For this project, I was tasked to create a funny skit and or presentation that I would share with the class. This would be something that I would write the script for, act myself, and do everything individually.
This is the research that I did for English is in the pdf listed below.
Here is the script for my humor project:
Humor Script
PHONE SKIT
Start off the first skit by having various ways of showing myself doing work. This should go on for 15 seconds or so.
Cast: Alex(me), Mom(also me)
Alex: (THINKING) “Oh man, I finally finished all of that work. 4 hours of homework every day is exhausting, I don’t know how I end up doing this every day!”
*Picks up phone and answers snapchats*
Alex: (CONT. THINKING) “Ayy yeah wassup homie, what’s crackin. Ayee wassup girl how you doin”
*Mom enters room*
Mom: “Alex, dinner is in 5 minutes come help set u-”
*Sees Alex on his phone and proceed to flip out*
Mom: “ALEX WHAT THE PPHHHUCCC-
*Alex is visibly confused*
Alex: “What??”
*Mom is visibly distraught*
Mom: “You’re on your phone! That’s ALL YOU EVER DO! You never focus on your schoolwork or anything at all! All you do is stare at that tiny little screen. You’re such a disappointment, why can’t you be like your sisters!?”
Alex: “I just did all of my homework, I was working for like the past 4 hours straight! I *JUST* picked up my phone.”
*Mom looking even more offended*
Mom: “Did you just talk back to me?”
*Alex realizing he messed up, scrambling for words*
Alex:“No, I’m just telling you what I d-”
Mom: “No, YOU JUST TALKED BACK TO ME.”
Alex: “No I-”
Mom: “HOW DISRESPECTFUL OF YOU.”
*close up of Alex*
Alex: “Well f-”
*End skit one
Argument Skit
*At dinner table*
Mom: “Hey Alex I noticed that you have a C in film, what happened?”
Alex: “Oh it’s nothing, Mr. Taylor just hasn’t entered my new assignments ye-”
Mom: “No, I think that it’s that you never work hard enough.”
Alex: “Huh? What does that mean?”
Mom: “Take a look at yourself, you’re like the ugly duckling but you never ended up doing well. You should have ended up like your sisters if you tried harder.”
Alex: “But mom I’m not my sisters, I’m my own person.”
Mom: “You guys are related, so you must have the same abilities”
Alex: “No Mom I AM NOT MY SISTERS!”
Mom: “Were you just talking back to me?”
Alex: “Nope, I’m just pointing out the facts.”
Mom: “You need to stop being so disrespectful.”
Alex: “You literally just called me the ugly duckling that never turned out to be good.”
Mom: “Well yea? I’m your Mom and I can do what I want. You see this lightswitch?”
Alex: “Yea…”
Mom: “The lights turn on because of me. You see this roof above you? That’s because of me. Now be more respectful, you still-ugly duckling.
Alex: (Mumbling) “Yea talk about respect…)
Mom: “WHATCHU SAY BOY”
*Grabs belt and chases after Alex”
END
Completing this project, the hardest challenge that I faced was doing 100% of the work by myself. I didn’t even want my family to help me with the project because I was making fun of my mother in all of the scripts. If I showed it to her, then it would ruin the surprise of showing the project to my family would be ruined. So then I challenged myself to do the whole project by myself, even without the help of help of my family.
