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A Christmas Kylrol

Intro music to the Jeremy Kyle Show

Jeremy - Welcome to the show . We have an interesting show today, our first guest is a man on minimum wage, who works every hour God gives him, but has recently discovered that his youngest child may not be his own. Please come on to the stage Bob Cratchit.

Bob walks on

Jeremy - Hello Bob, what first made you think your little boy Tim might not be yours.

Bob - Well Jeremy, Tim has always been a sickly child, and in many ways, though I know you shouldn't have favourites, the apple of my eye. But one Christmas things for us as a family changed dramatically. My boss Mr Scrooge suddenly took a real interest in Tiny Tim, got him the best medical treatment, showered him with gifts.

Jeremy - Well he sounds a kind and compassionate man.

Bob - Well yes, but you see this was completely out of character. He is widely known to be a mean and parsimonious man. Plus Tim looks at bit like him, the beady eyes, long hook nose and jet black hair.

Jeremy - And you suspect that this Mr Scrooge may be Tiny Tim's biological father.

Bob - Jeremy sadly I do.

Jeremy Well lets bring on Bob's wife Emily

Audience boos

Emily comes right up to Bob's face and shouts

Emily - You wanker Bob how could you accuse me of this, I've always been a good girl me!

Bob - well why is Tim's middle name Ebenezer when you always said you hated Mr Scrooge

Emily - Look it's a nice name, classy

Jeremy - But Bob that wasn't all was it?

Bob - No Jeremy. Emily always has immaculate clothes

Emily - Well of course I do you f******g d**** I'm a seamstress!

Bob - made out of the finest silks Jeremy! Where does she get it eh?

Emily - I get it from grateful customers Jeremy.

Bob - And, and I work in a very cold office, I'm only allowed one piece of coal a day. But when I come home the house is always boiling. The other day right I found a load of chicken bones in the bin. I aint had chicken for two years and even then it was a leg I fought the dog for.

Emily - Jeremy they weren't chicken bones, they were rat.

Bob - I know rat when I sees it I eats enough of it!

Jeremy - Right, right, there's only one way to sort this, the lie detector. We asked Emily is the father of Tiny Tim Mr Scrooge. Emily, you said no. Is that right love

Emily - I swears on my life I does

Jeremy - Well Bob she was...... lying!

Bob - I knew it, I knew it, you Bitch

Emily - Well how do you expect me to get by on what you bring in you f****, if a nice gentleman wants to help me out who am I to say no.

Bob - I work my fingers to the bone and your stonking Mr. Scrooge

Jeremy - Well listen I think you both need to go off and see our councillors.

Bob and Emily Leave.

Jeremy - Well that just goes to show you. Now our next guest, is a Joseph Nazareth who says his son Jesus looks nothing like him.

Very good, funny throughout creating a nice story with a punch is the cornerstone of the game and this ticks all the boxes, it would be a fantastic Christmas clip.

Thanks Teddy

No need for thanks, anyone reading this will 'see it' and that takes skill.

Lovely concept for a sketch.

Hahaha!

Quote: Pingl @ October 19 2012, 11:17 AM BST

Intro music to the Jeremy Kyle Show

Bob - And, and I work in a very cold office, I'm only allowed one piece of coal a day. But when I come home the house is always boiling. The other day right I found a load of chicken bones in the bin. I aint had chicken for two years and even then it was a leg I fought the dog for.

I liked it but I felt that Bob changed character a bit when he speaks in the quote above, I had to re adjust,I think I didn't expect him to say right and aint, but that is jeremy Kyle speak I suppose.

This is excellent very well structured great characters and economic

Thanks to everyone, much appreciated. Could do with some encouragement feeling a bit deflated at mo. Thanks again. :)

I think it's very nice, too: clever to think there might be an ulterior motive to Scrooge's generosity. Perhaps he could come in and say he did it because of these three ghosts, and everyone would ridicule him?

The only bit I don't like is the punchline, as I reckon the Jesus/paternity joke has been done from every angle. Maybe another Dickens ref would do the trick, or some other Christmas joke ("Next up, Donner and Blitzen, two seasonal workers who claim that their colleague Rudolph has been given preferential treatment because of his disability" - only, better than than, obviously!).

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