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Granddaughter's College 'Revue' Sketch.

My granddaughter is doing a ‘Performing Arts’ course at college
Every month they have a ‘Revue’. All students are expected to do ‘something’
I have written this sketch for her and her friend.

SCENE: IMAGINARY DOCTORS SURGERY.
PROP: ONE SMALL PILL BOX, IN MISS SCROGGINS POCKET.

MISS SCROGGINS PRETENDS TO KNOCK ON FICTITIOUS DOOR
STAMPING HER FOOT TO IMITATE THE SOUND.

Dr FEELGOOD:
Come in.

MISS SCROGGINS TURNS FICTITIOUS DOOR HANDLE.

DOOR WON’T OPEN, SHE TRIES AGAIN, BUT SAME RESULT.

SHE BARGES DOOR WITH HER SHOULDER, IT DOESN’T OPEN.

SHE ‘KUNG FU’S’ THE DOOR. IT DOESN’T OPEN.

Dr FEELGOOD
Pull.

MISS SCROGGINS OPENS, WALKS THROUGH AND CLOSES FICTITIOUS DOOR.

Dr FEELGOOD
Miss Scroggins, come and sit down, and say ah.

MISS SCROGGINS.
Why?

Dr FEELGOOD
My dog died.

MISS SCROGGINS
Doctor, I keep stealing things. I can’t help it

Dr FEELGOOD
The medical term for that is kleptomania,
A person whom commits kleptomania, is a kleptomaniac,
Basically, you’re a maniac.
I want you to take these pills.

Dr FEELGOOD SEARCHES FICTITIOUS DRAWER IN FICTITIOUS DESK.

MISS SCROGGINS HOLDS OUT HER HAND, PALM UP, ON PALM IS PILL BOX.

Dr FEELGOOD.
Take two a day for a month.

MISS SCROGGINS
Will they cure me doctor?

Dr FEELGOOD.
If they don’t ,
Get me a plasma TV, will you?

I liked the imaginary door part; perhaps you could take "STAMPING HER FOOT TO IMITATE THE SOUND" further...like maybe...

SHE SHOUTS BANG TO IMITATE THE SOUND OF THE DOOR CLOSING

Dr FEELGOOD
Alright, love, no need to slam it.

The doctor asking the patient to say 'ah', I know you know it's a Cooper (or Vine, I'm never sure) joke, but it didn't work here because in the original joke, it's a dentist (who would normally ask you to say ah), whereas a doctor wouldn't ask you to do that. Perhaps think of a different joke for that bit...maybe a twist on the imaginary door...

Dr FEELGOOD
Come in, take a seat.

MISS SCROGGINS GOES OVER TO AN IMAGINARY SEAT AND TRIES TO SIT BUT FALLS ON THE FLOOR.

Dr FEELGOOD
What are you doing? There's no chair there, you must be imagining things...

I don't know, that's off the top of my head. You can probably think of something better than that.

It is designed as a two minute sketch with easily identified jokes, used by, not originated by Tommy Cooper/Tom Vine, I heard the jokes before I heard of Tom Vine. :D (have I done it,yeah)

Quote: Jerf Roberwitz @ January 23, 2008, 6:56 PM

It is designed as a two minute sketch with easily identified jokes to be performed in front of about 200 other students.

OK, that's cool...obviously you know what the target audience want better than us; my suggestions were just ideas anyway, not saying they are better than things you came up with or anything cus they were just off-the-cuff sort of thing :)

Thank you

Quote: Jerf Roberwitz @ January 23, 2008, 7:17 PM

Thank you

You're welcome, mate.

Quote: charisma @ January 23, 2008, 6:46 PM

asking the patient to say 'ah', I know you know it's a Cooper joke

The joke about stealing a TV is also ironically stolen from Tommy. It's even directly beneath the "say ah" gag on a Tommy Cooper website.

>_<

Sadly, this is the FOURTH sketch in a row in which you've passed off other people's work as your own. No one on this busy forum should be expected to waste their time critting cut 'n' pasted Tommy Cooper material (Gawd bless his soul) but on a positive note I will say that your choice for plagiarism is impeccable and your formatting is superb. It is one of the BEST laid out sketches I've seen here. So hats off there.

:)

Charisma, I like some of those ideas, esp. the slamming of the door. Clearly you would have worked well with the master. :D

Quote: SlagA @ January 23, 2008, 8:25 PM

So is the joke about nicking a TV. It's even directly beneath the "say ah" gag on one of the Tommy Cooper gag websites.

>_<

My apologies, I didn't know it was all Tommy Cooper, my bad.

Quote: SlagA @ January 23, 2008, 8:25 PM

Charisma, I like some of those ideas, esp. the slamming of the door. Clearly you would have worked well with the master. :D

So, can I officially claim that I'm as good as Tommy Cooper?! I've got from being below-average to one of the greatest of all time just like that (pun intended).

In my eyes, you traded ideas with a true British entertainment giant and squeezed some extra laughs out of it, so absolutely YES.
Laughing out loud

That is literally the highlight of my life!

Good one Jerf.

But shouldn't he prescribe Milk & Alcohol.

SlagA I learned from your highly 'original' Bruce Forsyth sketch.

What is the purpose of the pill box?

It's a visual joke, she is a kleptomaniac, the doctor looks for pills that might cure her, but she has stolen them, she gives them back in a 'theatrical' manner by putting the box on her upturned palm.

Quote: Jerf Roberwitz @ January 24, 2008, 12:18 PM

SlagA I learned from your highly 'original' Bruce Forsyth sketch.

Laughing out loud

Surely impersonation is meant to sound like that person? The joke was Forsythe can't escape from using catchphrases in real life. However, simply stealing Forsythe's jokes and passing them of as ours would be a different matter entirely and STILL wouldn't justify your unashamed recent batch of plagiarism.

Please if you insist on stealing material and getting people to waste their time criting it, then paste the URLs so we can go and crit the original works.

You CAN write Jerf, so please write ... your own material.
:)

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