So, describe the sitcom that you've always wanted to write, and will get around to creating eventually.
― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 11 January 2004 12:32 (twenty-two years ago)
― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 11 January 2004 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)
― Hmmm, Sunday, 11 January 2004 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)
― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 11 January 2004 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 11 January 2004 13:57 (twenty-two years ago)
― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 11 January 2004 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)
― NA (Nick A.), Sunday, 11 January 2004 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 11 January 2004 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 11 January 2004 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)
(It'll never work.)
― Nick H (Nick H), Sunday, 11 January 2004 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)
Good news for stevem
― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 11 January 2004 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 11 January 2004 17:25 (twenty-two years ago)
― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 11 January 2004 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ian Johnson (orion), Sunday, 11 January 2004 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)
― Phoebe Dinsmore, Monday, 12 January 2004 09:31 (twenty-two years ago)
― Nick H (Nick H), Monday, 12 January 2004 09:37 (twenty-two years ago)
― Phoebe Dinsmore, Monday, 12 January 2004 09:46 (twenty-two years ago)
― stevem (blueski), Monday, 12 January 2004 11:14 (twenty-two years ago)
― Phoebe Dinsmore, Monday, 12 January 2004 11:17 (twenty-two years ago)
My sitcom: a heavily made-up Peter Serafinowicz takes the title role in Dad's Barmy, as a bitter, cynical scouse Dad who has taken to reading The Daily Express at an advanced age and spends most episodes swapping oft-repeated, now barely comprehensible anecdotes with his ruddy-faced compadres in the betting shop (played by James Ellis, John Henshaw, Sam Kelly).
At night, Scouse Dad dreams of a life in 1960s Australia (Serafinowicz sans make-up) as a bewilderingly successful club singer and comic, with palatial Melbourne home complete with Brian Labone-shaped swimming pool. He wakes up screaming each night as his strangely disaffected Oz-born kids, Dean and Lawton, vanish in a puff of blue smoke each time he tries to talk to them.
In the confusing and pretentious sixth and last episode Scouse Dad is joined by his bronzed fantasy alter-ego, Henshaw, Ellis and Kelly, and together they steal a JCB and accidentally demolish Goodison Park. Bleak.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:26 (twenty-two years ago)
I am going to write a sitcom about a comically mismatched yet loving couple living above a pub in Clerkenwell while assorted flatmates, visitors of varying nationalities and motorbike couriers come and go... features a "hilarious" climactic scene involving a naked Momus careening down a hill on a pushbike.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:28 (twenty-two years ago)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 12 January 2004 12:36 (twenty-two years ago)
A suburban Illinois family is forced to take in a great uncle with a Nazi war criminal background. They hope to keep a lid on the past, but things get complicated when Yoram, an over-friendly and slightly clueless ex-Mossad agent moves in next door! Wackiness ensues as Heinrich, still recovering from a stroke, involuntarily sig heils and mutters Nazi slogans at unexpected moments.
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 28 September 2006 02:28 (nineteen years ago)
― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 28 September 2006 02:29 (nineteen years ago)
― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Thursday, 28 September 2006 11:00 (nineteen years ago)
― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 28 September 2006 11:18 (nineteen years ago)
― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 28 September 2006 11:19 (nineteen years ago)
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 28 September 2006 11:21 (nineteen years ago)
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 28 September 2006 11:22 (nineteen years ago)
isn't there something from the uk in the 70s about hitler living next door, like love your neighbour taken to the logical extreme? sure i've seen one on one of those 'the 70s, what were we thinking?' shows.
― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Thursday, 28 September 2006 11:33 (nineteen years ago)
Children's show. The hilarious animated antics of a Beagle with a pair of shoes crammed down its gullet.
― teh_kit (g-kit), Thursday, 28 September 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 28 September 2006 11:40 (nineteen years ago)
― teh_kit (g-kit), Thursday, 28 September 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)
I don't think the time's right just yet for a Dick Emery revival.
Mind you there is Little Britain.
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 28 September 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 28 September 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)
― teh_kit (g-kit), Thursday, 28 September 2006 12:01 (nineteen years ago)
Situation: A cabaret dance troupe in a foreign night club, in a foreign land.
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 28 September 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)
(From the PA outside)Hector: “And now, I bring you the Varlarian Show Group, and “Hawaii Holiday!!!”
(In the dressing room)Gary: “He says that like it’s his show!”Liz: “It is.”Judy: “STOP! He’s introduced Hawaii!!! It’s the Rock and Roll show! (throws shoe) Bryan!! BRYAN!!!”(Bryan enters the dressing room)Bryan: “Right, we’ve got 30 seconds to change to the Hawaii Holiday. Gary, you’re dressed reasonably safe, just take your trousers off and look like you’re in Waikiki!”Philip: “Hold up, I’m dressed as a chicken!”Bryan: “We’ve got ten minutes until you’re on, I’ll think of something. Liz, grab those coconuts!”Liz: “And do what with them?”Bryan: “Improvise! I dunno! Go on Gary, you’re on! Hang on, you can’t go on commando!”Gary: “I wasn’t going to! I’ve found the grass skirt. I’ll have to keep the long coat.”Bryan: “OK, pretend it’s raining or something.”Liz: “OK, I’ve got the other skirt, we can do this one together Gary. Me in my silk shirt, and you in a long coat. This is going to be beautiful.”(They both leave.)Judy: “Well, I don’t care. I’m doing Willie and the hand jive, whatever music is on when I am”Philip: “Right, can I say something? (calmly)Tonight is a disaster, right? So there’s no point in getting overstressed, we aint dancing our way out of this one. So, let’s do as best we can, and laugh about it later. Sez Philip, dressed as a chicken, live at the Valarian show group.”Bryan: “Right, give me those cigarettes! I don’t trust you anymore.”
