Q. Who was Oscar Wilde? A. A large, dry fruit.

A quick one today, basically an idea I sent to Callum and Al, for a possible addition to the next LLC.

I was listening to 'chain reaction', which is a great radio 4 interview show. One comedian interviews another then the guest becomes the host in the next show. (last week lenny henry talked to bill bailey, yesterday BB talked to simon pegg.) You can catch that show, the last this series on the Radio 4 www listen again thingy.

Anyway it doesn't matter, the point is simon pegg mentioned how it's reallyfunny just to read a trivial pursuit question then read the wrong answer eg.

Q.What is America's best selling brand of rum?
A. The grapes of wrath.

Q. What was Ghana's former name?
A. Bobby Kennedy.

If nothing else I thought i would do this as part of my links between acts next time.

Then I remembered the 2 ronnies mastermind sketch -where for some convoluted reason(a slow satelite link or something) the first answer doesn't come until after the second question ie.

What is the larget living primate?
(no answer)

Who is the prime minister ?
The gorilla.

Who's catchphrase is how tickled I am?
Tony Blair......

We could do this as a sketch - say it's an homage to great comedians of the past (rip off) the beauty is it's easy to write via e-mail with each person adding a bit.

More exciting is the possibility of having the audience write the sketch as the weekly audience competition. We could pass round a sheet of paper and each table would add a question and answer then fold over the top- so only their answer is visible when they pass it on. The next table would write a question in front of the last answer, so that it made a funny pair, and would add the genuine answer to their question below, fold over, pass it on...

Best of all - at the end we cut the paper in two halves and have two scripts to perform. It looks a little complicated but i think with a good explanation in the intro- and a clear well designed paper to pass round, it could work.

What do you think?

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