Why aren’t there ever any white elephants exchanged during a White Elephant Gift Echange? Oh well. Here’s a sketch for anyone who’s ever been forced into an office gift exchange party.
Save it for December? Well, we’ll exchange it at that time.
For those of you who are not screenwriters or sketch comedy writers, a “Blackout” is the way a scene or sketch can end, by quickly turning out the lights (or just cutting to a black screen in editing).
It is also used to describe a very short sketch with a quick comedic payoff. It’s kind of like a scene with a guy slipping on a banana peel – quick, fast, funny, and then weeks of back surgery later. But we don’t see the back surgery, because there’s a blackout!
Hooray!
Here are a couple Blackouts for your enjoyment.
This sketch goes out to that guy. You know who you are.
INT – LAW FIRM
MARIA, SUZANNE and TIM chat around the water cooler.
TIM
I was working on that
Brooks case for hours.
MARIA
Oh, you ended up with Brooks.
TIM
Yeah.
Staff Clown, JEFF, swaggers up to them.
