{"id":153,"date":"2008-11-25T22:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T06:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wwwold.sketchwar.org\/?p=153"},"modified":"2008-11-25T22:26:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T06:26:00","slug":"peters-commentary-on-the-horrible-family-holidays-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sketchwar.org\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"Peter’s Commentary on the ‘Horrible Family Holidays’ Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Catching up on blogposts, now that I’ve recovered from the Dance Weekend That Ate My Life<\/a>.]<\/span><\/p>\n

Just thought I’d put up some thoughts on the most recent Sketch War<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ken Robertson’s entry<\/a>: laughed aloud at “No ‘Christians and Heathens’, okay?” \/ “Awwww.”. I liked the payoff at the end — possibly could have trimmed the number of awkward moments leading up to it, though Priscilla’s drunken pass at Massotihan was a great \u00fcber-embarrassing exchange.<\/p>\n

R. A. Porter’s entry<\/a>: Ow! Ow ow ow ow! These aren’t my memories, but it’s like they are my memories! My painful, painful memories! Ow!<\/p>\n

With regards to my own entry<\/a>, I’m mostly just proud that I managed to pound *something* out on time. I spent Tuesday fishing for a topic, scribbled out some ideas on Wednesday, and carved out an hour or two from Friday night — in the thick of ALX — to lock myself in a little room until the pages were finished. Things I liked: simple sketch concept, wrote with clear characters in mind, invented a puppet troupe. Things I didn’t like: random ending (why would Katie flee the scene?), should have pushed the jokes to be more surreal and out-there, and I put an emotional tilt into a comedy sketch, which is kind of wrong. (Sketch comedy isn’t about emotional arcs — the structure is more like “funny. Funny. FUNNY! done.”)<\/p>\n

Oh, and I screwed up on the topic: I mis-read it as “horrible family gatherings”, came up with my sketch, and then realized it was “horrible family holidays”. Then I shoehorned some Christmas decorations into the stage directions. (That’s the magic of screenwriting, kids! Change the time of year just by typing a few extra words!)<\/p>\n

Lord knows how I’ll come up with a sketch on the topic of “Oprah”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Catching up on blogposts, now that I’ve recovered from the Dance Weekend That Ate My Life.] Just thought I’d put up some thoughts on the most recent Sketch War. Ken Robertson’s entry: laughed aloud at “No ‘Christians and Heathens’, okay?” \/ “Awwww.”. I liked the payoff at the end — possibly could have trimmed the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[49,96],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis","tag-commentary","tag-horrible-family-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketchwar.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}