A Special Holiday Message

We had an idea a little while ago that we absolutely loved and decided to put into action. It's a bit of a slow burner and the rewards are almost nil, but it's very funny to us and we intend to keep it up for as long as possible. Ben made a really good point when we first discussed the idea that there are some comedy characters or scenes (particularly with sketch shows), that are obviously hilarious to the creators even if the reception for them is luke-warm. At the time he used an example of Sir Digby Chicken Ceasar from That Mitchell and Webb Look - which is a recurring character that always features in a sketch that feels far too long, but is probably a lot of fun to both write for and perform. There's also another notable example I use, which is from futurama

This room looks just like Troy and Abed's imaginarium in community. And is apparently a huge star trek reference

Kif and Amy use a virtual simulation room, and kif makes a programming joke about the process running on 1000 lines of basic (completely outside my frame of reference). After listening to the director commentary I hear a story that the writers estimated that less than 1% of the audience will pick up on the joke and the quote that stuck with me was along the lines of: "To put it politely, [our head writer] said, 'flip them'".

So whilst filming one of our weekly sketches, we were trying to think about whether we could capitalise on upcoming holiday days on notable events in order to get a few more views/shares around the internet. The problem with this primarily, is that an idea like Easter, has been around for centuries and so many of these ideas have already beeen completely mined to death by people in similar situations.

Eventually, we suggested just using the same sketch but badly dubbing over the audio to say things like "Wow....on 'EASTER'". We were all so fond of this idea that we knew we had to go ahead with it and hope to keep on using the same footage for as long as possible. What I'm personally excited for as well, is that our general content quality will slowly increase but we will continue to put out this really poorly lit, grainy sketch with bad audio every christmas etc for as long as we can. Even devolving the actual words said to a point of reckless insanity (Ben has suggested at one point it being unintelligible screams for each line). The point is, regardless of the reception for it, we all get a good kick out of this one. Happy St George's day: