I've been a busy boy.
I have been keeping up with my sketch a day, but have not been posting because of developments in my personal and professional lives. The biggest of these was my 7 year anniversary with the lovely lady who dares to put up with me. I thank her for her patience, understanding, and lack of laughter whenever I present something funny to her.
However this post is about my sketches for the last 6 days. Here goes:
Simu-date
This sketch (although it could be an extended blackout) is a thinly veiled infomercial for a futuristic dating service. However, the date in question during this infomercial doesn't go as planned for the dater. It came out of a paranoid dream I had years ago before I became entwined with my current amazing lady. Dating was always scary for a dork such as myself. This sketch explains why. 3 person sketch (1 a narrator).
Stage Fright
This 2 person meta-sketch I feel would take place in the middle of the show or the middle of act 2. Basically two of the company are onstage waiting. They talk about the fact that the script isn't done yet for their scene and the writers are working furiously backstage. This obviously stresses them out because they're already onstage during the show in front of an audience. The conflict is resolved when the new pages are rushed out. Hopefully a funny ending to an awkward sketch.
Will To Survive
I have been watching re-runs of Suvivorman on Netflix all week and was intrigued by a show where 1 person puts themselves into hostile survival situations and only has themselves to film their ordeal, unlike that pussy Bear Grylls who has an entire crew and sleeps in hotels during the shoot. I decided to have my survivor person holed up in one of the most dangerous places of all, a mall. This would have to be a video sketch but a full length one. I found myself pondering over video sketches this week and feel I should try to write more. It's essentially a 1 person sketch with cameos.
Tassel Tornado
Since my fiance is a burlesque dancer, I have been introduced to that world quite suddenly in the past year. One of the pitfalls these ladies run into is as they are dancing, a pastie may fly off and leave them exposed. Also some ladies cannot spin tasseled pasties, therefore this sketch provides a solution to both those problems. I see this as a video piece as well. It is based around a narrator speaking to our lovely dancer and she shows off the new tassel pasties that have been brought to the consumer market: The Tassel Tornado. Unfortunately there are some gruesome results for an unlucky audience member. 3 person video sketch.
I Can't Believe It's Not Brains
This is a short blackout. 3 zombies chewing on a corpse when one of them realizes it's not real brains. I was inspired by a Far Side comic with the Tofu Antelope. 4 person scene.
Speed Reading Symphony
Another black out with a short sweet premise. What would happen if a pianist walked out onstage and played an entire symphony meant for those of us lucky enough to have taken speed reading courses. Based off a premise of a Robin Williams joke from the 70's. 1 person scene.
Well that's all of them and I'm now caught up for the week. Tomorrow I work on #25 for this year. Hopefully it's a good one.
Also RB and I are currently trying to work out a monthly staged reading of our best work from each month. Please let us know if you would be interested in hearing this/ know anyone who would be interested.
JvL
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