Sunday, 29 March 2009

Bend Over Backwards

Ben lives in Dover, he has a spinal problem which means he cant really walk. He is also very veryhelpful towards others, unfortunately his neighbour (Alan Rickman) is the opposite and comedy arises from Alan foiling Ben's attempts to bend over backwards for people.

Laughter is the Best Medicine

A doctor's surgery tries a new strategy to cure the nation's ill health. Instead of prescribing medication doctors prescribe laughter e.g. Take 2 laughs in the morning and 2 laughs before bed, and a giggle as and when u need it. George Best is the first to try the radical new system, but it turns out laughter doesn't cure cirrhosis of the liver.

Shortback and Sides

Danny Shortback and Eddie Sides are 2 ex navy buddies who have turned to a life of crime. They're always on the run from the law and planning some scheme or other, usually a robbery. Shortback does the stick ups but often falls over when he's running due to having a spine too small for his body. Sidekick Eddie Sides is the getaway driver but doesnt know left from right!

Friday, 20 March 2009

Don't get me Wong

Tony Wong is a Chinese translator for the U.N. He specialises in peace treaty negotiations, but after a series of miscommunications (because of the language barrier) he causes several world wars. He is demoted to hostage negotiations and when the NYPD hear that he is assigned to their cases they say 'dont get me Wong!'.

Fits the Bill

John Fit is a personal trainer who is sick of people leaving their sweat on his gym equipment. In order to gain justice he decides to join the police force, but soon finds his serious approach is a comical mismatch to the blunders of the rest of the force. Will he fit in? John fit to be played by John Fashanu and/or Konnie from Blue Peter.

For Old Time's Sake

Follows a group of eldery men as they reminisce about their life as male prostitues over a bottle of fresh sake, their drunken antics are then filmed via hidden camera, voice over by Josie D'Arby.

Monday, 16 March 2009

Robot Mug a bee

The year is 2323, and Robert Mugabe has had a futuristic robot replica of himself built so he can continue his reign of terror. However the robot malfunctions (dont ask how) and escapes into the underworld of New Zimbabwe. With nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, he turns to a life of crime where he mugs innocent African bees and wasps for their precious honey (because robots run off honey in the future).

Practice Makes Perfect

Julia Practice is an inventor who is very lonely since her husband died of eczema. She decides to invent a robot companion called P.E.R.F.E.C.T. which stands for personal electronic robotic friend eg companion-tron. Unfortunately when building PERFECT, she spills a glass of rose wine on it and when turning it on she realises the robot is gay.

Sunday, 15 March 2009

Out of Sight, Out of Mind

Criminals who are serving life imprisonment are blinded and left in solitary confinement to gradually die, hilarity comes from the 24hr video surveillance of their descent into madness.

2 Up 2 Down

2 couples live in a flat - 1 couple live upstairs and are always on ectasy and party late into the night with loud music. The other couple live downstairs and have down syndrome, which the upstairs couple think is a permanent comedown so they get along really badly. Possible role for Lizo Mzimba

Let Bygones Be Bygones

Franz Bygones is an eccentric detective and nazi war criminal, he is always acting unusually (i.e. Columbo) but the people of the town always let him get away with it because he always solves the crime stating 'let bygones, be bygones'.

It's all Greek to me

John Xenophobe lives in a house in east london, he is 80 years old and hates anyone not from England, comedy arises from his racist remarks about anything not from his country (ie, Spanish omelette, the euro, and Japanese technology) claiming - 'its all Greek to me'. Ironically his mother and father are Greek.