So last week (and indeed last month) was a busy one for WMD, Last Friday saw the release of our most recent sketch, Weirdest Ever Gumtree Ad, which if you missed can be found here:
This one was I found very funny from the start. Originally the sketch took place in a fridge shop, and featured copious amounts of gurning from the salesman, which was replaced with him being a much more pathetic and less openly perverted figure. Due to us being unable to shoot on location it needed tweaking slightly, and we thought the idea of doing a sketch about Gumtree and it's ilk would be fun.
A couple of little references are in this one. Firstly, the high-pitched "Will just stop it!?" was a callback to an outro I made for our sketch about the Hokey Cokey:
There is also a moment I particularly like, what I call the "fastest fridge close in the west" at around 2 minutes. Finally, the "aw, pwease" line is from an anecdote Ryan is fond of telling that I regrettably cannot do justice in a blog post.
Last we also travelled across to sunny Wakefield to play Komedy Kulcha, an arty night in a suitably arty town. It was a strange night where it quickly became apparent that all bets were off, not least after the first act was awarded a pack of "scurrilous greeting cards" as a reward for performing.
Me and Tom decided to play things fast and loose, trying a whole bunch of new lines and ad-libs (and in the process forgetting several scripted lines too). Mike the unswayed, our current closer, went down very well, despite being adapted from a 3 man version into a 2 hander.
Tomorrow night is Friday, and sees another sketch (closing in on a year now). I've got plenty to say about it, but that's a story for next week.
- Ben
This one was I found very funny from the start. Originally the sketch took place in a fridge shop, and featured copious amounts of gurning from the salesman, which was replaced with him being a much more pathetic and less openly perverted figure. Due to us being unable to shoot on location it needed tweaking slightly, and we thought the idea of doing a sketch about Gumtree and it's ilk would be fun.
A couple of little references are in this one. Firstly, the high-pitched "Will just stop it!?" was a callback to an outro I made for our sketch about the Hokey Cokey:
There is also a moment I particularly like, what I call the "fastest fridge close in the west" at around 2 minutes. Finally, the "aw, pwease" line is from an anecdote Ryan is fond of telling that I regrettably cannot do justice in a blog post.
Last we also travelled across to sunny Wakefield to play Komedy Kulcha, an arty night in a suitably arty town. It was a strange night where it quickly became apparent that all bets were off, not least after the first act was awarded a pack of "scurrilous greeting cards" as a reward for performing.
Me and Tom decided to play things fast and loose, trying a whole bunch of new lines and ad-libs (and in the process forgetting several scripted lines too). Mike the unswayed, our current closer, went down very well, despite being adapted from a 3 man version into a 2 hander.
Tomorrow night is Friday, and sees another sketch (closing in on a year now). I've got plenty to say about it, but that's a story for next week.
- Ben
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