British Comedy Guide

Hospital Docusoap Sketch

Ext. Hospital. Day

A full exterior shot of a hospital is seen.

Voiceover: Doctors and nurses aren’t the only essential staff at St Mary’s Hospital. The security team also play an important role.

Cut To: Int. Small Room.

A security guard is looking into the camera. The text “Harry Watkins – Head of security” appears on the bottom left of the screen and then disappears.

Interviewer: (O.O.V) How long have you been working at St Mary’s Hospital for?

Harry: Just coming up to 18 months now. I started off-

Harry is interrupted by his walkie-talkie crackling into life.

Walkie Talkie: We’ve got a code 5. Repeat – Code 5! Backup required immediately.

Harry: Sweet Jesus!

Interviewer: (O.O.V) What exactly is a code 5?

Harry: Necrophiliacs.

Cut To: Int. Corridor

Harry is standing by some double doors with a sign above which reads “MORGUE”. Harry looks into the camera.

Harry: We usually get 3 or 4 trying to get in here every day. Usually we stop them, but it looks like we cocked up today.

Two security guards emerge from the morgue. They’re manhandling two men who are pulling up their trousers. The camera hones in on one of the men’s faces.

Interviewer: (O.O.V) Why exactly do you do this?

Man: Because I believe in love! Be it the love between a man and a woman, or between a man and the corpse of a woman! Wait, can you pixellate my face out?

The man’s face becomes pixellated.

Cut To: Ext. Hospital. Day

A full exterior shot of the hospital is seen.

Voiceover: With the necrophiliacs contained, St Mary’s Hospital is safe once again. But for how long?

A dramatic drumbeat is played.

ENDS

I like this, good idea, nicely done. At the end I imagined the wide of the hospital and slowly, Dawn of The Dead style, necrophiliacs creeping closer to the hospital in a real siege scenario.

Good work.

WL nice to be seeing the darker sketches again.

Love it my friend, love it :D

As a necrophiliac myself, I enjoyed this a lot :)

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