Slumdog Computer Millionaire

(In order to understand this sketch you need to know that WATSON was the name of the computer which won money on Jeopardy)

ASIAN VOICEOVER: He was a computer from the wrong side of the tracks... Forced to look through broken calculators and ZX81s...and amazingly he could dance...! Until when day he won a million on a quiz show...

ASIAN BUREAUCRAT: How can anyone brought up like that know who Eleanor Rigby was?

ASIAN VOICEOVER: But it seems there are people who do not want him to get his fortune...

ASIAN BUREAUCRAT: Or know anything about Bram Stoker?

ASIAN VOICEOVER: Will Watson get his fortune?

ASIAN BUREAUCRAT: Or know about Harry Potter films?

ASIAN VOICEOVER: And find the love of his life, a lady Amstrad, who was on Eggheads?

ASIAN LADY: Because he's a supercomputer, who was created by IBM scientists?

ASIAN BUREACRAT: Yes, that's probably right.

ASIAN VOICEOVER: But there's a twist to the tale...

ASIAN BUREACRAT: Oh, what a shame, Watson's suddenly run out of power! It looks like we're having to keep all the money ourselves! Hee! Hee!

ASIAN VOICEOVER: Coming this spring...The Slumdog Computer Millionaire!

I think it's a bit of an obscure topic and you can't win a million on Jeopardy, can you? So that bit doesn't work. Plus, what's with the Asian bureaucrat - what's significant about him being a bureaucrat? The only joke in it I could see was the running out of power line and that wasn't very strong. I'd say get some more humour in the whole thing.

Computer says No.

Awful.

Obviously it had some relevance in the week. Does seem a bit Dick Barton-y now I look at it again. (Will our hero get out of this situation? Will he be killed by the runaway train?)