British Comedy Guide

A Christmas Related Sketch

The opening shot is of a company boss up on a stage and making a speech at his company's Christmas do party..............(with maybe a banner hanging up overhead behind him to help set the scene)

BOSS
.......so last but not least, I want to thank you all for your efforts over the last year and wish you all a Merry Christmas and announce that the bar is now open.

Applause from the staff and then it shows a closer shot of a few of the female staff chatting....

CHERYL
Here SUZIE, get me a vodka and coke and I'll b back in a mo.

So Cheryl goes away and then reappears in the next shot and joins the end of a long queue of women frustratingly waiting in line.

CHERYL
(to colleague ahead of her in the queue)
That's the one thing I really hate about these do's, there's always a queue for these bloody things!

The camera goes to a wider shot and you see the woman at the front of the queue crouch and lower her knickers to her ankles, just before the woman ahead of her is shown sat on the photocopier, taking a photocopy of her arse!

I'd originally called this one Lowering the Tone(r) but didn't want to give any clues to the outcome this time. I suppose it could just as equally be any kind of do too and doesn't have to be a Christmas one but it was last Christmas when I wrote it.

Also, I know that I spelt the plural of "Do" as "Do's" but if I'd put dos, it looks like that computer language thingie.

It works, made me smile and I’m not in a funny mood

Good one - like it

Thank you gents.

Yep, ticks the box. Could have a shot of a guy leaving the gents' immediately before we see Cheryl in the queue to reinforce the impression that she's also going to the toilet.

Very good. Made me laugh. I think it would work really well. Might benefit from cutting the last bit of dialogue short as it doesn't ring true - i.e. get rid of "for these bloody things" and just end on "...queue." So to speak.
This small matter aside, a very good one.

Yeah that sounds like a good idea badge, thanks for the advice and glad you like the joke anyway. :)

And as with a lot of things, I think it works even better visually if it was ever filmed.

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