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Raw Ideas

Have you got an idea or premise for a sketch? One that you think's really great, but isn't quite ready to be written into a script? This is where we post ideas for everyone to mull over.

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  • ANGRY BIRDS - just as a random, really quick sketch in between other sketches, the lights could come on to reveal a group of people dressed as the angry birds characters just standing there making the sound effects really angrily or having an intense argument for a few moments, then lights off.
  • Something making fun of the recent 'hipster' trend, similar to http://youtu.be/qWxD9hPyQ98
  • Someone pretends to be a ghost in order to break up with their partner. OR: A person's friends all pretend to be ghosts in order to ditch him.
  • A sketch involving Dr. Acula, but instead of being a vampire doctor, he's a vampire with a PhD in philosophy.
  • Teenage Mutant Ginger Turtles (might be best as a voice-over)
  • Lord of the Flies - a sketch either about someone who has a supernatural control of flies (the insect), or something to do with flies on pants.
  • Cluedo: A sketch involving Clu-Do, a martial art.
  • A sketch with a really fastidious detective, who insists on checking everything despite having really clear evidence as to who committed the crime. 
  • A detective is called in to solve the murder at Cluedo Mansion, and the guests insist he play by the rules - e.g. guess the right weapon/killer/room combination, and only give him one clue at a time, etc etc. The joke is that Cludo is an entirely inaccurate representation of how to actually solve crime.
  • Old Spice Man gets depression. 
  • Someone has a really specific part of their brain removed - e.g. the part responsible for understanding chairs.
  • "I don't understand women" - someone who quite literally does not understand women. Doesn't know what they are, can't understand what words they're using. 
  • A wanted video asking for information about a serial killer known as the Muffin Man. "Do you know the Muffin Man?" 
  • A sketch directed by Christopher Nolan. At the start, we'd say "The following sketch was directed by Christopher Nolan," and then just have a really crazy surreal sketch.
  • Scott Pilgrim is actually a pilgrim
  • A sketch involving a Parrot Ship instead of a Pirate Ship.
  • The Periodic Stable - instead of being a diagram of elements, its a stable of horses each representing a different element. When they whinney it sounds like they're saying their element, ala Pokemon?
  • A sketch involving a character with a split personality - possibly in the Directed by Christopher Nolan sketch.
  • Evolution on stage
  • Fossil Fuels - the energy drink for dinosaurs.
  • The captain of the Titanic flat-out denying that the boat is sinking, ignoring all evidence to the contrary. Basically take some of the moments from this but change it to a live argument between the captain and the second mate.
  • The Hulk threatens someone with "You wouldn't like me when I'm angry" and the subject points out that nobody is particularly likeable when they're angry. This keeps building (ie "well I'm not just angry. I get green as well!" "Well Yoda is green, and I don't imagine he's particularly pleasant when he's angry either!")
  • What if the moon was actually made of cheese? What if it was the only source of cheese? What if it was melting?
  • Home for Mentally Unstable Video Game Characters. Famous video game characters trying to do what they'd do inside a game in the real world (Link is a pot-destroying psychopath, for example).
    • To twist on the combination of video games and therapy - a person is taken to a psychiatrist for constantly asserting there are more than 151 pokemon. (to be quite meta, this is fair, because after the first 151 there are more and more pokemon that look like they were drawn by the clinically insane).
  • Pun police - someone on stage makes a really terrible pun. This is something that would appear a few times. The pun police escalate their methods of removal (possible running gag).
  • A scientist who tries stand up comedy and is absolutely rubbish. Cringe!humour.
  • Procrastination Police/Plagiarism Police - video sketch? maybe in the style of Border Security.
  • Zombie Alarm in Chemistry/Anatomy. Chemistry famously always has the Fire Alarms going off. In light of 28 Days Later, Chemistry buildings should also have Zombie alarms.
  • A schoolboy accidentally calls the teacher 'Mum' in class and everyone ridicules him- starts with the other kids laughing, then escalates outrageously (e.g. "HAHA, you f***king IDIOT Timmy!", [Teacher:] "I could never be your mother, you foolish boy!", the Principal walks by and expels him on the spot, etc...)
  • The original conversation between Liza and Henry which led to the song "There's a hole in my bucket"
  • People at a fancy tea party in which a character literally has a storm in his tea cup, probably video sketch with a malestrom and pirate ships fighting in the tea cup, or possible the X-men character Storm in his tea cup
  • many hands making light work, a light bulb which turns on whenever people put their hands near it
