Sketch Entries from the warriors
Jewish mothers never change.
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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 10
Title: 2-ish
MARY
So Rachel, how’s your Peter doing?
RACHEL brandishes a very small bouquet of flowers.
So, I thought it would be fun to bring back Bob and Jim from my earlier sketch Basketball and Bullies… see how they’re doing in the world of novelty sportscasting. Last time it was third grade basketball, this time its fire, cornfields, and hammered, professional nerds. Oh, and by the way – yes, this really is what small town college professors do on the weekends. Don’t ask me how I know.
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INT. TV STUDIO – DAY
MEGAN THUNDER (20s, in miniskirt and halter top) and NICK STEELE (20s, in lycra shorts and Ed Hardy t-shirt) stand before a bank of monitors showing a variety of sports.
NICK
Yo, yo, yo! This. Is. The Ocho Report!
Obnoxious flying graphics scored with too-loud music identify this as “The Ocho Report” on ESPN 8.
CUT TO:
Back to studio.
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Hi all — here’s my take on the “Radio Drama” edition of Sketchwar.
I suppose after all these years, I’m realizing that these tales are less “science fiction” and more “horror.”
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The last two weeks were “write 65% of the sketch, then get gobsmacked with something urgent, wake-up Saturday and think ‘aw crap, I didn’t finish the sketch’””.
Ahhhhh…back in the ring….
This scene is completely a radio play – no visible actors, done either in the dark or just as an audio recording.
CAST:
ANNOUNCER – male, 50’s
SINGERS – all female voices
COLONEL MATT MERCURY – male, late 30’s to early 40’s
BUCK TUCKER – male, early 20’s
PAGE – male, late teens
BESS – late 20’s
PRODUCER – male, mid \ late 40’s
MUSICIAN – male, 50’s
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Some really fantastic sketches this week…and now here’s mine to muck it all up. I know very little about old time radio and absolutely nothing about the serials. So, I did something a bit different. One thought I had while writing this was, what might it look like if we were to transplant today’s pop culture into the 1940s…
Here’s part 2. I actually got to do these in front of an audience for a live taping. I was the SFX guy, which was boatloads of fun.
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I wrote these as a series of short radio plays for a station in Champaign-Urbana back in 1997. I’ve done very little editing beyond formatting, so please indulge the meanderings of a 23-year-old.
