British Comedy Guide

Terrified Postman Sketch

EXT. OLD LADY'S GARDEN - MORNING

A POSTMAN (with a welsh accent) creeps down the garden path. Suddenly an OLD WOMAN bursts out of her front door and confronts the POSTMAN

OLD LADY
You!

The POSTMAN nearly jumps out of his skin

POSTMAN
Jesus woman! I nearly laid an egg!

OLD WOMAN
You'll be laying more than eggs when I've finished with you sonny! Where have you been this last week!? It was my birthday not long ago and you've not delivered one single card!

POSTMAN
Happy Birthday

OLD WOMAN
What!?

POSTMAN
Better late than never madam

OLD WOMAN
Give me my post!

The OLD WOMAN snatches the post from the POSTMAN's hands

OLD WOMAN
Look at all this post! All these birthday cards! I've been phoning everyone I know! Demanding where my cards were! I thought no one cared! And all along it was you not doing your job properly! You incompetent fool! I've made such an idiot of myself!

POSTMAN
I can explain madam!

OLD WOMAN
Well it better be good!

POSTMAN
It's your cat you see...

OLD WOMAN
My cat!?

POSTMAN
Yes, your cat! It attacks me! Every morning without fail! It waits for me! I'm afraid it's gone quite mad madam!

OLD WOMAN
Captain Snuggles!?

POSTMAN
That's his name?

OLD WOMAN
He's just a cat!

POSTMAN
A cat with a chip on his shoulder madam

OLD WOMAN
A chip where!? Don't talk nonsense! He's a good kitty!

POSTMAN
Oh he's quite the opposite, madam! He sits in the shadows! Watching me! Taunting me! And then when I get to your front door...he strikes!

The POSTMAN makes a show of "jumping out of the shadows" and the woman jumps

OLD WOMAN
Have you gone mad?

POSTMAN
I used to think it was the smell of fish!

OLD WOMAN
Fish!?

POSTMAN
Yes! You see I'm quite fond of tuna sandwiches

OLD WOMAN
Tuna sandwiches!?

POSTMAN
I used to carry one with me all the time. For lunch. I thought it must of been that you see? But now I just carry a Pot Noodle!

OLD WOMAN
A Pot Noodle!?

POSTMAN
Yes madam! A Pot Noodle! It's sealed, you see? Doesn't smell! But I didn't think it through! I need hot water! Where do I get hot water!? I'm a postman! I can't just carry a kettle around with me! And where would I plug it into!? I would need a plug socket! And where would that go to!?

OLD WOMAN
Well I-

POSTMAN
You let me finish damn it! I would need a generator! A blasted generator! All for a blasted Pot Noodle! Is that what you want!? Do you want me to drag a generator around with me where ever I go!?

OLD WOMAN
Of course not!

POSTMAN
I ate it dry yesterday madam! A DRY POT NOODLE! Oh the shame! If my father could see me now! No one should ever have to eat a dry Pot Noodle! I mean, my tears softened the noodles a little but it wasn't enough, madam! It just wasn't enough!

The POSTMAN breaks down in tears

POSTMAN
Oh no! It's him! Oh for the love of god!

The POSTMAN turns and runs away down the garden path

CAPTAIN SNUGGLES (O.S)
Oi! I've told you! I'll rip your bloody eyes out!

A man dressed as a cat chases the POSTMAN down the garden clutching a baseball bat

I thought it would be funnier if he was ranting with a welsh accent Laughing out loud

Phil Mitchell in the cat suit would be perfect!

Too many ideas, mate.

1. Old woman who doesn't get her cards.
2. Postie afraid of cat - rather than usual dog
3. The whole pot Noodle escalation
4. Man dressed as cat.

Needs to a bit more single-minded - rambles a bit at the moment.

I thought the old woman who doesn't get her cards was just an opening and a reason for her to come out and go wild at the guy.
The whole thing was just based on a postman affraid of a cat (rather than the stereotypical dog). The cat was always going to end up being a man dressed as a cat with a bat.

The pot noodle part just came to me as I was writing it. The thought of someone like Rob Brydon dressed as a postman ranting about a pot noodle just made me giggle.

I can see what you mean though mate.

Thanks for the imput :)

It has potential, I enjoyed reading it and you've put a lot of effort into it, but I think you've overthought things slightly, in particular, the postman. His nationality isn't integral to the skecth, so I wouldn't mention it.

I suggest you take another look at the old ladies dialog, most of it is repeating what the other character has already said, or space fillers like 'well it better be good' or 'have you gone mad'.

Share the good lines out between them and you'll that will help to get to the punch quicker.

Could you find a better out, a man in a cat suit does seem a little cliche?

No.

Sorry geezer, a proper tumble weed blowing across the Praire moment for me.

How about

EXT. OLD LADY'S GARDEN - MORNING

A POSTMAN creeps down the garden path. Suddenly an OLD WOMAN bursts out of her front door and confronts the POSTMAN

OLD LADY
You!

The POSTMAN nearly jumps out of his skin

POSTMAN
Jesus woman! I nearly laid an egg!

OLD WOMAN
You'll be laying more than eggs when I've finished with you sonny! Where have you been this last week!? It was my birthday not long ago and you've not delivered one single card!

The OLD WOMAN snatches the post from the POSTMAN's hands

OLD WOMAN
Look at all this post! All these birthday cards! I've been phoning everyone I know! Demanding where my cards were! I thought no one cared! And all along it was you not doing your job properly! You incompetent fool!

POSTMAN
I can explain madam!

OLD WOMAN
Well it better be good!

POSTMAN
I'm a pedophile

OLD WOMAN
No your not

POSTMAN
Yes I am

OLD WOMAN
I might be old, but I'm not stupid sonny, Michael Jackson isn't, never was and never will be a postman!

POSTMAN
True, but, I am Bad though

OLD WOMAN
Yes you are, you have bundled a letter for Fritzl in with my mail. Holidays to Thailand is it, flash bugger.

END

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