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RA’s Hippie Apology
Uh, I’ve been spinning my wheels all week and not very productive outside work. At work? Gang busters. Out in the world, where I actually give a shit about stuff? Not so much. I still hope to write a sketch for this week but in the meantime how about taking a trip in the wayback…
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Pirates Wrapup
I’ve been lax the last few weeks in wrapping up the battles. But this week I was Shanghaied and conscripted to service aboard the ‘Bountiful Booty’. It’s write this wrapup or scrape the barnacles off Captain Jack’s peg leg. Coyote recruited the dumbest kid ever to be a pirate, of a sort… Lynn sang a…
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Q: What’s a Pirate’s favorite baseball statistic?
A: Arrrr! Bee Eyes! Stubborn and obstinate, that’s what I am. Do you know how many weeks I’ve skipped since the very first Sketch War? Zero. Suck it, life!
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Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire!
I took this week’s cue a bit too literally, I think.
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Cronenbergtonville
[fountain] EXT. TREE-LINED STREET – DAY Bright, sunny, animated in a style that’s a cross between “Ren and Stimpy” and latter Hanna-Barbera. DAVEY lopes down the sidewalk, meeting NICKY pulling KIRILL around in a RADIO FLYER WAGON. DAVEY Hey guys. I see you got Nicky to pull you around, again. KIRILL He’s no driver. He…
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Clean Bill of Health
Oy. Not loving this one too much. I started in a trauma center and dumped that. Then I moved on to the barber shop. Then I decided I was so in love with an idea I had to shoehorn it in the middle here…you’ll see what I mean. I think there are two good sketches…
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Interviews That Never Aired Wrapup
With cable, satellite, and millions of websites streaming content, 24/7/52/7/7 ((That’s 24 hours in a day, by seven days in a week, by 52 weeks in a year, by seven years between sabbaticals, by seven sabbatical cycles in a jubilee. I mean, we’ve got a LOT of content.)) straight into our brains ((The aluminum foil…
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Cicero and Brutus
Being a radio interview conducted on the floor of the Roman Forum, 15 March, 44 B.C. [fountain] Sounds of cheering and applause. CICERO Brutus! Brutus! Do you have a minute? (Beat) Brutus, that was a hell of a shot there. Was that something you’d drawn up, or did you just take the dagger and create?…
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Mother’s Day Wrapup
With a topic as rich and pregnant with possibilities as this, I’d hoped the warriors would have come from far and wide to toss their humor grenades into the ring. Then I remembered not *every* comedy writer has a Jewish mother. While being chosen isn’t a requirement for being funny ((Richard Pryor: non-Jew.)) and is…
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Virgin Mother’s Day
Jewish mothers never change. [fountain] EXT. DUSTY BAZAAR – DAY Various stalls selling food and goods provide the backdrop for a group of FOUR WOMEN in traditional dress of 2000 years ago. MARY wears a black band around her arm. Dissolving one into the next we see… Title: Galilee Title: 0 B.C. Title: Sunday, May…