Evo Looshun

A puppeteer and her/his puppet debate evolution in this comedy skit.

Cast: 2 (including puppet)

• Puppeteer
• Puppet: Evan Lipsinker / Evo Looshun

Bible Reference: Psalm 100:3

Set:

• blank with chair

Sound: wireless mics if available

Song: none

Lighting: standard

SFX: none

Props: none

Costumes: standard

Special Instructions:

• puppeteer is ventriloquist or an offstage voice for puppet lines

Time: 10

Sample of script:

actor comes onstage carrying suitcase, swings suitcase

Evan, voice:  Hey, hey, hey! . . .  Careful of the merchandise!

P:          Oh hush now, sounds like you are just always complaining for the sake of complaining.

Evan:       That’s what you always say! . . . (mimics), complaining for the sake of complaining! . . . . What does that mean anyway?

P:          Means you are being a giant pain is what!

Evan:       Sure that’s fine for you to say.  . . . Me, I’m stuck here in this here smelly old suitcase,  . . . likely there’s all kinds of bugs and moths and anteaters in here!

P:          There’s no anteaters in your suitcase, anteaters are too big to fit in that suitcase.

Evan:       Well maybe better you could get an anteater in here. . . . Anteater could eat all the bugs and moths and such! . . . Why do I have to travel in an old suitcase anyhow? I can hardly breath in here.

P:          Oh stop your complaining, I’ll get you out!

takes Evan out of suitcase, lifts Evan to perform

Evan:       Hey, hey, hey! . . . Anyone ever tell you . . . you have the coldest hand!

P:          Oh brother! . .  So now my hand is too cold? . . .  You can’t even feel my hand, you are a puppet! . . . Anyhow, anything else you want to complain about?

Evan:       Well, now you mention it . . .  there are times our breath isn’t all that sweet, and it wasn’t me that ate the garlic toast.

P:          I happen to like garlic toast.

Evan:       Maybe consider getting someone else to give me a hand on days you hit the all you can eat garlic toast buffet?

P:          OK look, this seems to be complaint day. . .  Anything else on your mind?

Evan:       Yes as a matter of fact! . . . Like I said, why is it I have to have an old worn out suitcase to live in?

P:          Just think of it as your low rent dressing room.

Evan:       Behold my friend the comedian! . . . Laugh . . . I thought I’d never start!
Why can’t I have a nice padded carrying case like my friend Pinocchio?

 

P:          You figure out how to make your nose grow like Pinocchio and we’ll talk.

Evan:       You never did tell me where I came from.

P:          Where you came from?

Evan:       Yeh, Pinocchio said he came from a tree, so I want to know where I came from.

P:          My best guess would be that you came from Walmart.

Evan:       That’s hardly exciting, I mean why couldn’t I have come from a tree, or a rock, or maybe a piece of cotton candy. . . .  Yeh, I like the cotton candy thought. . . . Makes sense on account of I am just so very sweet.

P:          In your dreams.

Evan:       You have anger issues today it seems. . . Now where were we?

P:          You were protesting where you came from as I recall.

Evan:       OK, where did you come from oh Puppeteer Supreme?

P:          Well I came from God; God makes all people.

Evan:       Now that’s hardly fair! . . . God made you, but I likely was made by some guy at Walmart, and my maker dude was likely making minimum wage.

P:          Look I don’t make the rules.

Evan:       Yeh and I am stuck with them. . . . But my friend Alonzo told me that people came from monkeys and such. . . .