Category: Sketches

  • Facebook of Genesis

    God joined Facebook. God changed his Profile Picture. God is now friends with Lucifer. Lucifer: ’Sup! Welcome! (Careful, it’s addictive!)

  • Six Degrees of Desperation

    INT. CROWDED SUBWAY CAR – DAY Darrell Rogers, young and grungy. squeezes onto the packed car. He is pressed right up against Vinton Cerf, older and distinguished. Darrell is staring at Vinton, who is trying to read the paper. VINTON Can I help you? DARRELL Huh? VINTON You’re staring. DARRELL Sorry. Darrell looks away. Vinton…

  • Facebook Saves The Day

    We continue to move across the land, sweeping aside our enemies and bringing new blood into our fold. Here’s a sketch from the very latest Warrior to join our ranks, Jennifer Best. Join me in welcoming this brave battler into the ring. If we don’t scare Jennifer off – I’m looking at you, Brownlee! –…

  • “Why Don’t You Read My Blog?”

    Hi all — here’s my take on the “social networking” edition of Sketchwar….

  • Who Watches the Tweeters?

    Very short, but I’m really happy with this one. Thank Twitterer @theisb for the final line.

  • Just Like on that Website…You Know?

    I have been mulling this one over in my head since my buddy Stephen Mark Rainey visited – he’s big into Geo Caching. Mark…this one’s for you…  I wanted to choose a social network that was unlikely to cross-over with the others on the site…and I’ve always had a soft spot for the sort of…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.