1p Fuel Duty cut

A sketch that came out of the Dave Cohen/James Cary course on 25th March. Written in about 5-10 minutes, tidied up this morning.

F/X: Time Pips

DAVE: It's 11 O'clock and you're listening to DaveTalk. In the recent budget, chancellor George Osbourne announced a 1p cut in fuel duty. How will cheaper fuel affect you? What will you spend the 1p saving on? Let's take some calls.

MAN #1:Hi Dave. Simon here. I'm not convinced by the 1p cut in fuel duty. Usually I put £20 of petrol in my car. Now it's cheaper, my petrol tank overflowed and it went all over my nice new shoes, so it's actually cost me more!

DAVE: Couldn't you just put less petrol in...?

MAN#1: But I always put £20 in. I'm going to have to buy a car with a bigger petrol tank now. This was supposed to be the greenest budget ever but they've forced me to buy a car that pollutes more.

DAVE: Outrageous! Thanks Simon. Second caller - how has cheaper fuel affected your day?

WOMAN #1: Hello Dave. I normally get my newspaper from the shop at the end of the road but today I drove to Doncaster and back. It saved me 45p, which paid for the newspaper.

DAVE: So a positive budget for you then?

WOMAN #1: Sort of. But I am going to have to drive all the way to Inverness and back to save enough to buy the Sunday paper.

DAVE: Thanks callers. I don't know what I'll be spending my penny on but now he's clamped down on my Lear Jet, I wouldn't spend a penny on George Osbourne if he was on fire. You're listening to DaveTalk and now The Beatles with Taxman.

Yeah pretty good. It read well also.

Very good for such a short space of time. Need to avoid the repetition of 'paper', is the only advice I can give.

Maybe a bigger final punch, but I'm hardly one to talk about writing a funny last gag.

Dan

What I love about the sort of course you went on is that you get to pair up with someone and do some writing. I went on a Dave Cohen course about a year ago and we did a similar thing. We got paired up a number of times with different people during the day. Sometimes you click with the person you're with and sometimes you don't.

There was one guy I was put with by Dave and somehow things just clicked and we worked really well together. I look back now and wish I had asked for his details as who knows what we may have been able to write together. Conversly he probably looks back and thinks, 'who was that unfunny weird twat?'.

I liked your sketch, given the small amount of time you get in these courses I thought it was funny.

Def.

Really nice concept. I agree the second caller shouldn't repeat the newspaper idea. Maybe they were able to splash out on a 20p mixup they couldn't afford before?
Nicely done.

As per previous views I liked this but felt it needed a better punch.