Originally Posted by Michael Zaneski
Okay..a satirical pitch from the other viewpoint..If I was a current writer on SNL, I'd be pitching the following sketch idea.

The setting, 600 BC, Rome. Dialogue in the style of Sophocles, and with a Greek Chorus. Pythagoras has just discovered the earth is round and has traveled to Rome to inform its senate. He takes his findings to the "senate" where Wiggus Maximus (Alec Baldwin reprising his Trump) sits, toga clad.

Pythagorus pitches Wiggus.

Wiggus is not impressed and taunts the Greek by holding onto the "thag" part of his name when addressing him, saying "so, PyTHAGoras..what is this science you keep talking about,"

Then, "PyTHAGoras, what are these scientific facts? --they sound like FAKE facts, to me" and the other senate members nod in agreement and the Greek Chorus has been repeating eveything Wiggus says verbatim.

Then "how else to explain Boltonius, Sessionus,Tillersonius, Scarramuccilus and Comeytose--all wandering off, never to be found? They wandered off and fell off the earth, everyone knows that. It's a cold, hard, fact."

At this point, Pouncius whispers to Wiggus, "sir, you fired all those guys.."


Wiggus ends with "PyTHAGoras, when you say 'the earth is round' ---it's as preposterous as a belief that one day, many eons from today, there will be so much poop..let's call it waste..let's call it emissions..that one day there will be SO MUCH poop and waste and emissions from everything..and maybe..maybe not enough TREES hahaha that it will..that it will..(Wiggus ponders)..make a hole in the sky that makes the sun too hot and then we'll all eventually DIE, hahahaha...ridiculous...The earth is FLAT! Go home, THAGGY.......Here's MY cold, hard fact!"

(Wiggus reaches under his toga, slightly off camera, but the audience response informs what he did..)

Last edited by Michael Zaneski; 09/23/19 06:30 PM.
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