For the third year in a row I wrote 30 sketches in September. And I’m proud because I kept pace pretty well all month. Last year I had to keep writing 3 or 4 in a day to make up for days when I fell behind. And last year I had to finish one day into October. But not this year. Other then the first weekend (when I was out of town) I was never more then 1 sketch behind, and most of the time I was right on pace.
Quality-wise I felt this year I wrote more sketches that I didn’t like (But I thought that last year, and when I reread them a while back I enjoyed more then I remembered, so maybe these sketches just need to age).
Here are a few of my personal favorites:
- I wrote this one about Silvija’s Ozols who brings an old foam finger with her everytime we go to a Mets game. - Foam Finger
- Icicle Melodrama isn’t that funny, but I love it anyway. My favorite sketches involve odd concepts, like talking icicles. Or setting the location as nowhere, like I did in Location Nowhere.
- Erik Tanouye wrote a sketch using a title of one of my sketches, so I tried to do the same to him. But I had to change the title because the sketch I wrote didn’t quite fit. So I wrote The Husband Who Took a Bat for His Wife (Erik’s sketch was The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Bat)
- Too Many Crackers is very loosely based on the time I went to the Opera and I think it turned out suitably silly. And Glacier in Bedroom also heightens in a ridiculous way.
- I’ve always thought the best way to write sketches involving President Obama is just to place him as the straight man in unusual situations. Area 51 Water Park is where I attempted that. (I wrote 2 other sketches starring Obama, and he cameo’s in Foam Finger)
If that’s not enough then here is a list of all my sketches for the month.
Things to look for in those other sketches: The Dinner Trilogy. The Return of Dr. Dast and Jake Dagger (from my video Who Poisoned Whose Tea?) - although they return in separate sketches. Jake’s sketch is pretty lame. Sketches staring a demon, a king, and some goblins. Multiple dinosaur appearances. Four sketches inspired using the random article feature on wikipedia. And a sketch with Batman.
