British Comedy Guide

Weird

INT. NIGHT. EXCLUSIVE NIGHTCLUB.

TWO MEN DRESSED IN OILY OVERALLS APPROACH TWO GLAMOROUS WOMEN.

MAN: I own a large traction engine and my friend part owns a steamroller.

WOMAN: That's the most ridiculous chat up line I've ever heard.

MAN: Ridiculous? You two are mutton dressed as lamb.

WOMAN: Look around you, bumpkin. Feel outta place?

THE TWO MEN SLOWLY SURVEY THE WELL DRESSED CLIENTELE.

MAN: It is an up market crowd Bill, there's no getting away from that.

MAN 2: Yeah, think I'll drink this and erm, mosey on.

MAN: I'll probably join you.

eh?

Embarrassment of the two guys, no?

Oh I see, I think you might need to play up their bumpkiness a little.

What if they whistled and got the girls into the back of a van using sheep dogs?

I think that 'Weird' lacks an input which could be overcome by an Exclusive Club's coldhearted preamble. This could be determined with a steamroller moseying on to a somewhat different approach.

I'd advise that you be careful that the oily overalls do not transmogrify an erection; this could be seen as an alternative to an engorged phallus-like vision wearing a straw boater. Therefore, the less the two men talk to the mutton dressed as lampshades the more they will erotically attract the two glamorous women.

You should try to distill 'Weird' with a subset which might encourage attraction or affiliation to a traction engine. The more they mix, the less they enthuse drearily. It's better to farm vehicles than to exterminate the punchline dumpster within this sketch.

Hope that helps.

I wonder what Fred Dibnah would have made of it.

A TV series I imagine.

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