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Sketched Shenanigans is a 2023 British sketch comedy web film produced by Jack Bilsborough and Toby Arrowsmith and directed by Jack Bilsborough. The film consists of 31 sketches that are, for the most part, unconnected. The sketches themselves show characters in absurd and abnormal lives and extremely bizarre situations.

Sketched Shenanigans
Directed by	Jack Bilsborough
Written by	Toby Arrowsmith Jack Bilsborough Christopher Kershaw
Produced by	Toby Arrowsmith Jack Bilsborough
Starring	Toby Arrowsmith Jack Bilsborough Christopher Kershaw
Cinematography	Toby Arrowsmith
Edited by	Toby Arrowsmith
Production companies	JAT Productions [moron tv]
Distributed by	JAT Productions
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

This film was made entirely in the sandbox game Garry's Mod and pays homage to notable sketch comedy films like The Kentucky Fried Movie, Monty Python's And Now for Something Completely Different and The Meaning of Life.

Content

Sketched Shenanigans consists of 31 Sketches, mostly written by Toby Arrowsmith and Jack Bilsborough; despite being credited as one, Christopher Kershaw didn't write any of the sketches, although he did write his own solo sketch but that got removed.

Opening titles

Not listed as a sketch itself, the film opens with the iconic BBC spinning globe, an ident used back in 1960s-70s. A BBC Announcer announces that the following program has been rejected for theatrical release, but the BBC decided to show the program "as a last resort".

Sketches

Each sketch are listed in order they are on screen:

1. Court, 2024 (Part 1): In a court case, the defendant named Tobias (Toby Arrowsmith) is supposedly guilty of murdering 20 Puerto Ricans in Liberia and The Judge (Jack Bilsborough) instantly convicts them Guilty even though evidence has come in that he is innocent. However, it is actually revealed that the judge himself committed the crime and is trying to get the case dismissed before being dragged out by a British sheriff called Officer Harper Junior (Christopher Kershaw). At the end, it shows a picture of Harper with the text "In Memory of Officer Harper" who died "choking on a teabag".
2. An Office Block, 2020: In the middle of the COVID-19 outbreak, this specific office place doesn't close for lockdown so a majority of the workers have to come in. A worker called Phillip (Toby Arrowsmith) is extremely germophobic and levitates so he doesn't have to touch the ground. This causes a row between his co-workers, Joe (Jack Bilsborough) and Dan (Christopher Kershaw), as it makes their jobs harder.
3. Dad's Life Support, 2024: Officer Harper (Christopher Kershaw) is on his deathbed in a hospital, choking on a teabag, with his Doctor (Jack Bilsborough) and his son, Harper Junior, Jr. (Toby Arrowsmith). He is currently hooked up to a life support machine which makes his condition more stable. Though, during the discussion with the doctor, the son interrupts as he has to plug in his computer and asks if there is anywhere to plug it in. The doctor says no, as it is all for medical equipment, but the son spots a plug where his grandads life support is plugged and unplugs it, killing his dad, with the excuse being that he has to go live on Twitch to harvest sympathy followers. The doctor goes ballistic.
4. Weather Report, 2012: The Anchor-man (Toby Arrowsmith) switches the segment over to the Forecast Guy (Jack Bilsborough). This weather report seems normal until the weather forecast changes into death defying natural disasters that will result in the end of the world. It also shows a map of an area of the UK which gets completely wiped except for Birmingham. During the sketch, the weatherman seems to develop some sort of dementia. This sketch being an obvious reference to the 2012 phenomenon where supposedly, Mayans “predicted” the end of the world.
5. Its A Me Spectre (Directors Cut), 2022: James Bond (Jack Bilsborough) comes across his old foe, M.A.R.I.O (Toby Arrowsmith). However, Bond has severe dementia and doesn't remember who M.A.R.I.O is. M.A.R.I.O then tries to help him get his memory back by showing him Its A Me Spectre (on a very old TV) but then gives up. At the end, it then cuts back to the TV where it displays the text "The End, For Now..." until it abruptly cuts off, ending the sketch. (Its A Me Spectre was the first JAT film to be filmed entirely in Garry's Mod, which can be seen playing on the tv during the sketch).
6. Burger King, 2023: A Customer (Jack Bilsborough) comes into a Burger King and tries to order something but the BK Worker (Christopher Kershaw) tries to gaslight him and starts an argument.
7. Minecraft IRL, 2023: A group of friends, consisting of Steve (Christopher Kershaw), Jake (Toby Arrowsmith) and Jim (Jack Bilsborough), live in a house together and Steve is delusional and thinks Minecraft is real. He punches the walls saying he needs resources and shoots Jake with a bow and arrow for loot. Then he tries to do a water-bucket trick shot off the balcony off the apartment and dies.
8. Court, 2024 (Part 2): A continuation from Sketch 1, The Judge (Christopher Kershaw) and the defendant Axel (Toby Arrowsmith) go head to head but this time it's different. Axel pleads guilty to defecating on a group of handicapped minors in public, he just says yes to everything but very goofily because it is later found out he is doing Class A Drugs of which the Judge has no idea. The Judge does not believe him to be guilty because it is so bizarre. Axel is then released of all charges.

