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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…
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Bonfire of the Academies
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…
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El Ocho Es Muy Caliente!
[fountain] 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…
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Team Acme
I’ll admit, I’m WAY out of the box on this one…but the idea hit me like a big Acme anvil, and I had to do it. Sorry 🙂
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Raoul and Dave Confuse the World, Episode 25
Peter’s take on the “Radio Drama” edition of Sketchwar: episode 25 of “Raoul and Dave Confuse the World”.
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Boring Science Fiction Theatre, Episode Three
I suppose after all these years, I’m realizing that these tales are less “science fiction” and more “horror.”
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Colonel Matt Mecury – Defender of Earth!!!
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…
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Anything Goes on the Radios
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…
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Boring Science Fiction Theatre, Episode 2
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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Boring Science Fiction Theatre
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.