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The Question about Clarkson

The Question about Clarkson

Speaker : Questions to the Prime Minister. David Cameron.

DC: Thank you Mr Speaker. The Prime Minister has been verbally attacked this week by the highly respected television presenter and journalist Jeremy Clarkson. How does he cope with the fact that the media feel he is a one eyed Scottish idiot who tells lies to the British public?

GB: Clearly Mr Clarkson's comments were inappropriate. He insulted me, Scotland and blind people in general. This is not a widely held view by the media and Mr Clarkson is renowned throughout broadcasting as a person who may well like to court the headlines himself. Mr Clarkson has had a very privileged lifestyle, being school privately like the right honourable gentleman. And like him he shares many of his traits, pompousness, arrogance and speaking before thinking. I suggest Mr Cameron should meet Mr Clarkson make a DVD together, add many more millions to each of your bank accounts and you should both get out the country and leave me to run it!

DC: What exactly is the Prime Minister saying here?

GB: What I am saying is that while I try to handle the worse economic situation the country has ever seen the best question the leader of the opposition can ask me is about a loud mouth, curly haired, yobbish TV star. Mr Clarkson has repeatedly abused his position both as a journalist and a BBC employee to make his fascist views know to the wider community. Quite frankly its time the man was sacked. However, it's of little surprise that you tend to aline yourself towards his views.

DC: Can the Prime Minister get straight to the point he is trying to make?

GB: Fine. You're both a pair of upper class English c**ts, who seem to have millions of fans hanging off every word you say and I'm f**king jealous. Happy now?

Hi bigfella

I think the large paragraphs don't work too well in sketches generally, as you need some sort of interaction to get the comedy/conflict out of it, so it wanes a bit.

I think that's why there aren't that many sketches set in the Houses of Parliament, to be honest!

Punchline's a bit too much like abuse too, in my opinion.

Perhaps setting it somewhere less formal and turn into a bit of an argument might make it work better. Like I said, needs a better punchline too.

Hope this helps

Dan

This is what I thought! So I wrote another one in a different sort of setting.

https://www.comedy.co.uk/forums/thread/11557

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