Brexit Project Pre-Production

Sketch Writing
- Everything Builds
- Rule Of Thirds
- Simple Location
- 1 Setting
- Stupid
- Absurd look at serious subject
- Laugh Tracks
- Keep Big laugh To The End
- Coming to a topper
- 2 Handers
- Innuendo Works Best
- Timing
- Try To Keep Brief
- Dialogue Heavy
- Flip a subject

Sketch
1) Opener
1) Establish (30 Seconds)
2) Escalation
1) Expectation
3) Explosion
1) Reveal
4) Punchline
1) Topper

- Locations
- Single
- Characters
- 4
 Basic Script Layout
- Chekov’s Gun
- Example Script;

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SC.1 INT DAY - STUDIO 1

(BILL, 30, DRUNK, ARRIVES AT THE STUDIO. SLAMS THE DOOR, GOES TO SIT AT HIS CHAIR AND
MISSES. HITS THE GROUND)

BILL: (O/S)
I’M ALRIGHT

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O/S: Off Screen

V/O: Voice Over
EXT - Exterior
INT - Interior
P.O.V. - Point of View
Pan - Left or Right camera move
Tilt - Up or Down camera move

M.S - Medium Shot

C.U - Close Up
E.C.U - Extreme Close Up
W.S - Wide Shot
E.S - Establishing Shot
Finding The Funny In Brexit
• David Cameron
• Danny Dyer
• Teresa May
• Jeremy (C/H)unt
• Agriculture
• BoJo
• Boris Johnston
• Stupid Hair
• Borders
• Selling The NHS To America
• Noel Edmond
• Deal Or No Deal
• No Deal or No Deal
• Innuendo
• Backstop
• Ass joke??
• DUP
• A Big thing no one actually understands
• Hard Brexit
• Soft Brexit
• Jobless
• Drug Laws
• Drug Shortages
• Nigel Farage
• His Bullshit
• Money
• Empty Pockets
• Deportation
• Immigrants
• Shipping Lines
• Drug Shipping Lines
• Paramilitaries
 • I.R.A. “ReUnion” Tour
• £ Crashing
• THE BUS
• 350mil a week
• Forgot the comma??
• Load of bus
• Bullshit
• O2 Roaming
• Hospital Cover
• Recession
• Famine
• Food Shortages
• Middle Class
• Avocados
• British Passports
• Irish Passports
• How does it effect muff petrol?
• Pund Crashing
• Euro stronger
• Boris
• War
• Constant News
• Changes All The Time
• Leo Varadker
• Trump
• American Trade Deals
• Garfields Arsehole
• Nazis
• Far Right
• Alt Right
• Boris Huffing
• Going through parliament
• Ian Paisley Jr
• Scotland Referendum
•

Characters
- Wee Louts
- Opposite
- Surprising
- Correspondents
- “Straight Man”
- Politicians
 - Stupid
- Weirdos
- Twats
- Deviants
- Police
- Training?
- Garda
- Training?
- Hot To Gurus
- Crazy
- Training
- Trainers
- Taxi men
- Posh
- Proper
- Snobby
- Ignorant
- Stupid

Emotions
Uuuughhhhhh!!! x3
Passionate about themselves
Waste of time
Irritated
Horny??
Bored
Angry
Fear
Uncertainty
Maddening
“that’s weird”
Explosions of idiots
Don’t give a shit
Echo Bubbles

Disconnect
Happy
- Profitable

Pitches
- Football Match
- Commentary
- One goal post is across the hard border
 - The British keep moving goal posts
- Throw in
- Ref
- half/half
- Footballer deported
- Costs £1000 to import oranges
- NHS Under U.K.
- Doctor/Bill
- Doctor Slowly turns into a rich pimp U.S. Doctor.
- Surgery
- Pieces from metal turn to plastic
- Fork?
- Scalpel turns into plastic food fork
- Sponge?
- Car park??
- Fake News report
- Coma Cases bored of Brexit
- Pro Brexit News report
- Deaf signer resigns
- Weather report economic forecast
- Advert Post Brexit
- Strabane Real Estate
- Real shitholes now worth millions
- Over the border chase
- Phone Roaming Chargers?
- Post Apocalyptic channel flipping
- No Deal Or No Deal
- Banker tax haven
- Roaming charges
- Lights out
- We’ve just been cancelled
- Box
- Medicine/NHS??

Sketches
Toilet Cubicles
Reality TV
 - Love Island
FLEGS
Border Crossing
Moving The Border
Fake News Report
Stand Up
Monologues
In a Studio
Interview
Little Package
Fake Documentary
Canteen Sketches
VOX Popes
- One Liners
Stupid Characters
Teachers In Classrooms
Football Match
Game Show
- Deal or No Deal
Fake Adverts
- GBH Real Estate

Sketch Info

G.B.H
Cast
- Estate Agent/Jack DuPrix = Pete Davidson
- Couple #1 = Caoimhe + Joshua
- Couple #2 = Aaron + Katie
- Single Man = Jack
Props
- N/A
Crew
- Camera = Alex/Conor
- Edit = Pete
- Sound = Cormac
- Lighting = Conor
 Newscaster
Cast
- Newscaster = Aaron
- Sign Language = Josh
Props
- Suit?
- Radio Studio gear
- Newspaper
- Pen
- Shirt
- Cup
Crew
- Camera + Sound = Conor
- Director = Pete
- Lighting = Conor

No Deal Or No Deal
Cast
- Evan = Sean
- Tresemme = Caoime
- Dave = Dylan
- BoJo = Leo
Props
- 4x Boxes
- Tables
- Phone
- Podium
- Cup
Crew
- Edit = Conor
- Camera = Conor, Alex, Cathal, Josh CK