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Date Posted: 21:23:03 03/01/06 Wed
Author: Jim Bevan
Subject: Idea for a sketch

This is a sketch concept I've been mulling for a while, but I've never been able to make it work effectively. So I just thought I'd put it here to see if it could potentially inspire one of the other writers.

The sketch is called "Cruel and Unusual Comedy." The premise is that during an interrogation, police are unable to get information from a criminal despite using every method they have. As a last resort, they decide to initiate "Operation: Shecky" to get the guy to talk. What this consists of is having the criminal subjected to stand-up acts from horrible comedians, people who have to pay the club owners to get up there on open mic night.

Basically, the crook is bombarded with material from complete hacks: guys who do stale, cliche jokes (i.e. cops loving donuts, New York's different from L.A., Starbucks are everywhere, ect.), comics with incredibly dated material (Monica Lewinsky, O.J. Simpson), comics who try to cover up bad material by doing bad celebrity impersonations, et cetera.

Anyway, it's probably not the best idea, but as I said, maybe someone here might be up to the challenge.

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