QUEEN LIZ IS ON THE PHONE
LIZ
I see no one came to your birthday party.
PAUSE
You've got massive debts...
PAUSE
A trillion dollars
PAUSE
And the banks increased your interest rates?
PAUSE
Now Mr Obama please don't cry, how can I help?
PAUSE
That's a lovely idea...but I really don't the UK can take back the American colonies.
It's likeable and current.
It may also work as a one line without the explanatory though?
"QUEEN LIZ
Well that's a lovely idea Mr Obama but I don't
think the UK can really take back the American colonies."
That's if people are aware of the US' troubles.
It certainly works as a one liner, I'm just greedy and vain and get more for sketches
Nice one
Doubtless not intentional but it is like an extremely precised version of George Bernard Shaw's The Apple Cart.
As in the oft-quoted phrase to Sootyj: are you really Shaw?