British Comedy Guide

NewsJack Rejections. Series 6 Page 8

Tsk! Late to the party again.

Really enjoyed reading all the one liners above. Here's mine:

Englebert Humperdinck? Didn't they let him go?

David Cameron says he's quite happy to take a hit over his NHS reforms and we're quite happy to give him one. Trouble is, we're behind the Royal College of General Practitioners, The Royal College of Nursing, The Royal College of Anaesthetists, The Royal College of Paediatricians and the Royal College of Pathologists. You never got waiting lists like that under Labour!

Why did we desecrate war graves? Those British Tommies were undersexed, underpaid, and under here!

(Russian pensioner) Russian buses! You wait four years for bus to polling station, and then bus come and take you to five polling stations at once!

I looked on a map of Syria and it turns out the BBC were right. Homs is under Hama.

Human Centipede part 3?! I'm still waiting for the human Milliband!

I tried to use one of those new speaking cash machines. It just laughed at me.

I like the idea of cash machines for the blind that talk - although as a high net worth private banking customer, I'd prefer one that shouts.

A tax on mansions? Has Vince Cable been watching Scarface again?

Sex: it's all Greek to me.

eh?

Quote: Bomsh @ March 10 2012, 10:00 AM GMT

Why did we desecrate war graves? Those British Tommies were undersexed, underpaid, and under here!

A tax on mansions? Has Vince Cable been watching Scarface again?

Hahaha, I liked both of these! The first one is way too tasteless/too soon for a BBC comedy to use but creates a really ghoulish image. The Scarface one is a nice slow-burner though. I sort of went "Huh?" then found the pun at the start. Maybe you were unlucky and the script editor had never seen the film...

Quote: sootyj @ March 11 2012, 6:28 PM GMT

eh?

http://bit.ly/z2FsXJ

Quote: masterfox20 @ March 12 2012, 7:26 PM GMT

http://bit.ly/z2FsXJ

**NOT SAFE FOR WORK** warning would have been nice Sam.

I know what Greek sex is, but whats it got to do with the news?

This is useful if you're wary about clicking on strange shortened links (which you should be!):

http://untiny.me/

It decodes the URL for you and displays the unshortened link so you can make a decision about whether you want to click it or not.

Quote: blahblah @ March 8 2012, 6:40 PM GMT

(Russian accent) People say the Russian people did not vote in election? Rubbish! I voted two hundred times

Like this

Quote: Steve Sunshine @ March 8 2012, 7:39 PM GMT

I had one of those Violins with strings made of Spider silk. I once played flight of the Bumblebee and managed

to catch 3 of the buggers.

If the Royal Opera House are staging the Little Mermaid and setting it in a brothel then I don't know why my

wife complains when I want to go to my local lap dancing club to see Bambi.

I knew that if we kept on losing at Eurovision that eventually we'd end up getting "The Hump"

A Top shop garment had the name Shakespeare spelt incorrectly. Well that doesn't say much about the education

standards of 5 year old Vietnamese Children.

Half of 11 year olds only play outside during school time. Poor little things! Don't these schools even have

computers they can play on?

They wanted that young lad to remove his Jolly Roger flag from his garden, I'm sorry but these Anti Piracy

laws have already gone too far

So Cameron's going to war on Cheap Booze & fags is he?. Yeah they tend to make me a bit fighty as well.

The German finance minister was caught playing Sudoku during a summit on Greek debt. He said that scribbling

random numbers down for fun may seem pointless, and that's why he decided to play Sudoku instead..

A conference was held today to discuss ways of reducing the high number of Frogs who die crossing the road. If

this is a success then they plan further conferences on topics such as avoiding barrels thrown by Apes &

defending your city against Space Invaders, ..

All very good. On fire, Mr Sunshine!

Quote: Gerry McDonnell @ March 8 2012, 8:24 PM GMT

A French president walks into a bar. The barman says "what brings you in here?" He replies "the chasers".

Good gag. Not sure it's Newsjack though.

Quote: babetko85 @ March 8 2012, 10:01 PM GMT

Police have confirmed that Saturday's

International Bagpipe Day conference in London will go ahead despite objections from anti-drone protesters.

Good stuff.

Quote: Tursiops @ March 8 2012, 10:08 PM GMT

CORRECTIONS
The miraculous relic stolen by thieves in Dublin was, in fact, Lawrence O'Toole's heart; not Peter O'Toole's

liver.

Like this one

Quote: lippy @ March 8 2012, 10:22 PM GMT

And that was Newsjack from March 2012, shortly before the Jordanians finally agreed to accept the UK's most

outspoken hate cleric. Cardinal Keith O'Brien says he regrets his rant over gay marriage and hopes to return

to the UK one day.

Good

Quote: Big Jack @ March 8 2012, 10:25 PM GMT

(2)The UKIP Party Conference was so poorly attended because of their policy of not letting anyone in.

(4)(Old boy) All this fuss over gay marriage! Gay men should be happy with a civil partnership - my wife

and I haven't been civil to each other in years.