  • A Primary school teacher trying to teach Yoda propper syntax
  • Bear Grylls being interviewed for his insurance
  • Someone selling an iPhone. If you can name it, it can do it. (Potential magic act)
  • Using PokeMart items in real life. (eg. trying to revive a dead person - reading the instructions on the box of a 'Max Revive')
  • Life insurance/life ensurance - someone believes they can't die, because their life is insured (ensured)
  • People wearing sheets pretending to be ghosts, but doing a really obviously bad job of it
  • A really, really obviously bad thief.
  • Someone really desperately needs something specific, like a heart or a sword, and a handsome guy in a snappy suit walks in, gives them a rose, and walks back out.
  • Someone sits on top of a car/truck with reins, as if riding the car like a chariot.
  • Someone screams normal phrases really angrily. "HOW WAS YOUR DAY?" "PASS THE SALT PLEASE."
  • Confusing Obama and Osama
  • A Clover Moore and Peter Madden (Christian Democrat Party Candidate) debate in whihc he throws his acusation about her and the Greens like the slogans written on his ad.. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/i-was-a-sex-addict-says-christian-democrat-vying-to-oust-sydney-lord-mayor-clover-moore/story-e6frg6o6-1225994542432 (Perhaps he can lauch a witch hunt?)
  • Werner Heisenberg as a superhero. He would have the power of uncertainty: when he runs you don't know his position, and when you know his position you don't know if he's running or not (this is a joke stolen from Dresden Codak, I don't like whoever put this here. -head writer)
  • Due to popular, student interest. Sydney Uni has created its first Magic Faculty. The head of the Science Faculty meets with him to discuss the syllabus. "How can eye of newt and beozlar added together create a love potion? Its physically not to mention chemically impossible?!?" Reply: "You need have a PH.D. in wizadry to understand. Its too complicated for science." It turns out in the end the Head Mage is actually high on weed.
  • The Faculty of Mad Science
  • Jack Sparrow (or any pirate) working a regular job
  • The meeting where God tells the angels he's decided to put all the knowledge in the world into an apple tree.
  • Angels are trying to kick out another angel because he's too good at being an angel.
  • Jesus' miracles aren't necessary any more. Fred Hollows can heal the blind, we don't need heaven when we've got Disneyland, not to mention home fermentation is strictly better than turning water into wine.
  • Someone gets a face transplant, but it's not a human face.
  • Song about how science hasn't fixed everything yet.
  • Everything someone says is literally true.
  • A Brief History of Time in rap
  • Doctor Brown's solution to every problem is time travel. Out of eggs? Travel back in time. And we'll need an egg almanac to tell us exactly where the eggs will be...
  • People playing poker with Uno cards, Hallmark cards, business cards...
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Halogens.
  • Freud's mum finding his diary
  • The Lord Mare of Sydney
  • Archemedes on trial for public exposure after leaping out of the bath and shouting Eureka!
  • Wizards from the Harry Potter verse debating why they don't use modern technology like electricity.
  • Greeks scared of other Greeks bearing gifts (eg, bringing salad to a BBQ)
  • The "Ancient Greeks" are jut two actual very old greek people
  • The workers who built the horse of troy complaining about it
  • Philsopher Orc questioning a Hobbit why he is killing Orcs
  • Hertz-y Shore: I reckon something like this could be a recurring sketch, possibly; could make the characters all more sciency or whatever =P
  • Song idea: Freud Day
  • Song idea: a song about plastic surgery (bridalplasty?) set to 'Natural Woman'
  • CAPTAIN OBVIOUS, the superhero
  • A sketch that ends with someone finding fifty bucks
  • A fake trailer for a film about the long anticipated prosecution of the criminal Bill Posters (or some other way of making fun of "Bill Posters will be prosecuted")
  • Film/tv trailer parody of Alcatraz: "Azkaban: the world's toughest prison"
CAMP IDEAS
  • Cafe of the death of childhood dreams
  • Reignman
  • Sex talk from the queen
  • Mx date - literal?
  • Dragons made up
  • Weirdly specific horoscopes
  • Good cop, Brad cop
  • Laptop harassment
  • Fear of boxes (box step, tick the box, thinking outside the box, boxing)
  • The first board meeting of a company created by babies -> bears?
  • Shindler's lifts
  • Goldfinger = Coldfinger : Bond's proctologist?
  • Klingon : The language of love
  • Bank robber makes a deposit
  • It is discovered that time actually equals money
  • Dad telling boyfriend pre-prom "You know she's awful, right?"
  • Grammar Nazi : The best kind of Nazi
  • Worst times to say "I love you"
  • "It's better to have loved and lost than to have been convicted of second degree murder."
  • Spree! Spree! Spree! That is what is sounds like when doves cry (V/O)
  • Corrupt team explains plan, LS secondary : tender team [wtf is this?]
  • Bloc party
  • Santa/Satan postman (X/Y)
  • Irreverent hostage demands (we do not negotiate...)
  • Restaurant with Mythical Beasts on the Menu

