Wedding Hat

INT. MARQUEE. EVE

A WEDDING RECEPTION PARTY IS IN FULL SWING. ALL THE MEN ARE IN BLACK TIE. HUSBAND AND WIFE ARE DEEP IN CONVERSATION

P.O.V. FROM WIFE

WIFE
So I said Charlotte must come down and see us before the baby is [SHE PAUSES]

HUSBAND
Darling, are you alright?

WIFE
Oh god, how embarassing, that bloody Julia Green is wearing the same hat.

HUSBAND
It's OK darling. I'm wearing the same as everyone else.

WIFE
(ANGRY) Not really the same is it.

CAMERA PANS BACK REVEALING THE WIFE SPORTING AN ENORMOUS COCK HAT, THE EXACT SAME COCK HAT AS A WOMAN NEARBY. THE TWO COCK HATTED LADIES EXCHANGE GLARES

END

Hi Nick, very silly, very stupid and very childish! Did it make me laugh? Well, yes it did and that's what it is meant to do isn't it!
On the down side might be in the shooting. To give an impression of it indeed being a "party in full swing" you may need many people and a lot of props etc. To go to that expense and to those lengths for such a short sketch it may need to be hilariously funny (or alternatively come up with several sketches taking place within the same wedding reception). Idea behind it is funny though even if it was a visual knob-joke!
Cheers,
Andy.

I too liked it but this line confused me:

HUSBAND
It's OK darling. I'm wearing the same as everyone else.

The way it was worded, I expected it to end with us seeing that it was the husband who was wearing a woman's hat, identical to the stranger.

Costwise, you'd have to settle for man and woman against blank wall with party sounds and a shot of the other woman against a blank wall. You can see what kind of budget I'm used to working with.

Yeah, very silly and very funny.

The line SlagA picked up on confused me too. Maybe you could change it to something like "Stop worrying, I doubt anyone's noticed" and then pan out.

How immature...................................I loved it. the man wearing the same thing as a women sketch has been done by the way.

thanks andy. As you can imagine, my mother is very proud I'm still writing cock gags at the age of 30 and three quarters!

Spot on re shooting. It could be re-worked but i think a grandiose setting is best suited to contrast with the hats.

cheers

Nick

PS If anyone is having a wedding reception and doesn't mind taking a few minutes out for us to film 'cock hats' please let me know.

ahhhhh Nick rivers now I know more I am a fan of the shit I mean site, your toilet humour, I take back my immature comment I expect it from you really. (in a good way of course).

Thanks you lot. See what you mean re that line. I padded the sketch out this morning, to include the opening exchange, the sketch previously being just:

INT. MARQUEE. EVE

A WEDDING RECEPTION PARTY IS IN FULL SWING. ALL THE MEN ARE IN BLACK TIE. HUSBAND AND WIFE ARE DEEP IN CONVERSATION

P.O.V. FROM WIFE

HUSBAND
It's OK darling. I'm wearing the same as everyone else.

WIFE
(ANGRY) Not really the same is it.

CAMERA PANS BACK REVEALING THE WIFE SPORTING AN ENORMOUS COCK HAT, THE EXACT SAME COCK HAT AS A WOMAN NEARBY. THE TWO COCK HATTED LADIES EXCHANGE GLARES

"PS If anyone is having a wedding reception and doesn't mind taking a few minutes out for us to film 'cock hats' please let me know. "

I can see it now - a couple in their eighties reminiscing to their grandchildren how their wedding day was so wonderful and how much fun it was in helping some guy called Nick and his thirty-something mates film two women wearing giant genitalia on their heads. Yes, those were the good old days.

Cocks and weddings go hand in hand. I was best man a few years ago, and all that was in my speach was cock gags. You can't go wrong!

Quote: Andy W. @ February 16, 2007, 10:49 AM

I can see it now - a couple in their eighties reminiscing to their grandchildren how their wedding day was so wonderful and how much fun it was in helping some guy called Nick and his thirty-something mates film two women wearing giant genitalia on their heads. Yes, those were the good old days.

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Is that a 'veiled' invite to your wedding reception Andy ?!

I've been asked to be a best man at a friends wedding within the next few years I already have "I remember his first girlfriend... it was going great till she deflated!" oh my! That’ll bring the house down!

If it doesn't I'll accuse one of them of cheating, if I can't create comedy I'll create drama.

I started off with a belter. I stood up with a tea towel hanging in front of my lap, I began..."I've been very nervous about making this speech, and have been thinking of ways to combat those nerves. Then I thought about that old proverb that advises you imagine you audience naked to calm yourself. Well I've done that, and i tell you what ladys, it's worked a treat!" I had a coat hanger behind the tea towel, when twisted up, it looked like I had a large erection!

.......thinking about it, it could of went either way that one. luckily it went down well.

The next few years! Don't they realise that comedy writers can't write to deadlines

I like it lots - especially the shorter original version. No fluff.