Like these two.

Quote: sootyj @ March 9 2012, 8:44 AM GMT

VOX POP (posh type)
The government should absolutely keep the 50p rate of tax.
I'm more than happy to pay 50p a year tax.

VOX POP
On the one hand I agree with that kid being allowed to fly a pirate flag in his garden.
But hijacking those ice cream vans and taking the milkman hostage is a bit much.

These two are good.

Quote: 3songsnoflash @ March 9 2012, 5:32 PM GMT

JACKAPP:
If privatisation of the police service actually goes ahead, it would mean that anyone with enough money would

be able to buy their own police force. Presumably from PC World.

JACKAPP:
Ofsted inspectors have complained that music lessons in schools actually lack music. It was a similar story

with sex education at my school - not one bit of music, not even any of the Bom-Chicka-Wah-Wah stuff...
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Liked these, hat-trick boy!

Quote: Park Bench @ March 9 2012, 7:30 PM GMT

The revolutionary Raspberry Pi has gone a sale. A cheap 'bare bones' computer, without a case, keyboard or monitor. In fact, if it had a meat filling, it would be an actual pie.

No matter how many books I put on my new Kindle, I still can't reach the blankets in the top of the wardrobe.

These are good.

Quote: Bomsh @ March 10 2012, 10:00 AM GMT

(Russian pensioner) Russian buses! You wait four years for bus to polling station, and then bus come and take you to five polling stations at once!

Funny.

My epic fails:

JACKAPP:
Sure, expensive Japanese spider silk is all well and good for your violins, but how will the working classes play theirs?

IN CAR:
I'm the chair of the SatNav summit, and what I'd really like to know is... where exactly is it? I'm a bit lost.

JACKAPP:
I'm completely lost at how to use these condoms with QR codes on them. So far, I've not even found a woman with an appropriately located scanner.

JACKAPP:
To the Scottish people not knowing how a fox grew to be 38lbs: stop farming fried chickens!

LIVID:
I think it's a disgrace that BT and TalkTalk have lost their appeal about cutting off illegal filesharers-- (DEAD LINE)

JACKAPP:
Erm... just about this new graduates being in lower-skilled jobs than ten years ago. Well, I graduated a few months ago and I'm the CEO of HBOS (WHISPERS) I don't know what I'm doing! Help. Me!

JACKAPP:
I think it's incredibly dangerous to give a 'learning' computer a job like sorting potatoes. You mark my words: first, it'll be doing the menial tasks but, before you know it, it'll be sat on a beanbag, playing computer games. Eating crisps.

JACKAPP:
Pupils with English as a second language are getting better results than native speakers? Bloody foreigners; coming over here, stealing our qualifications.

JACKAPP:
I wonder if AVB made any AVCs? He'll need them now.

ACTOR:
Acting may not be a proper job as far as The Passport Office are concerned, but I should be good enough to convince you it is!

JACKAPP:
The Government are stopping child benefits? I didn't even know they'd organised concerts!

BANK:
Hello? Mr... Jack? It's come to our attention that we may have missold you Payment Protection Insurance. While you're on the line, would you be interested in Accidental Anti-gravity Insurance?

RAUCOUS:
(NOISY KIDS IN BACKGROUND) It's an utter disgrace that this woman invented ten children just to claim benefits! Grumpy! Sneezy! Get off that couch!

CORRECTION:
We'd like to apologise to the hackers who gained full functional control of key NASA computers. We apologise reservedly for claiming they would cause mayhem and thank them for bringing the space programme forward by fifty years in the space of a week.

CORRECTION:
We'd like to apologise to the Spanish players at the UK Pokemon Championships, who we claimed were thrown out of a hotel after throwing their own excrement at each other. They were actually only ejected when the shit hit the fans.

FINALLY:
That was Newsjack from March 2012, in the week that Cher incorrectly declared her next tour would be her last. Her subsequent 75 tours all had the same claim, including three from California State Cryogenics Facility and the last two from Hades itself.

It was also the week that Tesco created 20,000 jobs in the UK, back in those halcyon days when there were other potential employers and Walkers' mystery flavours were released, rather embarrassingly now, as to this day no-one has guessed the correct flavours.

Next on Radio 4 Extra, So Not Graham Norton, describing the story of the undiscovered email from the BBC funnyman announcing his only male heir, the ultra-conservative Cardinal Keith Norton, who inherited the Friday night chat show and was solely responsible for the beginning of the Unenlightenment.

Dan

Quote: swerytd @ March 13 2012, 10:56 AM GMT

Liked these, hat-trick boy!

Haha! I'm thinking of changing my name to 3gagsnosketch...

Quote: swerytd @ March 13 2012, 10:56 AM GMT

CORRECTION:
We'd like to apologise to the hackers who gained full functional control of key NASA computers. We apologise reservedly for claiming they would cause mayhem and thank them for bringing the space programme forward by fifty years in the space of a week.

