The comeback tour

Just an idea I had this evening.

SOME FORM OF FUNKY OFFICE. A PR / EVENTS COMPANY. DANNY AND CHRISSY ARE CHATTING. BOTH ARE 30-SOMETHING MARKETING TYPES.

DANNY: The barrel is dry

CHRISSY: No, it can't be. There must be more.

DANNY: It was great while it lasted, but we're going to have to find new acts.

CHRISSY: Hang on, let's think. We've had Take That, they made us millions. Boyzone – decent, The Spice Girls, yeah it's a complete f**king disaster in some ways, but they're making money. There must be more.

DANNY: There isn't. We're doing New Kids, All Saints reformed and East 17 are touring the Far East again. Jesus, we've even tried Another Level, Let Loose and 911.

CHRISSY: Upside Down?

DANNY: They're busy

CHRISSY: BB MAK

DANNY: Contracted to Carphone Warehouse

CHRISSY: Samantha Mumba

DANNY: She's doing Dancing on Ice

CHRISSY: Vanilla? Daphne and Celeste? The Bluetones? Shed Seven? Kavanagh? Adam Ricketts? Tina Arena? Blazin Squad? That Blazin Squad offshoot? Rik Weller?

DANNY: No. Please stop. I've thought of everyone, but it's useless.

CHRISSY: Fast Food Rockers?

DANNY: No

CHRISSY: The Fountains of Wayne F....... Hang on, I've got it. We need to think differently. It's not just musical greats that are ripe for the picking. Think Danny, why are all the old bands doing so well?

DANNY: Because current music is shit?

CHRISSY: Precisely. And what else is shit?

DANNY: Film?

CHRISSY (SARCASTIC): F**king brilliant. We'll dig up Orson Welles and get him directing again. No, think?

DANNY: Sport? Bring back Becks?

CHRISSY: No.... Politics. Like music, it was bad in the 80s and 90s, but it's a hell of a lot worse now. I'm seeing books, I'm seeing DVDs.

DANNY: And tours of universities and public speeches.

CHRISSY: And I've got the perfect people. Like Take That, they're slightly past their prime, but their lovable and huggable And, they would have pissed a (DOES INVERTED COMMAS SYMBOL) crisis like Northern Rock for breakfast. You know who I'm talking about?

DANNY: Major and Lamont. The comeback tour.

CHRISSY: Black Monday revisited. Bring it on.

It's a good punchline, and the idea of a comeback tour for recession is good. But it is way, way to long, and the journey is not funny enough, to justify a good but not stellar punch.

Stick some groaner punches on the way

Upside Down in Australia

From Boys to Men to has beens

East 17, doing 17 to life.

They're are naff but enough of them would build their own energy.

Mm, I thought it was a bit rambling TBH. The punchline was nowhere near funny enough to justify the protracted trek to get to it. Could be trimmed, chopped and reformed though. Like finest Spam.

Mmmm Spam, you know Christian missionaries gave it to cannibal tribes as a substitute for human flesh.

I see what you guys mean, also the punchline isn't amazing.

However, I think there's the germ of an idea here - taking the spate of music comebacks into another field. Also, I reckon the dialogue is decent, even if there is too much of it.

Throwing in a few of those style gags is a good idea, sooty, though it has to sound like dialogue, rather than joke, joke, joke which doesn't set a scene as well.

But maybe better to move onto other, stronger sketches and ideas.