CHILD'S PLAY
TV STUDIO.
BOASTT and DEANE.
BOASTT Good evening, ladies and gentlemen and you, and welcome to this morning's edition of The Show For South Bankers, a phrase you Cockneys will understand. In tonight's show we'll be analysing the mind, pricking your brains and hanging around in little grey cells with child psychologist Roger A. Deane. Mr Deane, welcome.
DEANE Hiya.
BOASTT Mr Deane, I've just completed your latest tome, Child Psychiatry.
DEANE (enthusiastic) Did you like it? I wrote it all by myself!
BOASTT I'm afraid I found it infantile, immature and superficial.
DEANE I know you are.
BOASTT Would you care to elaborate?
DEANE (thinks) I know you are, but what am I?
BOAST I must say I preferred the earlier essay by your rival, Claude Nobbes, 'Inside The Mind Of the Infant...'
DEANE I liked it first.
BOASTT Yes, but I preferred it.
DEANE I like it more than you. It's my FAVOURITE book!
BOASTT I think you'll find that I...
DEANE Liar, liar, yer pants are on fire!
BOASTT Mr Deane, please!
DEANE All right. We like it both the same.
BOASTT Good. Now Mr Nobbes is highly considered...
DEANE Clever clogs!
BOASTT So how did you find his work?
DEANE Easy peasy, Japanesey.
BOASTT Again, would you care to...?
DEANE (sighs) Easy peasy, Japanesy, lemon squeezy.
BOASTT That's better. Now recently Nobbes criticised your work as inept, incompetent and inconclusive...
DEANE Back at you!
BOASTT Calling you an uninformed dilettante...
DEANE Takes one to know one.
BOASTT So, what are we looking at here?
DEANE Don't know: don't label shit.
BOASTT And what are you doing about this?
DEANE Nothing, Sir.
BOASTT Why not?
DEANE Don't know, Sir. Sorry, Sir.
BOASTT Are you sure?
DEANE Cross my heart and hope to die.
BOASTT Again, would you...?
DEANE (sighs) Cross my heart and hope to die. Stick a football in my eye.
BOASTT And how would you react to Nobbes' allegations?
DEANE That's for me to know and you to find out.
BOASTT Good. Now, how did you choose this profession?
DEANE Eenie, meenie, minee, mo.
BOAST And what if anyone attempts to steal your crown?
DEANE Finders, keepers.
BOASTT Again, would...?
DEANE No.
BOASTT Why not?
DEANE Ask a stupid question...
BOASTT Well Mr Deane, I'll have to end now.
DEANE Miss me, miss me, never never kiss me.
BOASTT And I'll see you next week.
DEANE Not if I see you first.