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FSW: We Three Kings…
The gods of writing have pretty much conspried against me getting anything out before Friday these days. I’m just thankful for that west-coast midnight deadline 🙂 Our newest sketch warrior suggested the theme last week: Learning Something New About History. I figured I’d jump the gun and get into the Christmas spirit as well. Richard…
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FSW: The Truth About Harry
Quick point of order: Peter is a bastard for coming up with this week’s theme, Learning something new about history. May a thousand beetles crawl into his closet and take up residence in his favorite sneaker. The left one, not the right one. Come back on Saturday for the recap, where I give you links…
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FSW: Oprah Edition
Annnnnnnndddd coming in just under the wire… It’s Friday Sketch War….and if you’re going to come to a war, it’s nice to be fashionably late (hey, it worked for the U.S. in both world wars, right???). Anyway here’s my foray into the world of Oprah…and her friends. Peter put the Big O in Oprah for…
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FSW: Oprah’s Favorite Things
Holy crap. I swear, when I thought of Oprah last week, I had visions of sketches writing themselves. So many ideas filled my head: Oprah as a cruel taskmaster; Oprah as an international spy; Oprah giving hitmen assignments with envelopes under their seats. Those ideas? They don’t work. Nothing worked. I was going to do…
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FSW: Oprah Edition (Peter’s Entry)
Friday Sketch War Oprah Edition “No Accounting for Taste” FADE IN: INT. LIVING ROOM – NIGHT A typical college apartment. MATTHEW (uptight college kid) sits on a couch, picks up a remote, and uses it to turn on an entertainment center. A Pirates of the Caribbean DVD case sits nearby. ON TV Oprah Winfrey’s talk…
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FSW: Horrible Family Holidays Edition (Peter’s Entry)
Friday Sketch War Horrible Family Holidays Edition “Ted’s Wake” FADE IN: INT. ELEVATOR LOBBY – NIGHT KATIE (27, black formalwear) paces in a posh elevator lobby, going over a handwritten speech. CROWD NOISES emanate from a closed door. Beside the door hangs a poster with a black-and-white photo of a scowling old man reads, “In…
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FSW: Horrible Family Holiday edition
Happy almost-Thanksgiving everyone! This weeks theme was: horrible family holidays It was graciously provided by @tjonsek, who suggested it on Richard’s blog. Speaking of Richard, he took us out for a lovely Holiday dinner in New York for his salvo. I decided to examine the origins of Holiday drama in America. And…if you’d like to…
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FSW: Chinatown Christmas
Blogging buddy @tjonsek suggested this week’s theme in comments: horrible family holidays. I didn’t have to reach too deep into my bag of painful, poorly suppressed memories to pull this sketch out. Still rubs me raw. You know of course that comedy often requires painting in broad strokes and exaggerating. Comedy in real life is…
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FSW: Autumn Edition
Nothing like coming in under the wire! This week got unexpectedly crazy, but neither corporate machinations, travel plans, unexpected improv workouts nor the cranky elderly can keep me from my appointed sketch!!! Richard gave us “Autumn” as our theme for the week – and Autumn years was what jumped to mind. So below is my…
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FSW: Leafer’s Paradise
Autumn. A wide open theme. Could have gone so many ways, that I expect we’ll get some nice variation this week. Let’s hope so! Come back later for a recap with links to the other sketches and information on submitting for next week. And if you’ve got a theme you’d like to see us try…