Sketch Please!

Happy New Year! We're waving goodbye to 2020 with a canter through a few more of your sketches. Sketch Please is the open-source sketch comedy podcast written and performed by you @sketchpleasepod. Get involved! Katharine Kerr@katkerrradio introduces sketches by: Amelia Stephenson Rebecca Bain and Alex Garrick-Wright Vincent Lynch Rohan Agalawatta Alf Oldman Wayne Timms Bravely brightening us up from tier to tier, our performers this time are: Amelia Stephenson and Amy McCann... ...are 2 parts of comedy trio Quirks and Foibles. They release a new sketch every Monday at 6pm. Follow them on Youtube via @quirksandfoibles quirksandfoiblessketch on Facebook and Instagram quirks_foibles on Twitter Tom Scudamore... ...is a sketch writer and facilitator of improv, running classes for adults and exercises with kids! He regularly presents masterclasses in devising, story and drama for young people on YouTube interactive arts-based channel "Yes Let's" (Twitter: @YesLetsYouTube, YouTube: Yes Let's). Follow Tom on Twitter @tomsketchamore, and look out for his new sketch YouTube channel in 2021, "SCUDASHORTS"! Luke Murray... ...is the writer and creator of Bedsitcom, a romantic comedy about awkward workplace romance produced by Podcast Pioneers. He's working on a new play and the next series of his sitcom. https://www.podcastpioneers.com/bedsitcom Featured sketches are performers are below in order: - The Coroner's Inquest - Amelia Stephenson USHER - TOM THE CORONER - LUKE DR VICKI - AMELIA - Obnoxious Driving Lessons - Rebecca Bain and Alex Garrick-Wright INSTRUCTOR - AMY GARY - LUKE - 2020 Coma - Vincent Lynch NURSE - LUKE PATIENT - AMELIA DOCTOR - TOM - Stuck in a Lift Batman - Rohan Agalawatta BRUCE WAYNE - LUKE CALL HANDLER - AMY - Government Through the Looking Glass - Alf Oldman INTERVIEWER - AMELIA MR CARROLL - TOM - Top Rated Medical Drama - Wayne Timms INTERN - TOM DOCTOR - AMY If you'd like to write for Sketch Please, get in touch using the email address sketchplease@podcastpioneers.com. We'll be back again soon with more of your writing!

