AUTHOR - SCREENWRITER - HUMORIST - GRUMP
DAVID HINES
Ep. 15: '911 PSA'
Pure silliness.
I'd been listening to a lot of That Mitchell & Webb Sound - a great BBC Radio sketch show starring the always brilliant David Mitchell and Robert Webb - and I'm sure some of their random, goofy, unapologetically dopey (and clever and hilarious) skits influenced me here.
I felt especially lucky to have an actor in Michael that could pull this off. To make the word soup of that second paragraph play like a genuine announcement rather than sounding like someone with marbles in their mouth is no easy feat.
Try it for yourself. Out loud.
Go ahead, I'll wait.
There. See? Toldja. Not as easy as it looks. But he absolutely nailed it.
Should anyone suffering from Dyslexia feel I was making fun of them, I assure you that was not my intent, and I apologize.
Or, to be clearer:
Suffering anyone should Dyslexia from fun making feel was I them of, you assure I intent my not was that, I apologize and.
Air Date: Dec. 15, 2013
SIDESHOW LOUNGE
Episode #015
“PSA - 911”
Written by:
David Hines
ANNOUNCER
The Arfyne City Emergency Telephone
Systems Board would like to announce
the creation of a new emergency phone
service. Due to a recent rash of
misdialed calls by citizens suffering
from dyslexia, a number of pleas for
assistance have gone unanswered by our
local police, fire and health care
personnel. In the future, all dyslexic
citizens in need of assistance should
dial 1-9-1. Thank you.
PAUSE.
ANNOUNCER (cont.)
City Arfyne the Telephone Emergency
Systems would Board like creation
announce to the service phone emergency
new. Recent due of rash a to calls
citizens by misdialed dyslexia from
suffering, pleas of number a assistance
for unanswered gone have by fire, local
care health police and personnel. Dyslexic
future all citizens the in assistance
of need in dial should 9-1-1. You thank.
END.