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Fry and Spiner: RA’s entry
The Mates Running the Asylum I’ve written this one as the first scene for a pilot. It’s not as boom-boom-boom funny as many sketches, but I think it works as a teaser for something more with a few chuckles as well. Let me know what you think.
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New Home for Sketch War
We’ve moved once again. Our new, and permanent home, is sketchwar.org It’s not pretty right now – just an out of the box WordPress site – but it’ll get better over the next month or so. Thanks to everyone who’s been coming here. We hope you come on over to the new home!
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RA’s critique of the week
Ken’s entry I thought Ken started off the week on a solid note. It seems to me that for a fake movie trailer for an old TV show to be funny (not necessarily indicative of a good movie) it needs to have a stark tonal shift from the source material. The source material should also…
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Pimp My TV Wrapup
Another great fight this week with six warriors bringing eight sketches. Yeah, we got a little crazy. Ken started us off with a little controversy, mashing Tarantino and the Eastland School… RA shot back with a tale of a life got flipped, turned upside down… Peter JUMPED into the arena… DNW brought in the cavalry,…
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Pimp my TV (RA’s bonus entry)
EXT. CORN MAZE – DAY The camera enters the maze and flies through it, cutting around corners, swinging like a pendulum, a rapid swirl of green corn and pale yellow hay. It comes to a dead end. A pig oinks softly. The camera swings around and moves off, the grunts getting louder. DISSOLVE THROUGH: Literally…
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Pimp my TV (RA’s Entry)
EXT. CITY STREET – NIGHT A middle-aged black WOMAN cradles a bloody, lifeless young teen in her arms. WILL, a tall black teenager stands next to her. Sirens wail in the distance. WOMAN Will! Will! What have you done! CUT TO: CU on Will’s face. WILL Snitch got what he deserved. CUT TO: Medium shot.…
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Happy Birthday, Ken
INT. RESTAURANT – NIGHT Six white dudes sit around a table in a manly, meat-oriented restaurant. Glasses of beer sit at various levels of fullness in front of each man, a half-full pitcher in the center of the table. KEN That was great, guys. Thanks. DAVE It’s not over yet. KEN You mean? PETER Oh…
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FSW: Advertising Edition Wrapup
Well frak if that wasn’t a hell of a war this week! To all the new visitors to Sketch War, welcome again. What you saw this week was a pretty good example of what we do around here every week, with a few minor modifications. We hope you enjoyed the sketches, and if you haven’t…
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R.A.’s self-critique: Advertising Edition
My advertising sketch is yet another example of an interesting premise in need of editing. I seem to be producing a lot of these lately. It’s a simple blackout, but I dragged it out by inserting the second scene in 1992. I think it’s necessary for internal narrative cohesiveness, but lessens the overall impact. Way…
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Advertising Edition: R.A.’s entry
INT. OFFICE – DAY TITLE – Mitchell-Bell, Inc. New York 1962 GARETH MACLAREN (early 30s, wan with thinning hair) sits opposite BARRY NEWCOMB (a late 20s go-getter with moviestar looks). Hair and suit styles are appropriate to the mid-1960s. Whenever he’s not speaking, Barry peers intently, like a detective divining motive. BARRY We’re not the…