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Grosvenor Square
My entry for the “Brent Spiner and Stephen Fry” edition of Sketch War. Mr. Spiner plays the U. S. consul-general in London; Mr. Fry plays his liaison in the Foreign Ministry.
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An Old Fashioned
Perhaps I took this one a bit too literally. Lights up on a traditional, proscenium stage. The velvet, red curtains part to reveal a door. Reginald Jeeves (a proper British butler) arrives at the door at the same moment as Lt. Commander Data (a very formal android). Jeeves tips his hat and extends his hand…
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The Modernistic
(Ridgeview: a small college town in central Illinois, nestled amidst the prairies and the cornfields.) (Exterior shot of the Ridgeview bus station. Summer, early evening. We hear the tinny sound of a telephone ringing, as heard through a receiver. Dissolve to the bus station’s interior. Camera pans across a line of payphones and comes to…
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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.