INT DAY. A PUB
TWO MEN, ONE OF WHOM IS DRESSED AS A BLUEBERRY DRAIN THE LAST OF THEIR PINTS AND SLOWLY BRING DOWN THEIR GLASSES.
Blueberry Man:
Another?
Man 2:
Your round
BLUEBERRY MAN SCOWLS AT MAN 2, GETS UP AND SHUFFLES AWAY LOOKING REALLY HURT.
CUT
Fred
You're better than this.
Dan
After looking at this for a while I just don't get it! Is there something about blueberries, other than as a fruit, that I've missed (like Blackberry means a comms device these days) or should Man2's brief speech be ... "You're round" as a mild insult to Blueberry Man (who presumably is round!) ... or what?
Thanks Mike. You've made it funny, by the thought of you staring at a screen scratching your head. That should be a sketch!
Dan
Yeah ... old buggers like me have that problem all the time. I even looked up 'blueberry' in the Oxford (one of several plants of genus Vaccinium) so that wasn't a fat lot of use either!
For explanatory purposes, I think Fred was using 'Your round' as in 'It's your turn to buy drinks' but the other guy confused it as 'You're round' because he's dressed as a big, round blueberry.
Can you see what he did there? Can you? Round as in 'a round of drinks' and round as in a circle. It's genius. Can you see it? Quality.
Hands up if it's obvious Stewart Lee is my favourite comedian...
Dan
Thanks Dan ... I can now relax!!!
I'm no fan of visual puns but I had a strange compulsion here. I feel as ashamed as I did when I was compelled to eat someone's ears
Got me there too, Fred! I think I need a holiday ...
I thought your life was a big holiday?!
Oh yeah, everybody who visits thinks that ... they come here for non-specified amounts of time, rise for lunch, repeatedly empty the bar, laze around the pool all the rest of day, eat everything going, always want to watch stuff on the TV I hate ... and generally mess up my 24/7 work schedules. I've spent the last 4 weeks re-roofing a chunk of our house (the 4th done since we came here), beating off the wasps (they won a few times!) and flies in an outdoor temperature averaging 104F, covered in brick dust and other debris, repaired the angle grinder several times before going and getting another one (the fifth actually!) along the way. Hopefully we get three days 'away' next week ... that's if the neighbours agree to look after the 4 dogs, 5 cats, chickens, and the duck! Sure is a big holiday!
Aye! Luxury lad! Pure bluddy luxury!
Reminds me of the joke "Two fat blokes in a bar, one says 'Your round' the other says 'So are you you fat bastard'" I got it straight away, but because of that joke i didn't find it funny because it seems you've put it in script form and changed it to blueberries. Of course, you may have just thought of the joke yourself, i don't know.
No offence intended, MIke -I'm sure you're v busy! Anyway. As John Cleese said, 'First rule of comedy: no puns. Second rule of comedy: no puns.' Everyone has a shit sketch in them, I beleive!
Hi Fred ... dunno what I said (well I do 'cos I just cheated an' looked) ...an' I do overcook the downside of sittin' here in the sun somewhat!) but ... I just didn't get what 'I feel as ashamed as I did when I was compelled to eat someone's ears' meant. I am, as they say, an innocent abroad! Actually I quite enjoy it most of the time ... but I don't necessarily get any Brit-inspired 'jokes' that are less than ten years old anymore. An' here am I writing this in the 3 hours from 6 to 9 pm when the red's got control of the keyboard ... I'd share a coupla litres wiz ya ... but you aint here!
ps. Just read back through that ... methinks I talk a load of tosh sometimes!!!