Sketch Please returns with a rampaging crop of brilliant comedy sketches, written and performed by people like you. Thanks to the internet we’ve been able to carry on making our show and after a strange few months it’s nice to be a bit silly again, isn’t it? Sketch Please is presented by @katkerrradio and made by Podcast Pioneers to add to the writing and performance opportunities available in podcasting for rising talent. You can submit your sketches and put your name forward to appear on a show by emailing us at sketchplease@podcastpioneers.com. With many thanks to our writers and performers this time. 1. PATRICK ROBINSON - BAR SKETCH WOMAN - Katie Bennett BAR staff - Edward Dyson 2. BECCA BAIN AND ALEX GARRICK-WRIGHT - TINDER DATE GETAWAY SUZY - Sarah Tattersall ANDREA -Estefania Hageman 3. MICHAEL MONKHOUSE - PLACE SCHOOL TOM - Edward Dyson DICK - Estefania Hageman 4. HOLLIE WILSON - CRIMINALS FEELING SHORT CHANGED REPORTER - Sarah Tattersall CRIM - Katie Bennett 5. BELINDA BRADY - REFEREES ANONYMOUS JO - Estefania Hageman TERRY - Edward Dyson 6. ROB SMYTH - ARE WE NEARLY THERE YET? NASA - Edward Dyson ASTRONAUT 1 - Sarah Tattersall ASTRO 2 - Katie Bennett ASTRO 3 - Estefania Hageman 7. GARY MULOCK - DR JEKYLL GOES TO THE THEATRE MISS WEBB - Sarah Tattersall Dr Jekyll - Edward Dyson 8. NICOLE COLCHETE - HELP AN MFA STUDENT OUT REBECCA - Sarah Tattersall CATHERINE - Katie Bennett OUR WRITERS Patrick Robinson Becca Bain & Alex Garrick-Wright Michael Monkhouse Hollie Wilson Belinda Brady Roby Smyth Gary Mulock Nicole Colchete ABOUT OUR CAST SARAH TATTERSALL Sarah Tattersall is an actor, stand-up and writer. Pre-Covid, her 2019 stand-up show ‘Girls With Jokes’ and theatre show ‘Me and My’ enjoyed multiple sell-out runs across the UK. Post-Covid, well, who knows. Catch her next in sketch show ‘Box of Charms’, and now 2021 show ‘Culture, Media and Sport’ with her company Funny Bird Productions. All social media: @sarahjtat @funnybirdprod @boxofcharmstv for sketches KATIE BENNETT Katie is an actor who has always had a love for all things comedy! She is 1/3 of Comedy Sketch Trio ‘Quirks & Foibles’, who release NEW, original sketches online EVERY Monday! You can follow Katie on Twitter & Instagram @katiefbennett AND you can also keep up to date with Quirks & Foibles on Twitter @Quirks_Foibles, on Facebook @QuirksAndFoiblesSketch and even subscribe to their YouTube Channel https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCZfF-dCk-p0XmzhNfAgdUIg @katiefbennett Her sketch group Quirks and Foibles are still making comedy from different parts of the UK. @quirks_foibles on Twitter @quirksandfoiblessketch on Facebook For new sketches every Monday at 6pm on Youtube ESTEFANIA HAGEMAN Estefania Hageman is a Latina comedian and writer based in London. Estefania holds zero awards or accolades, but has logged many hours doing stand up in gorgeous, dimly-lit bars and off-brand, underground comedy clubs. Raised on programs like Strangers With Candy and Comedy Def Jam, Estefania's brand of comedy is often hailed as "niche" or "loud". Website: http://www.estefaniahageman.com/ Twitter: @Estefanialol IG: @Estefaniabaha ED DYSON Ed Dyson is a podcaster, author, comedy writer and journalist living in London. United Queendom Podcast on Apple, Spotify and Soundcloud @unitedqueendompodcast on insta @unitedqueendom1 on Twitter Comedy sketches, outrageous stories and impressions. APPLE PODCASTS https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/united-queendom-podcast/id1482277960 TWITTER https://mobile.twitter.com/edwarddyson205?lang=en MUSIC PROVIDED BY: FREE MUSIC ARCHIVE Lobo_Loco_-_25_-_Duo_Fanfare_News_Jingle_1_ID_419 Three_Jolly_Rogues_-_09_-_Greenland_Whale_Fisheries

Back with sketches about middle class problems, financially insolvent vampires and… bullshit, all from the minds of talented writers from the internet. Also from our cast: a heartwarming story about swinging in castles, homemade kefir, and a 7 minute exploration of Star Wars and historical geopolitics. It’s shambolic but quite informative, and we guarantee you will listen to this episode and think, “Ah, I listened to this episode.” Presented by Katharine Kerr @katkerrradio Starring David Sylvester @dershapeshifter, Julie Flower @julieflower4 and Susan Cunningham. Sketches written by Elliot Stewart, Chris Ballard, Wayne Timms, Bryan Burke and Isiah Headen. 1.Horror legends- Elliot Stewart 04:18 Vampire - Julie Monster – Susan 2 National trust - Chris Ballard 07:09 Receptionist / Tea Room - Julie Wife - Susan Husband – David 3.Diet sketch - Wayne Timms 10:27 Chris - Susan Gloria - Julie Phone guy / Waiter - Katharine 4.Vader S***s shyly in the Death Star - Bryan Burke 20:55 Darth - Susan Palpatine – David 5.Canoe Sketch - Isiah Headen 24:34 Kid - Susan Dad – David

