British Comedy Guide

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MAN ON PHONE TO ELECTRICITY COMPANY GIRL (SHERYL)

MAN
Hello is that Powergen I wish to complain about my electricity bill, it's £230 more than it should be.

SHERYL
Good afternoon sir. That's part of a government scheme to encourage you to generate your own electricity. You get it back if you generate it.

MAN
I beg your pardon generate my own electricity? What do you think I have some sort of nuclear powerplant in my shed? Or maybe I should run around in some sort of giant hamster wheel?

SHERYL
Could you sir? That would be most helpful. It's a wizard way to persuade people to build the wind turbines the government won't by bribing them with their own money.

MAN
That's awful and what's this £50 to fight the Taleban?

SHERYL
Same idea sir, if you shoot a member of the Taleban you get £50 back. Any one at all Talibany in your street?

Maybe it was the language, but it was a little Python-esque. Is that a good or bad thing? I dunno, depends if you like Python, I suppose.

OK punch, nothing special.

Yeh was trying to work a sketch around a really weird news story didn't quite work.

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