Quote: Feeoree @ October 11 2011, 2:51 PM BSTHaha, I steered clear of the McCartney jokes, everyone would do one about legs.
My Macca one left Heather out of it, though I admit the thought had crossed my mind.
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My lack of imagination saved me there. I couldn't think of any jokes that weren't about Heather Mills or Beatles songs (if I'm honest I couldn't think of any that were) so I left Macca alone (or Let it Be, as amarsandhu says much more cleverly than I could manage).
Still, 1 sketch and 8 one-liners off t' mill.
Quote: amarsandhu @ October 11 2011, 6:17 PM BSTNewsjack BBC on Twitter-
"Also, we're fine for stuff which hilariously confuses Defence Secretary Dr. Liam Fox with popular radio presenter Dr. Fox."
I actually didn't think about that....worrying...
Neither had I.
Since it's unlikely to get on I also did a "he was better on the radio" joke because I couldn't resist it.
I did also send another one about Fox but it'll be less common, maybe some variants though if people have my level of gutter humour.
Over the five weeks I've discovered that news stories with the potential to have humour extracted from them only appear in a small window on a Tuesday afternoon when I'm at work . . .
Quote: Feeoree @ October 11 2011, 7:48 PM BSTI did also send another one about Fox but it'll be less common, maybe some variants though if people have my level of gutter humour.
My sketch about an American General saying 'What a bummer' when told that Fox's friend wasn't able to attend a meeting will almost certainly not make the cut. Mostly because I didn't send it in.
Back with a baker's dozen. Failed in my attempts to gag about cheryl cole's footwear design career and the Telford Junior football league which records scores as 1-0 or 1-1 to stop kids getting embarrassed at getting thumped.
I don't seem to have heard any of these news stories, and I've scoured every page of Ceefax.
Did anyone catch the report that MPs are drinking too much in the House of Commons? I tried to combine it with the news that Big Ben's Tower is a bit off the vertical too.
Bollocks, I didn't think to combine the two. SLIPPING.
I did wonder how many people would have seen the story about the Big Ben tower leaning a bit.
I saw the leaning Big Ben story.
Almost wrote a joke somewhere along the lines of, "Big Ben, like Labour, is leaning a little too much to the left," but you'll be glad I deleted it as it's so bloody awful.
I'd say this week's obviouses would include:
Big Ben "leaning too much to the left/right"
Politicians drinking too much/ aren't they just like the England rugby team
Liam Fox/ Dr Fox off the radio
Macca's enters a new leg in the marriage stakes.
But hey, did anyone else do a joke about Hitler?
Topical.
Quote: Big Jack @ October 12 2011, 12:03 AM BSTI'd say this week's obviouses would include:
Big Ben "leaning too much to the left/right"
Or anything to do with Pisa.
I can confidently predict that no other sketch will be received similar to mine. They do accept sketches on obscure subjects with no jokes in them don't they?
Not only do they accept them, they occasionally broadcast them.
(What's this door with 'career suicide' written on it? oh, it's unlocked.....)