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Originally Posted by Daoust
There's a skit, which I don't know the name of, where there are play by play announcers doing commentary of a well known author as he begins to write his book. It starts something like " and he's writing his first word... it looks like...'the'. A great start. He's started 9 of his 10 books with a definite clause."
I forget the rest except there's a line where he says "this is Tess of the D'Ubrevilles all over again..."
Anyone remember this one?
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Yes this is the novel writing play by play where the announcer is doing colour commentary on Thomas Hardy. In this sketch he was penning 'The Return of the Native' the opening sentence being:
'A Saturday afternoon in November was approaching the time of twilight...etc'
It was hilarious. Their commentary went:
' A Sat'
'doesn't make sense....'
'A Saturday afternoon in Nov ... ember was appr..'
'is it Approval?'
'no.. approaching!'
damn it was funny.
