The Argument – You’re dead, do you hear me? Dead!
In the original sketch (from The Red Skelton Hour episode, The Bear was a Bare-Faced Liar), an angry wife shoot her husband. She then shouts at the corpse, “Your dead, do you hear me? Dead! You’re dead! Dead! Do you hear me?” The corpse then turns to her and replies, “How can I hear you? I’m dead.”
That’s fine, but I’d make it more “clownish” as follows:
- Have an initial, silly argument first. On virtually anything — whatever will fit your two clown characters. The sillier, the better.
- Have the gun be a “bang” gun (where a little flag pops out with the word “bang” on it)
- Have the “victim” clown make a big, clownish death scene. Taking a long time to die, grasping at his chest, “It’s growing dark,” etc. When he finally “dies”, laying down, kicking his legs up in the air, etc. Once he’s dead, pull out a lily to hold …