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Needed: Skit Suggestions

post #1 of 4
9/28/10 at 4:53pm
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Any ideas will need to be adapted to make fun of my co-workers. Likely to be parodies of popculture things, movies TV shows whatever. Ie, so far the "most interesting man in the world" and "old spice" commercials are being parodied and a couple of late-night skits. I have to fill an hour of time (along with a couple of others) and don't have nearly enough ideas so I thought I'd put it out there and fish for some. But anything is good - if you can suggest anything I am all ears.
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post #2 of 4
9/28/10 at 5:41pm
Go for a sophisticated meta-performance. I like misanthropic audience-baiting in an early Andy Kaufman vein. Maybe an unrelenting block of hateful, yet accurate invective against the co-workers followed by the playing of an over-long tedious song from the contemporary pop charts. Just look to Brecht for inspiration - catharsis (even comedic catharsis) need not come from the performance itself. The audience struggling to find release within themselves can be all the more powerful.
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post #3 of 4
9/28/10 at 5:43pm
McGruber can easily be adapted to fit any situation - the logic and structure of the skits is pretty clear cut and replicable.
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post #4 of 4
9/28/10 at 5:45pm
An updated rendition of Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians, wherein the ten most annoying co-workers are killed off in some poetically just and tragic manner. For example, Stacey, who spells her name with an "e" and always eats all the cream cheese and bagels before anybody else gets a chance, is crushed by the deli delivery truck. Then David, who smells of rotten eggs and limps, is killed by meteorites. The rest of the cast is killed off in similar situations, eventually culminating in the death of your boss by his wife coming in and finding him sexing the secretary, which he does in real life, and commits a three-way murder suicide.

End the show with some Simon and Garfunkel music and make sure there is plenty of liquor.
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