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"Paper, Stone, Scissors" Radio Sketch

Dear all; first sketch I've posted. Yes - a bit long, p'raps; my thinking is the absurdity of verbal PSS may take a while to sink in on radio? Thanks for any comments and criticism!

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ANDY:Right, you can go first.

BARRY:Okay; I'm saying scissors.

A:You're going scissors. I'll go… stone.

B:Right. Well, you win that one.

A:Oh, yeah. You go again.

B:Paper.

A:Scissors.

B:You win.

A:Yep.

B:Nice. Okay, stone.

A:Paper.

B:God. You're - you're good at this.

A:I've got a system.

B:Oh, I see.

A:Yeah.

B:You want to go first?

A:Okay, er – scissors.

B:Oh, well, paper.

A:I said scissors, you said paper; I win that one.

B:Damn. That's – I don't know how you do that.

A:Practice makes perfect. Stone.

B:Stone.

A:Oh, draw.

B:Hmm.

A:Barry?

B:Yeah?

A:Do you think it would be better to play this game in some other way?

B:What?

A:Well, we're just saying "scissors", "paper" and "stone" in turns. I can't help feeling that one of us is being advantaged somehow.

B:I don't see how it could be improved.

A:What if we made some sort of gesture which designated our choice between scissors, paper and stone?

B:How?

A:We could use our hands to roughly mimic the shapes simultaneously.

B:Works in theory, but you've missed a trick here.

A:How do you mean?

B:We don't have hands; we're just disembodied voices.

A:Ah.

FIN.

Tommy

I like the idea of Father Dougal type eejits playing stone-paper-scissors one person at a time; but as for the "we're just disembodied voices' punchline, considering that radio is a very old medium, I would assume that it has been done before, or that if it hasn't there is a reason (i.e. it isn't funny).

Do keep trying.

Hello! Cheers for the reply. I haven't lifted the ending - we don't have radio comedy in Australia... I can see it would probably have been used already, though. If you can think of a better finish, feel free to re-write.

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