NJ: Family Misfortunes

Hi. Please get stuck in if you have a mind. I'd be very complimented to come back and find bloody bits of this sketch scattered all over the page.

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ATMOS WILD AUDIENCE APPLAUSE

RAHM:I'm Rahm Emmanuel and welcome back to Family Misfortunes. Still with us are the Renshaw family from your Rother - ham. Are you ready?

JACK RENSHAW:We're ready, Rahm

RAHM: Ok, BP's Tony Hayward has poured millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, stonewalled a Senate committee, he's said he wants his life back - apparently to go sailing; we asked our audience, what is the worst thing Tony Hayward could do next? They said ...

JACK RENSHAW:Erm ... is it club a pelican?

FXDING

RAHM:Yes! In third place, 25% of our audience thought clubbing a pelican would be a bad thing to do. Betty?

BETTYh ... er ... resign?

FXNUH - UH

RAHMorry, Betty, I don't think he's even considered that.
DUNCAN:Is it ... call a fisherman a bigot?

FXDING DING DING DING DING

RAHM:Yes! That's the top answer at 55%. You win a reasonable lifetime pension for father of the family Jack, because, let's face it, by the time we've finished, the one he's got now won't be worth squat-diddley.

BETTYh, thank you.

JACK:Thank you, Rahm.

RAHM: And thank you, thanks to all the viewers at home - and a special thank you to Tony Hayward - Tony, I hope you're watching because, buddy, you're keeping me in a job. Goodnight.

END

Hey Bomsch

I think the idea is a good one. Main problem: I don't/didn't know who Rahm Emanuel was nor Jack Renshaw and I've been reading the news a lot(!) so I think the problem might be that those people are too obscure for a Radio 7 audience. Vernon Kay as host might have been better from a familiarity point of view (and also Lewis can probably do Vernon!)

Just thinking, for the general setup, maybe the final round would have been a better setting; you know, the one where the host has his arm around them going through what they've said and everything being wrong.

Dan