in mind as I was writing it.
Quote: Winterlight @ December 16, 2007, 7:32 PMDave: A spanner.
Jack: A what?
Dave: It’s a spanner. I need it to tighten and untighten nuts.
Jack: Oh I see. Been untightening my nuts have you?
Dave: Well yeah. I mean, they were quite tight.
© Ben Ricketts 2007
I think Jack's reply should be as follows:-
Jack : Oh I see. You want to untighten my nuts do you?
It makes it more suggestive becausenhe would know if he'd been untightening his nuts.
Just my suggestion.
I have to be honest here.
Frankly, I'm a little bemused at the universally positive response to this sketch. I thought it was a pretty laboured and inchoate rendering of a clichéd joke (nuts and bolts = nuts and shooting your bolt).
You've had some good stuff, but for me, I can't see how anyone could use this. For me, it shouldn't be on the portfolio. It was a pithy (and tired) FHM joke stretched out and weakened further over the course of a sketch.
It just didn't work for me, as you can gather, and maybe you will choose to discount my largely negative criticism in view of others' postive (I probably would!!). But... it wasn't funny or 'true' on any level for me, and that the tooth!
I'm sort of caught between two stools on this one. I like the slick dialogue which moves it on a pace and the timely intervention of the wife. However it reminds me a little of the carry on genre and I'm not a big fan. But plenty are winterlight so your gonna strike a chord there.
Haha! I suppose it could be classed as a little 'Carry On', but that would usually involve the plumber being named Mr Stopcock!
It does use a lot of suggestion and a vague sort of double entendre - not something I usually use in my sketches. However, I did laugh out loud as I was writing the dialogue and it's very rare that happens.
You literally LOL'd?
As said above, might be a little bit Carry On in content. Made me snigger but I don't think it's particularly sophisticated.
The pace is excellent, though. Very good indeed. Read very well so congrats -- I think you got that spot on.
Dan
It may read as carry on-esque, but it wouldn't be delivered in a carry on style.
And yep I literally lol'd
I'm with James Williams, I'm afraid. I just thought it was a bit obvious and didn't develop into any other innuendos until the final line (which incidentally I did like - but I think I'd have preferred more variations of the joke throughout, before we got to the stopcock). But thats only my opinion and the general consensus is that it was good, so I'd go with them.