Cast and Characters

Cast

Each playing various characters:

• Toby Arrowsmith - Producer
• Jack Bilsborough - Director
• Christopher Kershaw

Characters

All the characters are under the actor that plays them:

Toby Arrowsmith

• Tobias, a defendant who is falsely accused of murdering 20 Puerto Ricans in Liberia. He is found not guilty.
• Phillip, an extreme germaphobe who levitates off the ground so he doesn't have to touch it.
• Harper Junior, Jr., the son of Harper Junior, Sr. who is a twitch streamer.
• The Anchor-man, an unnamed anchor-man whop works for G News.
• M.A.R.I.O, A SPECTRE agent who tracks down James Bond. Toby Arrowsmith previously played the character in Its A Me SPECTRE, which also plays during the Its A Me Spectre (Directors Cut) sketch.

Jack Bilsborough

• Judge from Sketch 1, an unnamed judge who killed 20 Puerto Ricans in Liberia and shifted the blame onto someone else. He is then later charged in Part 3 of the Court sketch. His character strongly resembles George Washington.
• Joe, a colleague of Phillip and Dan
• Doctor, Harper Junior, Sr.'s unnamed doctor. His character strongly resembles John Cleese's Q.
• Forecast Guy, an unnamed weatherman who works for G News.
• The Director, based on The Colonel, he is the director of the film who interrupts the film when he deems a sketch too silly or propagandist.

Christopher Kershaw

• Officer Harper Junior, Sr. , also known as "the British Sheriff", he is a cockney police officer who arrests Judge from Sketch 1. He dies after choking on a teabag in Sketch 3. His character strongly resembles Sheriff J.W. Pepper.

Characters not played by the cast/voiced by AI

Kim Il Sung (left) and Joseph Stalin (right), two historical totalitarian leaders are both parodied in this film. Kim even has a "quote" attributed to him at the beginning of the film, saying "This film is funnier than my people"

• BBC broadcaster
• President of the United Sates
• Joseph Stalin
• Kim Il Sung (archive footage)
• Korean Central Television broadcaster
• Walter White
• Jesse Pinkman

Production

The earliest this film was announced was on September 16th, 2023, when Jack Bilsborough, the director of the film, announced in a now deleted tweet that he and Toby Arrowsmith, the producer, were working on a new film project, without going into specifics. JAT Productions later quote tweeted, saying "This film appears to be rather sketchy".

On October 15th, 2023, the title of the film, Sketched Shenanigans, was announced with a tongue-in-cheek bio saying "The Movie where you think it's legal to watch but you realise that after watching, you'll need to seek a therapist. Yes, I know this bio doesn't make sense but neither does the movie!".

Out of the 31 sketches originally written for this film, only 29 made it in the film while 2 sketches had to be rewritten.

Novelisation

Sketched Shenanigans

The film was adapted into a book format with the sketches being rewritten to suit a novelisation format. This is the first JAT Publication of a novelisation of one of its films.