TVSquad

Well, certainly it should relate to this blog in someway. So maybe a piece on television addiction or a guy that thinks television is the real world or simply a TV that enacts its revenge for the viewer forcing it to display shitty reality tv.

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How about two people catching up after having not seen each other for a while. One persons side of the conversation is made up completely of obscure television references. All of their friends are tv characters and all of the things they have done are straight out of episodes of tv shows. Starting with the more obscure references, as it goes on they become more and more obvious.

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I second doc's idea.

That is an endless reservoir of gold right there.

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An idea I figure I'd post here:

The feds pay a visit to a home where they believe illegal music and movie downloads are happening. One after another, the feds are shown reasons why there's NO way this person could have done these crimes. Examples: elderly woman/man; doesn't own a computer; has no electricity at all (lives in a shack in the woods); has no fingers (for typing) -- the evidence gets more and more ridiculous. It could end a couple of ways: The feds finally give up and leave, and the suspect calls out that the coast is clear, pulls up a hatch in the floor and we see a room full of nerds on computers. Or: The feds, desperate to pin something on this guy, find an old audio cassette dated from 1978 with a recording of a local banjo troupe.

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I always liked jokes based on "pitch meetings" and similar Hollywood industry speak. You could have TV execs who are being pitched original and creative ideas, and find all sorts of excuses why those kids of shows don't fly in the sticks. But scantily clad women eating the testicles of farm animals? Pure TV gold.

You could have these execs greenlight the exact same show over and over again, even when the pitch is verbatim what they greenlighted just minutes before.

The problem is, it could be considered funny or unfunny because it is a situation that we all envision is all to real.

I know that making fun of industry execs is sort of fish-in-a-barrel type humor, but given the animosity that seems to exist on this blog for Fox and other network honchos, I think the potential for humor to be mined from this is limitless.

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A TV freak fades in and out of reality, and reality TV. At inopportune times, his/her life becomes a reality show, or game show, or even sitcom. She's/He's totally aware of this and engages fully. In improvisational comedy there's a game called Obstacle Course that would fit this concept perfectly. Comedians are performing one game and the game suddenly changes. Hard to explain that game without jumping up and down and showing you how it's done. (Maybe my idea is a Nevermind!)

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What about having a tech support guy come to a persons house only to find some, shall we say, interesting things going on in the house. While trying to figure out what is going on in the network the tech guy goes from room to room and each one is more and more crazy - think starting off with a woman in a bathing suit answering a door, the first room just has mirrors all over the place, the next has two people making out, next is a dungeon, etc... The beauty is that the tech guy has only seen some of this on the internet and believed it all to be fake.

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Two guys meet in hell. One is a mass murderer who killed hundreds of people over a long stretch of time. The other stole cable (or satellite) service. Hilarity ensues.

If we are going topical, then there is always the 'Britney Spears School of Fine Driving'. Make sure your 4-month-old is strapped close to the steering wheel.

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In a board meeting of a corporation, the CEO and his executives are going through some agenda items, and one of the executives brings up that the employees are VERY dissatisfied with their current health plan. But the CEO thinks it's fine. The executives try to convince him otherwise, saying that the current plan only "allows employees to visit free clinics" or "the closest to prescription drug payout is free samples of Advil in the breakroom" and etc, etc. The CEO responds to each of these claims with ill-advised ideas to boost morale and take the employee's minds off of it. "Ok I hear what you're saying about the plan, and I think there's definitely some oppotunity for morale improvement there. So let's take action. We're going to organize a day out at the park"...the executives can answer those with items such as "Well, that would be an option however half of accounting is battling something called the bird flu" or something less obvious.

That's the idea.

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How about a skit about a guy who's convinced he's on a hidden camera reality show - but, of course he isn't. For the sake of this post, we'll call him Bob. He lives with three roomates who start to think he's insane (which...I guess he would be).

Bob could do things like "testimonials" in the bathroom while his roomates outside wonder why he's talking to himself about them. Another example could have someone announcing that their crazy brother is coming in town for the week. Bob, of course, would assume this to be a "sweeps week" ratings stunt. I think it would be good to have for Bob occassionally mug to objects where he believes the camera is hidden.

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Have a sketch that focuses on a detective that investigates questions that most people never seem to ask nor even care about, but really don't know the answer to.

One example could be his in depth investigation to find out if squirrels poop. I mean you never see their droppings anywhere while birds paint the town off white.

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