NJ reject

Justin - Abu Qatada is facing deportation when the government receives assurances he will not be tortured upon his return - they have sworn on their moms life but refuse to pinky swear. We are now joined by Jordanian representative Ali Muhammad

Ali - Thanks for having me

Justin - What do you say to people who think you will torture Mr. Qatada to obtain information on his alleged crimes?

Ali - That is the old Jordan we have come a long way since those archaic days

Justin - You passed the law banning evidence obtained via torture in September

Ali - Yes, but the clocks went back in October so that's an extra hour

Justin - Coincidently that's Abu's allocated play time. What you may not be aware of is we obtained a document from your office entitled "items to not torture Abu with"

Ali - See "not"

Justin - The "Not"s written in biro. First on the list is a machete. How do you explain that?

Ali - (Unsure) We're having steak at his welcome home lunch - fair trade of course

Justin - Benefit of the doubt. What about the chainsaw you purchased?

Ali - (Unsure) We're making an ice sculpture to welcome him home

Justin - Could be true. A smock to protect against splatters?

Ali - If you can think of a better way to protect our clothing whilst painting a fun characterture of Abu I'd like to hear it

Justin - None spring to mind. You also purchased eye lid sticky tape and a DVD of the Hollyoaks Omnibus

Ali - I'm a fan!

Justin - You expect me to believe that!?

The sketch needs more of a point, I would say, rather than just a list of questions that are being bounced back. Try and have some sort of action happening at some point too.

It fizzles out, and needs a stronger punchline to finish.

Dan

I had more action in the orignal when the interview was happening on the phone and you could hear the chain saw etc rather than having a list but think I changed it becuase I could not justify why he wouldn't be in the studio or I was sleep deprived and just thought it was better at the time.