Yeah ok the title looks a little odd, but I woke up this morning with a sketch in my head and had it been a tad warmer in the room I might have actually spent the time writing it down. Although if I had one of those wands for retrieving the information and storing it in my pensieve I might have succeeded in putting down exactly word for word what my characters did say instead of ad libbing in places.
The sketch starts off in a busy office, clerks tapping away on their keyboards, people answering phones, cubicled off like a maze of people etc. On the left hand side of the office near the tea trolley - do they still have tea trolleys, stands a handful of people, all of them bar one have hung up their jackets over their chairs, but the larger character who in my dream was Mark Benton in his suit for 'Brand New Customers Only' bank is standing quietly beside a thinner bloke who we later discover is his younger brother.
The sketch begins when the group of jacketless men are discussing where they originated from, where they were born until Benton announces:
Benton: I was born born!
Jez (his brother turns his head to look at Benton in puzzlement, the others look at him queerly too). What?
Benton: I was born born.
Jez: How can you be born born?
Benton: I was born like this, in this suit!
(The rest of the group walk back to their seats, Benton has gone doolally, only Jez remains beside his brother), still holding his styrene cup and trying to ignore his brother but can't.
Jez: Why say that?
Benton: Say what?
Jez: That you were born born, doesn't make sense. You were born, but not in that suit.
Benton: Yes I was. I was born like this.
Jez drinks his coffee, frowning.
Benton: Alright, how come there are no baby photos of me, how come I have no photographs except for the office party last christmas?
Jez: I dunno!
Anyway, this is the start of the sketch, I've yet to take it further. I like it actually, and I'm planning on pursuing this for a 10 minute sketch somehow.
Monday, 10 November 2008
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