Recorded on our first May Bank holiday, we spend an inordinate amount of time discussing what doesn’t happen in the latest of Marvel’s Avengers franchise then everyone loses it, leading to some nail-biting editing retrospectively. See if you can spot the points where KK had to cut out these things: * Rude jokes about Endgame * Soho sex shops * Post-party paranoia * Bad things happening on good buses * General descent into madness Meet this month’s supremely nice performers: Hannah Tarrington is an actor and comedy performer and has just joined the National Youth Theatre. On the side she helps businesses with their branding. She credits being a nice dickhead and winging it with her success. Follow @han_tarrington on Twitter or hannahalisontarrington@gmail.com for small business branding. Phoebe Hitt is part of an award-nominated all female comedy group as well as a musical group called Accomplished Ladies, which follows women from different periods of history with songs and japes. She also has Grade 4 on the flute. Follow @Phoebehitt or @accomplishedla1 and catch them on the 6th July at Buxton Fringe. Robbie Sunderland rode bareback on a griffin all the way from Norfolk to join us. He writes for the monthly BBC New Comedy show there and has written and performed one of the sketches today. You can find him @robbie_sun89 and @bbcnewcomedy Derek Murphy is an actor and producer of audio, stage and a web series.. He’s just starred in "The Platform" at the Bread and Roses theatre in London and is producing a new writers night on the 8th of June at the Abacus Art Studios in Elephant and Castle. He also starts in Sequins, a movie which is currently touring on the festival circuit. Find him at @derekmmurphy and @delight_dk for DK Delight Productions. And thanks to our super duper writers below. Remember, you can also write a 2/3 page sketch or appear on the show as a performer - just submit your details to perform via sketchplease@podcastpioneers.com. Follow us on @sketchpleasepod and check out our website www.podcastpioneers.com. CLICHE MEASUREMENT - AMBER PHILLIPS SHOPKEEPER - Derek WOMAN - Hannah FOUR-WHEEL DRIVE - WAYNE TIMMS TOBY - Robbie ANGUS - Derek JENNIFER - Phoebe AIR RAISIN’ - MICHAEL MONKHOUSE TRAVEL AGENT - Robbie CUSTOMER - Hannah BOSS - Phoebe POLICE SHORTAGES - GARTH APTHOMAS SERGEANT - Phoebe RESIDENT - Derek WAR ON CANCER - HENRIK PERSSON TERRY - Robbie LIZ - Hannah COOK RIGHT - ELLIOT STEWART COOK - Hannah INT - Phoebe TRAIN PAIN - ANON JOURNO - Derek CALLER - Robbie PA / STELLA - Phoebe PA2 / LOU - Hannah BATH BOMB - ROBBIE SUNDERLAND MIKE - Robbie JULIE - Phoebe SOPHIE - Hannah KOWALSKI - Derek

Themes of food and crime knit seamlessly together in this month’s crop of sketches, written by you! This month, Sketch Please was written by: Kristie McNiel, Joe Young, Chris Ballard, Leonie Rachel, Henrik Persson, Paul Nash and Patrick Robinson. It stars... Ruby Martin, a stand-up and podcast host: Monthly arts and craft comedy night Wednesday 20th March Comical Comedy @comical_comedy Trashfiremag.com for her honest funny takes on how we’re all bad people @rubymartinart @nsfwriting for her smutty fan fiction podcast Phoebe Batteson-Brown, an actor, performer, voice artist and one half of sketch duo Ladylikes: @ladylikescomedy ladylikescomedy.com phoebebattesonbrown.com Check out her show Top Secret House Party Plus Sketchy Ladies on Thursday 21st March at the Water Poet, London, 7pm Katerina Robinson is an actor, stand-up comedian and writer: @misskaterinar www.katerinarobinson,com You can star in Sketch Please too. Just send in your name or sketch with the subject title ‘performer’ or ‘sketch’ to sketchplease@podcastpioneers.com. You can follow our host Katharine Kerr @katkerrradio on Twitter. This month’s sketches in order: Kristie McNiel - Come Dine with Me Spoof Joe Young - Adventurous Dining Chris Ballard - DIY Sketch Leonie Rachel - Wellness R Us Henrik Persson - Foxhole Paul Nash - Mugger Rugger