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NJ Sun on Sunday Reject

JUSTIN Love it or hate it, the Sun newspaper is the Marmite of print journalism, it's bottom of the barrel and if you used it as toilet paper you'd probably develop a yeast infection.

But media mogul Rupert Murdock has finally announced the launch of Sun on Sunday, a decision so long predicted that even Nostradamus saw it coming.

To get the exclusive on this story we thought we'd follow in our print-cousins' footsteps and hack someone's phone; let's have a listen.

JAMES (RECORDING) James Murdock, leave me a message

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RUPERT Jim? Jim? Struth I bloody hate voicemail, it's got me in enough bloody trouble. Jim it's your old man, Sun on Sunday is really getting my knickers in a twist. It's like my dad used to say you can chain a bunch of monkeys to typewriters but all you'll get are some angry monkeys and a lot of faecal covered paper. And if I wanted that I'd have bought the Daily Mail. Now sort it out!

FX CLICK

FEMALE VOICE Next message

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RUPERT
Jimmy it's your old man again. Just letting you know I've informed the staff about the Sun on Sunday. And I've also told them that if we find any evidence of criminal activity we'll be handing it over to the police.
(CHUCKLING)
I keep telling the accountant that I'm serious.
(LAUGHING)
He's crapping himself.

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FEMALE VOICE Next message

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RUPERT Jimmy, me again. You're right, it's like what I said at that select committee last year...

(SILENCE)

FX SNORING

FEMALE VOICE Next message

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FX MORE SNORING

FEMALE VOICE Next message

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RUPERT
(STARTLED WAKING UP SOUNDS)
What the koala? Where the bloody kangaroo am I? Is this still on? Jimmy before I forget, the Leveson inquiry's been riding me like Blackpool donkey on a day out to the pleasure beach, so bring the haemorrhoid cream.

Like the intro, and the sketch uses the medium well and you catch Rupes voice; but the sketch does not seem to have much of a unifying idea.

I think your right, I tried to make it more joke based which I think pulled away from a single through line.

The sketch kind of suffers from the fact that it never tops the first joke in the intro.

But then it was a very good joke in the intro ...

I think your right, got a much better sketch though for next weeks show...

To be honest, you could have sent these as JackApps and if they liked them, they would have run them.

It's alright but, as Timbo said, needs one throughline.

Dan

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