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INT. HOSPITAL - DAY

A MAN IN A SUIT WALKS UP TO A RECEPTION WITH A BIG SIGN NEXT TO IT MARKED ‘CANCER WARD'.

MAN
Excuse me?

NURSE ON RECEPTION
Yes?

MAN
I'm from the BBC and I wondered - do you have any female throat or lung cancer patients here?

NURSE
Yes, we have some. Are you interested in making a documentary?

MAN
Well, no, we need a new announcer for BBC2.

NURSE
Ah, I see. Channel 4 were here last week and signed up all our Geordies.

Sorry I don't get it.

Female tv announcers all sound as if they have throat cancer, or have a gobstopper stuck in their trachea. It's all croaky, throaty stuff that's presumably meant to be sexy.

I think you've picked up on something that only a few other people latch on to and then presented in a way that requires a leap from that knowledge to the gag to get the joke. Funny for those seven people but that's about it.