(later)
From the PA outside:Hector: “Ladies and gentlemen, give them a big hand! Hawaii at Easter!”(Everyone re-enters the empty dressing room)Bryan: “Oh, and Phil, you’re supposed to be a Robin. Rockin’ Robin, get it?”Phil: “But robins don’t lay eggs.”Bryan: “That’s got nothing to do with it. It’s the song in the Rock and Roll show.”Liz: “Well, I’m glad he said it. Hawaii at Eastertime.”Bryan: “Yeah, I guess so. At least, that’ll be the last time we do the Hawaii show. They’ll never have that one on again.”Judy: “Oh, god, I am so sorry. Did I look really stupid?”Bryan: “No, no, Willie and the hand jive just seemed to work on top of the Banana boat song. (amazed) I have no idea why, but there it is.”Gary: “I need a drink.”Philip: “So do I”Bryan: “Hang on, what do you mean, robins don’t lay eggs! Course they do!”Philip: “Not for easter they don’t”Bryan: “What, they stop laying eggs for the whole of easter? Out of respect or something?”Gary: “Ah whatever. You getting changed Phil?”Philip: “No, I don’t want to be recognised”
(later, early morning, walking down the street outside)Philip: “Well, it just meant I didn’t have to shell out for drinks”Gary: “You mean, you did that on purpose?”Philip: “I’m not totally dense you know!”Gary: “Well, I’ve never seen as many people queuing up to buy raki for a chicken”Philip: “Yeahhh. Ah, I’m back to get changed out of this. Were you proud of me?”Gary: “Why, should I have been?”Philip: “I never once did the cock joke”Gary: “Hang up, there’s Bryan. WOY! What’s the result then?”Bryan: “Don’t ask. I just got collared by Hector.”Gary: “Ah, sorry. We should have stuck around, was he mad?”Bryan: “No, not especially, No more than normal. He did say he’s not going to do the post mortem in the morning, so that’s a lie in for everyone anyway.”Philip: “Right, I’m definitely getting out of this then.”Bryan: “No, he thought it was wonderful, and wants to keep it exactly like that.”Gary: “Oh, WHAT?”Philip: “Right, I’m definitely getting out of this.”Gary: “Why?”Philip: “I definitely don’t want to be recognised.”
(back at the bar)Liz: “You want to wait for them?”Judy: “No, they both think they’re on a promise here.”Liz: “Really? What, do you think they’ll pull in here?”Judy: “Umm, well put it this way. Phillip stands more chance of success as a chicken”Liz: “Who with?”Judy: “I don’t know. Another chicken?”Liz: “Lets go to the Sweater bar. There could be a chicken there”Judy: “Probably, most of them aren’t drinking age yet!”Liz: “Phil’s not so daft. He hasn’t had to pay for a drink all night!”Judy: “Yeah, but how do you sup a pint in a chicken costume, and stay in character?”Liz: “You didn’t see?”Judy: “No, what?”Liz: “He was sitting on them like they were eggs.”Judy: “What, and picking them up inside the costume?”Liz: “It’s one hell of a party trick.”Judy: “I’ve seen him do that with Dos Equis bottles. Without the costume”Liz: “Oh, god. Thank you for that mental image. I’m definitely not going to the Sweater bar now.”Judy: “Come on. You know it’ll just be “hit on” time if we go anywhere else.”Liz: “All right then. I wish the boys would come too”Judy: “It’d just be “hit on” time for them instead.”Liz: “Well, then they’d know what it was like then. Anyway, they’d be OK if they pretended to be together.”Judy: “They’d have to snog before they were taken seriously.”Liz: “Each other?”Judy: “Exactly. They’re in the show! Everyone would just assume they were up for anything.”Liz: “But they do snog each other in the Berlin show.” Judy: “On-stage doesn’t count. Phil’s in drag anyway”Liz: “It does, if you want it to. Two guys on stage, pretend to kiss, they’re gay.”Judy: “And if they kiss the girls instead?”Liz: “They’re compensating.”Judy: “So, on-stage doesn’t count for anything.”Liz: “Exactly. Hang on, what was I saying?”Judy: “You were saying, Sweater Bar”Liz: “OK. (gets up).”(they walk out of the bar)Liz: “OK, so what if we snogged on stage then. Would that count?”Judy: “I don’t know, but we would get paid more”
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 28 September 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 28 September 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 28 September 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)
Probable cast:Gary - Graham NortonLiz - Caroline QuentinBryan - Paul ShanePhilip - Dara O'BririaiaiairiaiaianJudy - Su PollardHector - Frank Thornton
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 28 September 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 28 September 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 28 September 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 28 September 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 28 September 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 28 September 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 28 September 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 28 September 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 28 September 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Thursday, 28 September 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 28 September 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)