British Comedy Guide

Application

A YOUNG MARRIED COUPLE (MR AND MRS PUGH) ARE MAKING A MORTGAGE APPLICATION.

BANK MANAGER:
Well, Mr and Mrs Pugh, we've considered your application very carefully, but in the current climate we believe it to be too much of a risk.

MR PUGH:
But we're desperate. Food and shelter, they're basic human requirements. We need to live.

BANK MANAGER:
The fact remains, without sufficient collateral, we cannot give you this mortgage.

MR PUGH:
Have my wife.

MRS PUGH:
What?

MR PUGH:
My wife. You can have her if we default.

MRS PUGH:
Andrew!

BANK MANAGER:
Look, Mr Pugh, you cannot use your wife to cover your loan.

MR PUGH:
Are you sure? She's a right goer. Shags like Jodie Marsh if you press the right buttons.

BANK MANAGER:
Mr Pugh! That is not acceptable. In any case, I happen to be gay.

MR PUGH:
Errrrm, all right then. I'll give you a kiss. No tongues.

BANK MANAGER:
Mr Pugh!

MR PUGH:
OK, tongues. And a blow job.

BANK MANAGER:
Mr Pugh! Our decision is final.

MRS PUGH STARTS CRYING.

MR PUGH:
It's all right, my love.

MRS PUGH:
We only wanted to buy a loaf of bread.

END.

I rahter like this zippy sketch it's certainly funny and worth sending off.

2 small thoughts a couple of the lines are to much of an over statement in my view.

The food and shelter one, and the bread one at the end.

I think if she said told you we couldn't afford to shop at Waitrose or something.

Otherwise great idea well executed.

Very good.

Most kind.

Nice writing, funny

It runs along nicely, but the ending is somewhat flat.

Perhaps, the bank manager refuses to sleep with Mrs Pugh, so the Pugh's get up to leave. As Mr Pugh goes to leave, the bank manager calls him back in. The bank manager then reveals he's gay and that there is 'one way' to get a mortgage in these hard times. I'm sure there's a funny line you could end on.

Saying that, "I'm gay" endings always seem a little hacky to me.

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