First Among Equals

Scene: The Seven Dwarfs' House. Interior. Day.

DOC: Gather round everybody! Gather round!

HAPPY: It's the "Who's tallest?" competition again!

GRUMPY: Oh, for f**k's sake!

DOPEY: I like competitions! This sounds like a good one.

GRUMPY: We have it every week, you numbskull.

DOPEY: Do we? Who won last week?

GRUMPY: You did.

DOPEY: Hooray for me!

DOC: No more chattering! Votes, please!

SLEEPY: I vote for Bashful. He's truly tall.

BASHFUL: Awww, shucks. Then I vote for Sleepy.

DOPEY: STINKY for me.

DOC: Stinky's ineligible. He's dead.

DOPEY: Happy then.

SNEEZY: I Choose . . . I-I-I Choose . . . Doc.

HAPPY: It's a close call this week but my vote goes to Dopey.

GRUMPY: I vote for me.

DOC: You can't vote for yourself.

GRUMPY: I can. I just have done.

DOC: Very well. I'm going for Happy - which makes him the tallest with 2 votes.

GRUMPY: Somebody kill me.

DOC: Shut up.

ENDS.

I liked this silly, nay, let it be dopey, idea. With a stronger out-line it would have been v nice.

Although this is possibly based on the Skitcomp.
It is quite funny standing on it's own.
Raised a smile from me anyway

I noticed Ming removed this sketch from last week's sketch comp. Why's that Ming? Scared you wouldn't win? Unlike me, the winner!!! That's right I won with 4 votes, yeah, 4!. Read 'em and weep sucker!

Quote: AngieBaby @ October 13 2010, 10:21 PM BST

I noticed Ming removed this sketch from last week's sketch comp. Why's that Ming? Scared you wouldn't win? Unlike me, the winner!!! That's right I won with 4) votes, yeah, 4!. Read 'em and weep sucker!

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You must be Happy this week.

Does any of it matter?

I'm a Dopey at the moment. That's right, it's a marijuana joke!

I'm Grumpy 24/7.

Guess I'm Sleepy....so slow

Quote: bushbaby @ October 13 2010, 10:44 PM BST

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Don't worry BB
I didn't get any votes either

Suddenly, I'm hungry too.

ps Bushbaby, I'm sure Ming knows I like his stuff enough to know I was joking with my previous comments. It was meant to be a bit of tongue-in-cheek banter, sorry if it came across differently.

I know, I very often get misunderstood on here

Quote: AngieBaby @ October 13 2010, 11:01 PM BST

I'm sure Ming knows I like his stuff enough to know I was joking with my previous comments.

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Don't worry, Angie.

I have all our members arranged in groups.

You're not in the 'C' list.

Quote: Steve Sunshine @ October 13 2010, 9:59 PM BST

Although this is possibly based on the Skitcomp.
It is quite funny standing on it's own.

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Raised a smile from me before I realised it was satire on skitcomp. Slightly less funny for me in that context as it feels a bit mean-pirited...although I'm sure that isn't the intention.

The above sketch is, in my impartial-as-possible view, very good and very funny.

At a local level it satirises and parodies the Skit Comp but at a global level is it any less applicable to the Eurovision Song Contest?

The fact is it applies to all competitions in which the overall standard is much of a muchness and in which contestants vote openly for each other thus allowing and encouraging unconscious partiality, mutual back-scratching and downright corruption.

Some of the sketches in the Skit Comp are good just as some Eurovision songs are good. In writing the sketch, I was less concerned about the quality of the entrants than about the charade that is the voting.

And let's remember the Skit Comp is a collective effort: this sketch doesn't rip into any individual. I mean, that would be a terrible thing to do, wouldn't it?