British Comedy Guide

NJ - The Bad Life

JUSTIN:
With the news that thousands of middle-class suburbanites are growing their own cannabis, the police with their usual swift efficiency have sprung into action and confiscated the exotic veg section of every branch of Waitrose. To get a taste of this unusual new phenomenon let's drop in on an ordinary night at the home of Tom and Barbara Bad.

GRAMS - 'THE GOOD LIFE' THEME (OR SIMILAR)

F/X CHOPPING VEG

BARBARA:
(BRIGHT, SUBURBAN) Tom darling, did you remember it's bin night?

TOM:
(LIKEWISE) Yes dear. I've put the wheelie-bin at the end of the drive.

BARBARA:
Thank you darling. And did you pick up the Lollo Rosso for the salad?

TOM:
Yes dear. I bought Italian dressing. Hope that's ok.

BARBARA:
Thank you darling. And did you get the money for the 3 kilos of weed I gave you?

TOM:
No, Sorry dear...

F/X VEG CHOPPING STOPS ABRUPTLY

TOM:
...Our man on the street's got a bit of a cashflow problem so I wasn't able to get it tod...

BARBARA:
...Son of a ***** ****** *****! Get me my money or I'll cut your ***** **** **** you motherflipping piece of *****!

TOM:
I'll get the money! I swear I'll get the money!! (SOBBING) Please don't cut me!

F/X CHOPPING VEG

BARBARA:
Thank you darling. Oh - Jeremy and Margaret will be popping over for dinner. Hope that's ok?

TOM:Y-es that's f-ine.

:D

Thanks AJGO. You put yours up yet? Don't worry - we're all failures here. :)

Think I'll have an end-of-series shame extravaganza. Still holding out hope that the stories I've loosely written about will crop up again and I can rework them and no-one else in the country will have submitted (and they'll probably still get rejected and I'll get a restraining order not just from Newsjack but from using computers or indeed a pen).

:) Liked it!

AJGO, are you revealing your rejects on the NJ reject thread? Inerested on your choices.

( Forget that, just seen it)

Ok - but make sure you do ;)

Keep trying!

Darn you both for being so nice and tempting me into looking a fool!

This is very good, but wouldn't it have worked better with Jeremy and Margot, as they were more the middle-class ones?

Dan

Definitely, but then I wouldn't have been able to call it The Bad Life

Ah, the choices you make. :)

My idea for The Better Life: https://www.comedy.co.uk/forums/post/16396/

;)

Dan

And another of my ideas that's been done earlier and better.

I might just post my next week's rejects now and save time.

Gnar! Evertone likes it pick another sit-com.

Quote: dellas @ September 30 2011, 8:34 PM BST

Gnar! Evertone likes it pick another sit-com.

Laughing out loud

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