Brother + Dead Brother = Comedy Gold
Man Lives with Dead Brother for 18 Months
LONDON (Reuters) - A British retiree did not notice his brother had been dead for 18 months despite sharing a mobile home with him.
When Herbert Silver, 72, finally called police and told them his brother George, 75, had died, they went to the bachelors' home expecting to find a body. Instead they found a skeleton, British newspapers reported Thursday.
"I admit that I didn't go into his room for a few hours, a few days...well quite a while actually," Herbert Silver told the Daily Telegraph.
Silver said he had thought it a "bit odd" when his brother failed to emerge from his bedroom in the tiny home they shared in Blissford, southern England, but told the Daily Mirror:
"George liked to keep himself to himself, and to be honest so do I." A postmortem indicated George Silver had been dead for up to 18 months.
I don't know about you, but I smell a sitcom!
Get this premise: a crazy old man shares a mobile home with his dead older brother. We'll call it My Dead Brother. It is the perfect series to fill in one of the many holes the networks have been left with after canceling so many of their new fall shows. Fox even cancelled A Minute with Stan Hooper, the best new show to star Norm MacDonald this particular year. That show wasn't actually funny, but God damn it, Norm MacDonald was in it, so it should have stayed on the air. The man is really cool and also needs money. "Help," he must say, "No one pays to see my movies. Please, let me appear in something. I need work."
Anyway, I think My Dead Brother has the potential to become a big hit. Since the person and corpse the show is based on a real event in England, the show will have to be filmed in Britain to retain its distinct feel. To make sure it is popular with the British public, we will have the dead brother wear a dress or something. American audiences will be able to see this show on BBC America or on PBS, when they show that block of unfunny British comedies every Saturday.
I don't know anything more about what will happen in the show, or anything beyond the idea I already mentioned, but a premise like this can write itself. Imagine all the great laughs the viewers at home will have when they see some crazy old man going to the store with his brother who he doesn't know is dead. He can take is dead brother to all sorts of places: the park, the movies, the elementary school, the such and such. Hey, Hollywood managed to make a sequel to Weekend at Bernie's, and it has been so long since those movies came out, that the public must really be itching for more crazy dead body shenanigans and hijinks.
