Comedy Story Ideas

Comedy premises to hand to a group. Each next writer should be allowed to make it worse.

1. A small-town pet shop accidentally orders a single, very legal tiger.
2. The office Secret Santa goes catastrophically right.
3. Two estranged sisters share custody of their mother's German-speaking parrot.
4. A funeral director's stand-up career takes off at the wrong moment.
5. A village is selected for a TV makeover show and immediately mutinies.
6. The wedding ring is swallowed by the dog. The dog is swallowed by the lake.
7. A man wins the lottery and decides his only purchase will be revenge.
8. The new vicar is, by every metric, a clown.
9. Two competing bake-off contestants are revealed to be the same person.
10. An ill-prepared local council enters a Eurovision-style international fete contest.
11. A man inherits his grandfather's title and learns it is 'Reigning Champion of the Pantomime Horse'.
12. Two retired actors are asked to play themselves in a stage musical of their own lives.
13. A family pet is elected mayor.
14. A self-help guru is being stalked by a fan who already has all the answers.
15. A wedding band is hired by mistake to play a funeral and accidentally improves it.
16. A theatre society stages a production of Macbeth with one performer and a budget of £14.
17. A village pub becomes the unwitting host of an international cheese summit.
18. A man trains his dog to be his life coach.
19. A reality TV crew arrives at a village and is mistaken for the bin men.
20. A retired postman keeps delivering letters he wrote to himself in 1974.