The Show
Comedy script The Show, real life gangster Vic has created his YouTube Channel, giving lessons to people on how they can be more gangster.
Featured Script – The Show
FADE IN.
INT. WAREHOUSE – DAY
A large room sectioned off in an old warehouse. The place is filled with lighting equipment, set pieces and props.
A dummy is set centerstage of a set piece. A baseball bat rests against it.
VIC and his assistant TOMMY are ‘on set’ getting final things ready before filming a video episode for Vic’s YouTube channel.
Tommy stares up at a row of lights tracked on a wrack in the ceiling.
VIC: Hey Tommy, Tommy, that light ova there, (pointing) no not that one, not that one either, the, YEAH, that one, that one, put that one two inches I think to the left.
Tommy sets a ladder beneath a light and climbs the ladder.
TOMMY: Huh?
VIC: Shift the light, YEAH, that one, ova about one inch to your left.
TOMMY: AH! Ah!
Tommy puts his thumb in his mouth.
VIC: What happened?
TOMMY: Burnt my friggin thumb.
VIC: You arright?
TOMMY: I’ll live.
VIC: I tole ya to wear gloves. Where’s your–
TOMMY: I don’t have friggin’ gloves Tommy, alright?
VIC: This place has everything. You’re just too lazy to go find a pair and put them on.
TOMMY: I forgot, alright? Really.
VIC: Only you would touch the lightbulb. Don’t you know it’s hot?
TOMMY: I do know it’s hot, Vic.
VIC: Grab it from the back, but HOLD ON, you’ll still need gloves.
Vic walks over to a table and finds a pair of workman gloves. He walks over to the ladder Tommy’s on.
Here!
Tommy takes the gloves and puts them on.
That’s all. One inch to the left.
Tommy adjusts the light.
Perfect!
TOMMY: Good?
VIC: Excellent.
TOMMY: Can I come down now?
VIC: Yeah, yeah, come on.
Tommy comes down from the ladder.
TOMMY: We gonna start filming or what? I gotta pick up Tina in an hour.
VIC: Yeah, let me get in position. The camera all set?
Tommy gets behind the camera, which is on a tripod.
TOMMY: You want me to say action like last time?
VIC: What am I paying you for?
TOMMY: Action!
VIC: Give me a second. What are you rushing for?
TOMMY: Come on, Vic. We been settin’ up all morning.
VIC: It’s gotta look professional, don’t it?
TOMMY: You goin’ for an academy award or what?
VIC: Is the camera ready or what?
TOMMY: Been ready.
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Script Summary
In the short comedy screenplay The Show, Vic and his assistant Tommy try to record an episode from their show, “Howta Be a Gangsta.”
- Genre: Comedy
- Length: ~10 Minutes
- Script Characters: 2 men
- Age Range: Any
- Themes: friendship, crime spoof
- Best For: comedy scripts
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Script Source: The Show
The Show is a comedy script by Joseph Arnone, 2026.
