Be like the squirrel, girl

A few thoughts:

I'm not in a sketch comedy group, but I think up of sketch ideas very easily, probably because a startling amount of my free time is spent watching them on the internet. Unfortunately (and I think this is a big problem with me) they're seldom very good, or when they are, they're not really sketches so much as they are either a funny phrase or voice, or it's not so much a sketch as a midly amusing short story. Take this one for example: I'd watched The Last Picture Show just before I left Skidmore, and in it there's this one scene where Jeff Bridges and Cybil Shepherd (sp?) play a high school couple (old movie) trying to have sex for the first time. They go to this motel room, get everything ready, but there's some kind of "problem" and they can't do it. Two of Cybil Shepherd's friends are waiting outside to hear about what it was like, and as soon as Jeff Bridges leaves, they run into the motel room. The sketch idea was sort of like that, only instead of it being a girl, it's a teenage boy who's about to have sex with some preternaturally hot older woman. She opens the door and leaves, and two of his buddies storm the room and find him on the bed half-catatonic and on the verge of tears. They ask him what happened and he goes on to tell them the terrible things they just did. The whole impetus of this was me thinking it'd be funny if a man, half-way to tears, shouted out "She made me make pickles on her!"

But once again, how do you structure that as a sketch? It's not, really. It's more of like a really sad short film that I wouldn't know how to wrap up. So go ahead and steal this idea, internet. See if you can do something with it. I sure can't.