U Kno Wot I Mean?
U Kno Wot I Mean is a new comedy sketch show with a difference. It’s funny.
Not funny ha ha; funny ha ha ha. And in the case of some sketches, funny, ha ha heh? Not everyone will get them
It will not slavishly follow the current mode of character-based comedy, rather it will reflect situations and comic circumstances.
It will engage in light-hearted banter, farcical slapstick, dark innuendo and silly semantics. Performers will blur the perceptions of the audience, some will be actors, including potential superstars of the future, others will be teenagers from inner city projects and former participants of Big Brother. The two are not necessarily synonymous.
Who are Becky and Jessica cheering? Why has the goalkeeper left his goalposts, dressed up as the Archbishop of Canterbury and started reading the weather on tv?
U Kno Wot I Mean will take a postmodernist approach to comedy, but when there’s vox-popping to be done in the street, look forward to traditional fare. Don’t expect innovation for innovations’ sake. It will not just be a sketch show; life isn’t just existence. Virtual reality isn’t just virtual reality; although it is, virtually.
Nothing will be predictable. Characters from the past will be depicted in slightly unusual circumstances. What is Richard doing to Hyacinth over that restaurant table, surely they’ll have to clean the tablecloth now…well, she shouldn’t have made such a fuss about the speck of dust on her fork. Look, there’s Mrs Slocombe….who is the performer playing her? Don’t I recognise her from Big Brother under that wig?
Whilst a few well-known characters will appear during the series, the emphasis will be on the new and the original. A look at the darker side of comedy will rely on the odd wry smile, rather than belly-laughs. In Eyebrow Fetish, a surprising series of events begin with an obsessive character videoing the eyebrows of attractive women on the tube and ends with a homage to Mrs Robinson. You never know where things will go, whether they’ve got where they’re going, or whether they’ll ever get there. But you can expect plenty of U Kno Wot I Mean?
Why is Kirsty going to teach her class of unruly teenagers, wearing cricket gear?
Zoe & Melissa don’t look like dumb blondes? Whoever could think that about such talented actors?
There’s a tramp on the beach and some strange things happening between Suzie Verrico and a young man. He may not be the Graduate, but he’s certainly learning!
