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 Another song parody, one of those titles I'm shocked hadn't been done when I wrote this in 2011. Maybe it has been done since, but not by me. And it's not like there's a ton of New Year's song parodies around, either. But my radio peeps declined it, so here it is... We present this holiday comedy to remind you that my Christmas Comedy Caper, Lost Claus is available over at Amazon. So buy your copy today and avoid the post-holiday rush! New Year, New Year
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 This was a straight-up sound effects bit written for PHC. Weirdly, the file I have saved is incomplete, so I had to pull up a re-written version. Just substitute "GK" for "ANNOUNCER." It's from 2005, as my "use by" date was rapidly approaching. They last used a bit of mine in 2004, and this is for 2005 going on 2006, so it's definitely the tail end of my career there. But it's pure PHC, a gathering of sound effects for their SFX guy to go to town with. Tom Keith was as much a member of the show's cast as anyone else. They could be fun bits and I wanted to belong to the crew, too, so I'd churn these kinds of bits out thinking it would give be a head's up. It never did. Or even writing a New Year's sketch. How many of them are kicking around? We present this holiday comedy to remind you that my Christmas Comedy Caper, Lost Claus is available over at Amazon. So buy your copy today and avoid the holiday rush! New Year’s Noisemakers So, Penny Marshall passed away last week. I have no personal experiences other than the fact that I, like so many others, enjoyed her performances and films. And she was such a pop icon that I felt perfectly comfortable doing a parody of her show, Laverne & Shirley. This is a very old sketch, my only copy was the original typed version, which I scanned and ran through MS Word to post. It was one of my usual mash-up sketches where the title simply presented itself to me. I was a fan of the show and I was very into Sherlock Holmes stories at the time. I think I blended the two worlds very well, although DeFazio does stand around a lot without anything to say. And it was back in the days where my sketches were long, wringing every last drop out of the premise. It's very 70s oriented, with references to Plato's Retreat and such. It's one of the few times I used a cuss word in a sketch, just because the actual expression had to be used for the joke to work. Anyway... RIP, Penny Marshall. Laverne & Sherlock Do I have any business writing a Kwanzaa song parody? See a need, fill a need. I saw a lacking of graduation songs, so I wrote a couple. And did we really need a bunch of new Christmas song parodies? Not really, but I did them anyway! Sure, maybe trying to merge Kwanzaa with an old Englebert Humperdink bassa nova song was an iffy idea at best, but now that the holiday is here and I have a blog to fill, we'll post it! Ha! This edition of Skit Happens is brought to you by "Lost Claus" the snappy Christmas comedy mystery! It's a Chris-mystery! Leaping Yule Logs, Santa's missing! And only one man can find him, Nick Flebber, PI. Get your copy today at Amazon! Kwanzaa, Kwanzaa, Kwanzaa (to "Quando, Quando, Quando") So, it's not just Christmas time Happy Kwanzaa, Kwanzaa, Kwanzaa Getting presents is just fine Not just Angola currency Got no tree or holly wreath Happy Kwanzaa, Kwanzaa, Kwanzaa No mistletoe to stand beneath But we got all our first fruits. Celebrate for eight days Every day just has a theme Let me show you my maize Or give you a brand new book. Seven principals so bright Happy Kwanzaa, Kwanzaa, Kwanzaa Seven days of candle light But it's not like Hanukkah!  Well, the "Red Christmas" is very recent, written earlier this month for TMI: Hollywood. I just saw it as a quick little cold opening number; sing while the photos were displayed. I submitted it with the note telling them I couldn't decide to send it then, because it was the big news story (for about an hour) or wait until the following week for the TMI Christmas show because it was Christmas. I would let them decide. As far as I know, neither happened. Since then, there's been a ton of "Red Christmas" parodies, so I just want to get mine out there. "Dissing" is an older bit that went out to the radio people without a hit, so we present it here... This edition of Skit Happens is brought to you by "Lost Claus" the snappy comedy mystery! Leaping Yule Logs, Santa's missing! And only one man can find him, Nick Flebber, PI. Get your copy today at Amazon! Red Christmas I Saw Mommy Dissing Santa Claus I had forgotten about this skit until we watched "A Christmas Carol" recently and it reminded me about one of the aspects of the film. Hey, look, I love "A Christmas Carol" and most of the movie versions of the story. I've see almost all of them, and a lot of them dozens of times. And after awhile, things start to occur to you, as they would of any story you've seen a hundred times. And as a writer, these are going to become skits. It can't be helped, it's how my brain works. Weirdly, I found this draft of the skit in my prose folder. I think I may have planned to rewrite it again. Which seems like a solid idea. Maybe it'll pop up somewhere next year! This edition of Skit Happens is brought to you by "Lost Claus" the snappy comedy mystery! Leaping Yule Logs, Santa's missing! And only one man can find him, Nick Flebber, PI. Get your copy today at Amazon! The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come Song parodies can be exhilarating or excruciating. Sometimes the whole thing just tumbles out of your, the words scan the song beautifully. Other times it's like pulling teeth. With the 'net, it's a lot easier, with rhyming dictionaries and such, but I have a lot of files that are catchy, punny song titles and not much else. Again, Christmas is something that can be evergreen, unless you use the a pop song that's going to fall out of circulation until the next oldies station decides to focus on the 2010's. But a lot of times, it's the perfect way to nail current events. Or, here, just to have fun for the holidays. If you liked this holiday bit, you'll love my book, Lost Claus, the story of a tough PI and an elf who have to save Christmas. It's over at Amazon. Buy a copy today! I'll be glad you did! Coal Me Maybe Snow Angel When is a Christmas skit not a Christmas skit? When it covers all the holidays! Similar to my Bobby Pickett Sings Halloween bit, this takes the idea of Springsteen trying to expand his Christmas hit to include the other holidays. It's from 2012, for the radio people, and was reworked to a stage bit (with little effort) and sent around, 'til it wound up here. If you liked this bit of holiday fun, you'll love my book, Lost Claus, the story of a tough PI and an elf who have to save Christmas. It's over at Amazon. Buy a copy today! Yule be glad you did! Springsteen Holiday Jam Writing Christmas song parodies out of actual Christmas songs is easy. Just try writing Christmas song parodies out of other Top 40 pop song hits. Then you got something. And what I got is a lot of song parodies that didn't go any where, except here. We present this Christmas comedy to remind you that my Christmas Comedy Caper, Lost Claus is available over at Amazon. So buy your copy today and avoid the holiday rush! Christmas Day Christmas! I found it! As I mentioned yesterday when I posted "Hal's Recycled Tree Lot," that skit was a brother to this sketch. This was a skit from my college days. I forget the reason we wrote it, I don't recall having a venue for it. We often wrote things for the heck of it back then. It was good practice for spending the rest of my life writing things for no reason. But the big tradition in the Northeast is swimming pool dealerships which would start selling Christmas items in the off-season. They were the original places that sold the big over-sized house decorations long before every store carried inflatable lawn displays. So, we thought it would be funny to watch one guy buck the trend. I found this version of the skit re-formatted for submission to the Prairie Home Companion show. It has a very SCTV vibe to it which would slide off into Python absurdity. It's a fun, short bit. This edition of Skit Happens is brought to you by "Lost Claus" the snappy comedy mystery! Leaping Yule Logs, Santa's missing! And only one man can find him, Nick Flebber, PI. Get your copy today at Amazon! Sid's Swim Center |
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