Ooh! How did you feel when you heard the NASA sketch?

Some you win, some you lose. :)

Dan

Here's my comedy fool'sgold this week..

(1) They are talking about doing an American remake of The Only Way Is Essex. It's going to be unfunny, vacuous and in really poor English - and then the Americans will remake it.

(2) That girl who spent £10,000 on plastic surgery to look like a doll - is the figure inflated?

(3) Why have they messed around with opera and put helicopters in it?! I prefer it plane.

(5) I agree with Policing Minister Nick Herbert that with these cuts to the level of policing it's pointless arguing about the numbers - the cuts in education mean no one understands them.

(7) A poll recently found that half of adults thought that Mount Everest is the tallest mountain in England. He should have been asking about the tallest mountain in Poland.

(10) In New York a budgeting row means there's going to be a toilet paper shortage - in France that wouldn't wipe.

AND FINALLY...

(11) That was Newsjack, first broadcast in the week that Prime Minister David Cameron was welcomed as a guest on Air Force One. Mr Cameron declared the trip to be a resounding success, adding "I got an ashtray, two monogrammed towels, and most of the mini-bar".

Quote: Big Jack @ March 15 2012, 12:04 AM GMT

(1) They are talking about doing an American remake of The Only Way Is Essex. It's going to be unfunny, vacuous and in really poor English - and then the Americans will remake it.

(3) Why have they messed around with opera and put helicopters in it?! I prefer it plane.

(7) A poll recently found that half of adults thought that Mount Everest is the tallest mountain in England. He should have been asking about the tallest mountain in Poland.

(1) is very good. (3) and (7) are great ideas but feel like they need rejigging for best effect.

My failures now I know they weren't in:

JUSTIN:
All public buildings in New Jersey face running out of toilet paper after a row over how expensive it is. The supplier providing it got a bit cocky with pricing, thinking they were on a roll.

JUSTIN:
This week, it turns out men are so flooded with testosterone that aaarrrrrrrrrRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!! Apologies there, my flies were caught on a couple of delicate, yet ballooning anatomical areas.

JUSTIN:
French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been forced to apologise to a policewoman after his teenage son threw a tomato at her. The lady admitted it was her own fault, for claiming she was leaving the police and getting into stocks.

SHOUTING:
I DON'T THINK ICE-CREAM VANS ARE TOO LOUD AND I'M ADDICTED!

JACKAPP:
They're right about LSD helping giving up drinking. I took it once and my pint chased me out of the pub!

JACKAPP:
Diets high in red meat shorten life expectancy? Well, certainly for cows.

JACKAPP:
Game didn't seem too worried about going out of business; not until someone explained they didn't have another two lives remaining.

JACKAPP:
A 4G phone network?! I can barely deal with the Earth's gravity!

JACKAPP:
It's true! Since reaching middle-age, I've been much happier after giving up on my dreams. Though they did all involve someone chasing me with an axe...

JACKAPP:
I approve of this new rule demanding female chess players cover their cleavages. It was getting very difficult as I was constantly knocking all the pieces over.

JACKAPP:
To deny uninsured drivers petrol is ridiculous. Imagine being behind them in the queue while they fill in all the questions 'comparing the meerkat'.

JACKAPP:
I see Rebekah Brooks has been arrested again, but that's what you get for 'perverting the racehorse of justice'.

JACKAPP:
It's not the Human Rights we should be pulling out of, it's the Human Wrongs!

CORRECTION:We'd like to apologise to HRMC after we claimed their 'shambles' cost £6billion a year. We at Newsjack have recently got ourselves a shambles, and it's proving to be worth every penny!

CORRECTION:We'd like to apologise to David Walliams after winning the role to play Michael Barrymore in a drama. Obviously that is not 'what all that swimming was about'.

FINALLY:
That was Newsjack from March 2012, in the week that a man thinking his iPhone was haunted was later proved entirely correct, after Apple admitted to releasing an app allowing the ghost of Steve Jobs to influence your technology purchases from beyond the grave.

It was also the week that parts of the South-East were officially in drought, merely a year after the severe drought conditions and strict hosepipe ban in the Giggs area of Manchester.

Next on Radio 4 Extra, Niall Ferguson's China Crisis, a study of society in which individualism was proved be genetic in the West. Personally, I thought it was a load of nonsense, and I don't care what anybody else thinks.

Dan

My picks of the early-birds:

Quote: Big Jack @ March 15 2012, 12:04 AM GMT

They are talking about doing an American remake of The Only Way Is Essex. It's going to be unfunny, vacuous and in really poor English - and then the Americans will remake it.

Quote: swerytd @ March 15 2012, 9:25 AM GMT

They're right about LSD helping giving up drinking. I took it once and my pint chased me out of the pub!

Diets high in red meat shorten life expectancy? Well, certainly for cows.

I sent in exactly the same Barrymore 'swimming' joke Dan; I'm guessing they were drowning in them.

Ba Bum Tsch!

Bollocks. I'm so predictable...

Dan

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