Harold’s Ear
In short comedy script Harold’s Ear, Rebecca tries to help her Uncle Harold remove a cotton ball from within his ear.
Featured Script – Harold’s Ear
FADE IN.
INT. REBECCA’S BEDROOM – AFTERNOON
Rebecca is busy playing her flute. There’s a knock on the door and Uncle Harold enters.
HAROLD: Rebecca, you can’t keep playing your flute all day, each day. I’m liable to have cardiac arrest.
REBECCA: You can’t just enter my room like that.
HAROLD: I’m sorry, but there has to be a limitation to high pitched flute playing.
REBECCA: You said that I can play as often as I wish, and I am choosing to play as often as I wish.
HAROLD: It was a figure of speech. It doesn’t mean I was actually encouraging you to play fiddle diddle all day long.
REBECCA: Well, you figured wrong.
Harold wiggles his ear with his finger.
HAROLD: There has to be a rule set in place. Perhaps we can schedule out a day and time for your practice.
REBECCA: That’s horrible.
HAROLD: What’s horrible?
REBECCA: How do you ever expect me to get good at playing the flute if you are going to set restrictions.
HAROLD: You aren’t the only person living in this house, Rebecca.
REBECCA: I have passion.
HAROLD: And I have a toothache, but that’s life.
REBECCA: I need to practice my instrument.
Harold wiggles his ear again with his finger.
HAROLD: Can’t you practice before I come home?
REBECCA: No.
HAROLD: Why not?
REBECCA: Because I have a process that leads up to my…
Harold wiggles his ear with his finger.
(noticing) Why do you keep putting your finger inside your ear?
HAROLD: Feel like things are muffled in this ear.
REBECCA: Your probably losing your hearing.
HAROLD: I can’t imagine why. I may have cotton wedged deep into my ear because every time you practice I try to keep the sound out.
Harold begins jerking his head to the side, trying to get something out of his ear.
REBECCA: What are you doing?
HAROLD: I like tilting my head to the side and jerking it for your amusement.
Harold continues to jerk his head.
REBECCA: Wait! You’re going to do damage to yourself. Let me have a look.
Rebecca looks inside Harold’s ear.
Yep. I see something white.
HAROLD: Are you serious?
REBECCA: You have what appears to be a piece of white cotton in your ear.
HAROLD: Can you get it out?
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Script Summary
In the short comedy script Harold’s Ear, Harold wishes for his niece Rebecca to stop practicing her flute playing and places a cotton ball in his ear to muffle out the sound. Unfortunately, Harold gets the cotton ball stuck in his ear and needs his niece to help him fish it out with a tweezer.
- Genre: Comedy
- Length: ~10 Minutes
- Script Characters: 1 woman, 1 man
- Age Range: Any
- Themes: family
- Best For: comedy scripts
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Script Source: Harold’s Ear
Harold’s Ear is a comedy script by Joseph Arnone, 2026.