    2010 HOLIDAY WRITERS' IDEAS


  • Stabby Ghosts
  • My wife the people smuggler
  • Bank steak - that's what happened to me at the bank!
  • I can hear capitalism - I can hear the air
  • Clown Police! "Send in the clowns!" 
  • What if Dogs could drive a bus
  • Spy with a phobia of sharks (Coast is clear) (Voiceover)
  • Who looks after calendars
  • Convicts on the moon
  • Are you going to railway square
  • Hotel for Reservoir Dogs
  • Companion doesn't want to leave the Tardis (Remember the line about "Her series got cancelled!")
  • Mac Vs Pc - Personality Vs Breasts
  • Lancelot love triange
  • Magic Owl
  • Genie suing aladdin for sexual harassment 
  • Avatar
  • Astronaut returns to Earth convinced it's planet of the apes
  • Mr Crazy!
  • Man with rabies thinks he has all the power of a dog
  • Next stop PARTY TOWN
  • Happy Sketch
  • I shot the sheriff 
  • A pinata going through customs
  • Depressing birthday pinata
  • Incomplete Robot trying to take over the world
  • Truth fairy
  • Denim and rape
  • Semaphore sketch
  • Lex Lu7ther's Funeral - Superman gives the eulogy
  • Fish for men
  • A chocolate baron
  • YES A SECRET MAN CASTER SEMENYA
  • Fire fighting tree
  • Boy who cried wolves
  • What if Santa's beard was too big?
  • How bridie's first kiss was stolen
  • Cupid at the archery final
  • Donor Kebabs
  • Robot learns to dance
  • Mr Cunningham and Reginald Porke

    2011 HOLIDAY WRITERS' IDEAS

    • Teenage mutant ninja renaissance artists maybe they should actually save a work of art. Oh man, a bunch of renaissance artists sitting around and they get a call. Hilarious.

    • Marketing group trying to think of next Australian tourism ad, with Tony Abbott sitting in. All of his slogans involve scaring people away. “Don’t come if you’re brown”. Needs more meat.

    • Firefighter stripper (One slides down a pole, the other just poledances on it.)

    • Sunny alderaan tourism pitch

    • Younger brother of Christ. Johnny Christ.

    • Someone misusing literally, and then those things literally happening. End with literally misfiring “I am literally exploding with rage”. Everyone using figuratively wrong.

    • Someone thinks we’ve conquered space because we just launched the last shuttle

    • Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your golden hair! Why? I need to get up! Get a ladder!

    • Racist ventriloquist (James’ idea)

    • Kung Fu teacher – punch yourself into the dick, other guy falls over in agony. Later, it is used to punch him in the dick. “Master, I am ready.” He crumples and headbutts.

    • Robbing victim being really insulted by robber’s denigration of his stuff

    • Optimus prime in a car crash – exchanging license details

    • Superintelligent checkout machine.

    • A mic is found off-stage and a cast member grabs it and screws with the actors in this scene, who have assumed he/she is god.

    • Goldilocks bears house confrontation – calling it out.

    • Ethics lecturer: “What some cultures find admirable, others may find unacceptable. For example, our culture finds murder reprehensible. But perhaps alien cultures find murder morally acceptable. Our civilisation finds theft inappropriate. But perhaps in a more competitive culture, one whose residents are slower to anger, theft would be considered a skilful profession. In our culture, many would consider it strange to drive out into a car to a field in the middle of the night - and kiss a cow on the mouth. But in other cultures - more advanced cultures, some might say - it’d be considered a perfectly ordinary act, like stroking the softness of a cow’s teat.”

    • Leopard Jesus

    • Using the Necronomicon as a text.

    • Zookeeper pretending to make animals that don’t exist.