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A short, yet beautiful epic on the subject of flatulence. Screenplay listed below: [Jay-Z] yeah Yeah I’m out that Brooklyn. Now I’m down in Tribeca. Right next to DeNiro But I’ll be hood forever I’m the new Sinatra And since I made it here I can make it anywhere (Yeah they love me everywhere) I used to cop in Harlem All of my Dominicanos (Hey yo) Right there off of Broadway Brought me back to that McDonalds Took it to my stash spot 560 State Street Catch me in the kitchen like Simmons whipping Pastry Cruising down 8th street Off-white Lexus Driving so slow (but BK, it’s from Texas!!) Me I’m out that BedStuy Home of that boy Biggie now I live on Billboard and I brought my boys with me Say what up to Ta-ta Still sipping Mai Tais Sitting courtside Knicks and Nets give me high-5 N**ga, I be Spiked out I could trip a referee …tell by my attitude that I’m MOST DEFINITELY FROM… [Alicia Keys] New York!!!! Concrete jungle where dreams are made of, There’s nothing you cant do, Now you’re in New York!!! These streets will make you feel brand new, the lights will inspire you, Let’s hear it for New York, New York, New York [Jay-Z] I made you hot n-gga, Catch me at the X with OG at a Yankee game, sh-t I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can, you should know I bleed Blue, but I ain’t a crip tho, but I got a gang of n-ggas walking with my clique though, welcome to the melting pot, corners where we selling rocks, Afrika bambaataa sh-t, home of the hip hop, yellow cab …
Before you view ‘The Con Artiste’ I would like to give you a brief history of the sketch. The original concept of a seemingly intelligent man trying to pass something off as his own when common knowledge dictates that this was not the case came when I was drafting ideas for sketches during A Levels, and this was always my favourite premise. I scripted it properly in Autumn 2006 and produced it as a piece for radio. Last month the opportunity arose through work to perform it on live television on a Sky channel called Fame TV. They asked me to do any talent I wanted so I enlisted my colleague Adam to play one part while I would play the other. I scripted the sketch from scratch making it appropriate for television and got hold of the necessary props. We had a month to rehearse it after the script was written for 24th May, but then on 24th April, disaster struck. It turned out we were going that day, 3 days after it had been written and no rehearsals or line-learning undertaken. Adam couldn’t commit to learning and rehearsing it in one day so I undertook to play both roles myself. So — at 10am on 24th April I went home to get my props, memorizing the script on the way, came back to work and rehearsed it, then at 1:30 went off to the studio to do the sketch. I’m of the opinion that the quality of the performance does not do justice to the quality of the writing but it’s still a lovely little sketch, albeit a tad sloppy with a dual-role performance. Although I have heard the …
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