Satire on Sexism
"What Were You Wearing". A great example of making a touchy subject funny.
SKETCH ANALYSIS
Here's a great example of approaching a touchy subject from a different or a flipped viewpoint from the Tracy Ullman's Show. Written by Gemma Arrowsmith.
This sketch is great because it's short and succinct but packs a punch! It comes in at just under two minuets.
I love how the start of the sketch starts off with emotion. Launches into the game of it with the common phrase "what were you wearing" and uses it against a man and the crime has been changed to a mugging.
The heightening of asking if he'd been drinking and then subsequently if he screamed were great inclusions of other sexist questions.
The button uses another instance and points to the absurdity of the line of questioning by bringing up fonts!
A comedic sketch device used in a minor way in this sketch was the was pile on: where multiple people kept entering the room upsetting the protagonists goal and playing the sketch's game.
I highly recommend studying this sketch if you're looking at tackling touchy social satire!
BONUS:
The Author wrote a piece on the sketch:
A .pdf of the script:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/writers/documents/tracey-ullman-what-were-you-wearing-gemma-arrowsmith.pdf