British Comedy Guide

Anyone watching Panorama right now?

INT. HIGH TECH SURVEILLANCE VAN

CHIEF: What are they up to now?

GUY AT MONITER: They've bought a large amount of soft drinks, some disposable cameras and several key ingrediants used for making explosives and... the views obscured but they seem to be setting up something big.

CHIEF: Right (DOES SOME TOUGH DECISION MAKING) We're going in!

INT. INSIDE HOUSE

POLICE SWARM IN AND BEGIN HANDCUFFING THE YOUNG MUSLIM RESIDENTS. THE CHIEF CONFRONTS ONE OF THEM?!

CHIEF: What's going on here?

MUSLIM GUY: I...

CHIEF: What's under that sheet?

THE MUSLIM GUY LOOKS LIKE HE'S A BOUT TO ARGUE BUT THEN CONCEEDS. HE TAKES THE SHEET OFF THE LARGE OBJECT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROOM, IT TURNS OUT TO BE A GIANT CAKE.

CHIEF: What the...

EVERYONE (INCLUDING POLICE): HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CHIEF JENKINS!

EVERYONE SMILES, FIZZY DRINKS GET HANDED ONE. ONE OF THE HOUSE RESIDENTS (WHILE STILL HANDCUFFED) HAS A DISPOSABLE CAMERA.

RESIDENT: Say cheese! (CLICK)

CHIEF: Ha ha ha, Aw... You lot!!

SUDDENLY A MAN BURSTS OUT OF THE CAKE HOLDING A DETONATOR AND COVERED IN EXPLOSIVES

CAKEMAN: RRRAAAAAAAARRRGGHHHHH!!!

CHIEF: ARRRRGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!

CAKEMAN: RRRRAAARRRGGGHHHHH!!!

CHIEF: ARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!

THE MAN IN THE CAKE PUSHES THE DETONATOR. THERE'S A SOFT POP AND PARTY STREAMERS FLY OUT OF THE EXPLOSIVES.

THE CHIEF IS IN SHOCK, HE TURNS AROUND SLOWLY A POINTS AT THE FIRST GUY HE TALKED TO

CHIEF: (AMUSED) AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!

EVERYONE LAUGHS. THE END

Lovely sketch a very cute twist on a dark subject.

And a nice surprise as well.

Oh and it's funny.

Figure away to make it performable on a stage.

I like this one a lot.

Enjoyable, funny, nicely done.

I watched Panorama last night Eggie and this is a good sketch related to it.

Yes, a good one and offends no one.

We-e-e-ll, I expect someone will be offended somewhere, you can almost guarantee it!

That's really very good. Beautifully treads the line between the audience feeling the policeman's fear and then the humourous relief. Great :)

I like it. :)

Thought at first it was gonna touch people's sensitive nerves... but then the cake appeared. :P

Well I'm glad people like it.
I guess the lesson here is to sketches quickly straight into forums while watching television.

Yeah, but make sure you glance at the keyboard from time to time :P

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