British Comedy Guide

Marriage Initiation

INT. DAY. WORKS CANTEEN.

MEN IN OVERALLS ARE SITTING EATING PACK LUNCHES.

MAN 1:
You'll never guess what I heard down the pub last night?

MAN 2:
What?

MAN 1:
Dave's getting married, Dave the welder, all hush hush like, his mate told me.

MAN 2:
He kept that quiet, the crafty little bugger.

MAN 3:
Any bloody wonder. Look what happened to Jim last year.

MAN 2:
He he, yeah, he got some going over. (PAUSE) Ok lads, action stations, put your goldies into this lunchbox and I'll go out and get stuff.

CUT TO MAN IN WELDING MASK WALKING ON FACTORY FLOOR. HE IS AMBUSHED BY WORKERS WHO CARRY HIM INTO THE LOCKER ROOM AND CLOSE DOOR.

FX SCREAMS, LAUGHING, BANGING WITH HAMMERS, CHAINSAW NOISE, KLANGS, ETC..

MAN WITH OVERALLS AND WELDING MASK STAGGERS OUT. HE LIFTS UP MASK TO REVEAL A WOMAN.

WOMAN: (speaking in man's voice)
You've ruined everything, how are me and Bill going to have a civil partnership now?

That is even crazier than one of my skits, but it's fantastic and just wonderfully bizarre.

It's also very neatly and economically written.

As sootyj says, neat and economical, but logic wise a bit of a stretch for me.

I liked the strech.

Yeah, I agree with Timbo.

I read it and felt I should like it, becuase the writing is good, but I didn't.

I don't know why, maybe as Timbo says the unbeliveabilty of it.

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