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A Cherry Revisited..
By woody44
25 April 2006
The scene is the cosy kitchen of an old cottage.Gran is busy making an apple pie and her grandson, who has come to visit, is sitting in gran`s comfy armchair reading her `News Of The World`. Comedy? Perhaps just a little gentle humour...

  
    Boy  (peering from behind newspaper)...What`s carnal knowledge gran?


    Gran (busy kneading dough)...Well it`s when a young man get`s to know a young lassie..


    Boy (back behind paper)...Did grandad have carnal knowledge gran?


    Gran...Oh I ya grandad were a great one for carnal knowledge...Saturday night after the pub usually...



    (Silence for a while as boy carries on reading)...What`s F.a.l.a.t.i.o gran?


    Gran (frowning)....Sounds like some sort of foreign bean to me son..



     (Pause as boy reads a little more)...Says here gran this young lad`s mother gave him these beans every night for nearly three years.


     Gran (rolling out pastry)...Nothin else, just beans?


      Boy....Doesn`t say he had nothin` else gran


      Gran (now cutting pastry)...Poor little bugger.


      (Boy turns pages and continues to read)...There`s a bit here gran about a young girl crying. Says it`s cos she`s lost a cherry.


      Gran (slipping pastry top over apple pie base)...Most precious thing a lassie can lose son..her cherry



      Boy...have you ever lost a cherry gran?


      Gran (crimping edges of pastry)..Oh eye lad..many years ago


      Boy...Did grandad help you find it.


       Gran..No lad, it were before I met ya grandad.


     Boy..And did you cry grandma?


      Gran (brushing milk over pastry tip)..From what I remember son, we both bloody cried.



      (Boy goes back to reading paper)....Gran, what`s a transvestite..


     Gran (picking up apple pie)....now just you put that paper down lad and open yon oven door...


       


 
 

Reviews
Hi Woody
Written by BrianRobertNeal (1195 comments posted) 25th April 2006
A nice gentle amusing read.  
 
Mind I don't think they'd invented sex when my granny was a girl. 
 
Brian
GRAN'S TALK
Written by Bottleblondesurfer (3445 comments posted) 25th April 2006
Just read Brian's review. I wonder how he thinks he got here? 
Yes,well that's the trouble with Gran's talk, just as it get interesting they want to change the subject. 
I was half expecting a Givitsum style bloodbath at the end but it was more true to life. Life goes on and you have to live in ignorance. At least she didn't tell you a transvestite was a small portable radio like mine did. I felt such a food in Dixons. 
Anyway a nice,funny little piece and well told, any more where that came from?
Nice One.
Written by gerardconnolly (1186 comments posted) 26th April 2006
Well done Woody I liked this one. And all the better in my opinion for scripting. Gives it a much sharper focus. 
 
Slainte!
ta all
Written by woody44 (777 comments posted) 27th April 2006
thanks Brian, MrsB and Gerard. I think I`ll leave the bloodbath to Givitsum, he does it far, far better than I ever could. Hurry back Gerard, I`ll take the time you are away to try and put a bit more bite in the comedy, although I do tend to err on the side of gentle humour. (just a pussy cat really). The one really good thing about this site is the fact that it has got me writing again after straying into other less wholesome activities. (please don`t ask) 
 
 
happy writing...
Be Gentle
Written by Bottleblondesurfer (3445 comments posted) 27th April 2006
"to try and put a bit more bite in the comedy, although I do tend to err on the side of gentle humour." 
 
I would take issue with "err"; nothing wrong with gentle humour, sweetie, A joke that sneaks up on you and tickles you under the chin is as valid as one that stamps on your foot and smacks you round the chops. I,personally, have a catholic taste in humour-I find the pope very funny indeed- when he blesses the masses I just fall about. Play to your strengths that's what I say... and I'm trying hard to think of a less wholesome acivity than writing!

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