Sketch Comedy: Run For Your Life – Behind the Scenes

By now you have seen our sketch “Run for Your Life”. Some of you loved it, some of you liked it, and those that hated it are mysteriously missing.

We had a lot of trouble filming this sketch, Joel and I contracted scurvy during the writing process, mainly due to our strict adherence to a diet worthy of 17th Century Sea Sailors. Why oh why didn’t we just eat some oranges! And Adam developed muscle lag trying to lug those guns of his around the shoot location. Ladies, look below at the photo’s to see Adam’s guns.

Anyway, on the shoot day, things were going fairly well, we had finished the sketch and began walking back to our head office.


Luca and Adam discussing the Godfather as Joel sports the sniper rifle in a snazzy thong and jeans combo. Rowan is hidden from view by Adam’s guns.

I was toying with the sniper rifle, which is a combination of two very old childrens toy guns, when suddenly we heard some police sirens off in the distance. There is a police station near where we were going, so we didn’t think much of it, until I saw two police ladies pointing at me and talking into their walkie talkies, presumably to each other. One of them shouted out, “Is that a toy.” To which I naturally replied “…yes.” They then obviously replied, “you’re in a lot of trouble!”


Luca spots the police officer in the distance as we all begin to shit ourselves. The photo shows a male police officer for dramatic effect.

The police ladies then explained to us that an old lady had seen us with the gun, and thinking that we were crazed mad gunmen roaming the streets looking for a nana to make a woman out of, she ran to the local fire brigade and alerted the police.

It was at this point in time that we all weighed up the scenarios, the police, the gun, the poor old lady, and came up with the following conclusion together in our thoughts…. That cop lady is the hottest thing we have ever seen!!!!!

She looked like a combination of this


Cat Power, Audrey Hepburn, and Charlotte Gainsbourg combined

We all looked at each other with suggestive looks as if to say ‘Do you see how hot she is?’ or ‘I don’t care if we get arrested as long as I get handcuffed by her!’

But then a cop car came screaming around the corner and ruined the blossoming love that would surely have happened with one of us, well maybe not Aleisha McCormack, as she is not into woman on woman action I assume.

Anyway this cop jumped out of his car and yelled at us




That’s right, he jumped out of the car and said



We laughed a little, but he was serious, he admitted that if he saw me on the street with the gun he would have shot first and asked questions later. Amazing. He then wanted to book us, but the lovely police ladies convinced him otherwise and then confiscated my toy weapon.

So I dedicate this sketch comedy sketch to my poor lost toy gun, you were the front end of an M60 and the back end of an Easter Show cowboy shot gun. You had been in my life since I was 8, and now you are gone, sharing the halls of that police station with the wonder woman cop, god bless you Sir Gun.

In Loving Memory

(Please note that the images are graphic representations of what happened on the day. No grandmothers were harmed in the shooting of this sketch, however, we did see a grandmother nearby later in the day, lying on the floor with a bunch of medics surrounding her, and we can only hope that she was the same old woman that caused the sad loss of my toy gun)

RJ