Adverts

Adverts are getting worse. It may be because I'm a cynical bastard, but I'm just thinking, anyone who advertises ANYTHING as free must be lying because they are all companies who have to make money... But I didn't realise how thick people actually were these days. "Are you going anywhere nice on holiday this year?" "..No we're not - Still paying off our loan from Wonga.com" "Oh, a big one was it?" "No I just needed £20 for some booze and fags."

I'll tell you what else is a rip-off. Those magazines where you build something over the course of... 20 years or so. "Build-a-train!", "Classic car collection!", "Pointless magazine collection - collect a series of pointless magazines over the course of two years because we hope to have you so hooked by the first issue that you feel you NEED to buy the magazines that succeed it but the first issue was 99p and the following ones are 18 FUCKING QUID".... - They were good actually I collected them for a while.

Who likes that Lindor chocolate? On the advert it says that the 'lusciously smooth chocolate caresses all of your senses'... Wait, hold on a minute, when was the last time you HEARD chocolate Lindor you bastards?

I assume this is stand up material. It's not up to much, you need some funnier lines to go with the outrage. Find out how much one of these mags wpuldcost in total (theres a 'build a mclaren' one that works out about 800 quid) and play with that maybe.

I like the subject matter as I can relate to it, and the observations are good but it does feelthat's all it is,observation,but who knows it could be funny as part of a stand up routine rather than on a screen. Id maybe say something about Wonga being the internet version of Provident,and the days of the man coming to the door with his little book every week (was popular in Ireland!)
Also in the magazines bit perhaps you could mention that kids mags are now just rubbishy toys with a magazine attached,and maybe build on that aspect.

I have thought about the subject matter of loans before, the tragedy is u have given the loan company to much credit. I may be wrong but I think its quick quid who charge 3000 apr u could borrow money for a king size marsbar (for a quid) and have to pay back 24 million pound after 5 years GENUINLY THAT IS NO JOKE. So in this subject matter the joke is already there in the reality of the facts, just need to find a way to make it funny.

There is somat funny about losing your car / house and all your possesions because you borrowed 30 pence for a packet of crisps