"Do your worse" Barber shop Skit

[Willace-the-Clown]

This skit was imspiered by one that a couple clowns did when i graduated fro clown class but i changed a few things.

Clown 1 Stands by a Chair & a sign that sez Barbor Shop Clown 2 walks in from off stage & sees the sign.

Clown 2: Hey, I would like a hair cut.

Clown 1: Ok take a seat & tell me what you will Like

Clown 2 has a seat in the chair

Clown 2: Do your worse

Clown 1: Ok ?

Clown 1 takes out over sized sissors & comb & pretends to cut hair moveing around clown two when he/she gets to the frount he/she slips a Ratty old wig on Clown 2 (one that has seen its better days is perfered) & then steps away & hold up a mirror & Clown 2 sees the horrid Job

Clown 2: OH MY! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!

Clown 1: I done my worse

Clown 1 is chased off stage by Clown 2

This has been rolling around in my head as a skit to do with my mom once she can join the COAI & our Alley. The idea came when she wore this bad Rainbow wig tot he hospital & when the clown that didn't give it to her said about it she said that she told the barbor to do his worse & he did. well thats it use it if you like it dont if you dont

[Ruby]

Barber Shop haircut sounds good. What about a quartet. I fit nicely for the one who sounds the worse. My kids used to stop crying to start laughing when I would try to sing to them. Lots of laughs.

[Fitzwilly]

Will, this is a great start for a clown skit. There are a couple of points that Karen Bell and other Ringling clowns emphasize when teaching about skit writing. One of them is that a skit needs a beginning a middle and an end. Your skit has that; a) the clown enters the barbershop, b) the haircut takes place, and c) "the blowoff" where the bad hairsut is revealed and the barber is chased off the stage. Another point is "the rule of three" and that means that there should be three sections to the middle of the skit. You might want to add just a little bit to the skit. Here is an idea to show you what I am talking about.
When the clown sits down the barber cuts a little bit and then stops and holds up a mirror but nobody sees a difference. "I said do your worst." So the barber cuts some more and this time some tufts of hair are tossed away. The barber steps back and holds up the mirror again but people still see no difference. Now the victim says "I SAID DO YOUR WORST!" Okay, the barber starts to cut again and this time great gobs of hair start flying and the skit finishes just as you wrote it.

[tim]

Originally Posted by Fitzwilly

Another point is "the rule of three" and that means that there should be three sections to the middle of the skit. You might want to add just a little bit to the skit. Here is an idea to show you what I am talking about.

When the clown sits down the barber cuts a little bit and then stops and holds up a mirror but nobody sees a difference. "I said do your worst." So the barber cuts some more and this time some tufts of hair are tossed away. The barber steps back and holds up the mirror again but people still see no difference. Now the victim says "I SAID DO YOUR WORST!" Okay, the barber starts to cut again and this time great gobs of hair start flying and the skit finishes just as you wrote it.

Perhaps, some play on worse/worser/worst would work.

B: "Welcome to the singing barber shop, sir! Please have a seat."

customer sits down, barber places an apron over him

B: "So what can I do for you?"

C: "I want you to do your worse!"

B: "Do my worse?"

C: "Yes. Do your worse!"

B: (confused), 'Alright!"

So, the first time he goes round cutting, something silly happens. Maybe the wild wig.

Barber: "You like?"

Customer: "No, that's no good!"

B: "That's no good?"

C: "That's no good!"

B: "I did my worse."

C: "No, no, no. Do your worser!"

B: "Do my worser?"

C: "Yes, you're worser."

they repeat the run around and the barber removes the wig

B: "You like?"

C: "What's this?"

B: "I did my worser."

C: "I look the same as did when coming in."

B: "As you were, sir!"

C: "AHHHH. No. No. No. Cut my hair!"

B: "Cut your hair?"

C: "Yes, I want a hair cut!"

B: "Alright. Just one?"

C: "All of them!"

B: "Cut all your hair?"

C: "Yes, of course! And do your worst!"

B: "Do my worst?"

C: "Your wonderful worst!"

B" "Yes, siree, sir... Lee!"

they repeat the haircut scherade. barber holds up a mirror

C: "I'M BALD!"

B: "I can't do any worse!"

chase off follows perhaps with the customer grabbing a pair of big comedy scissors and heading around the chair once or twice too


Ah, I know! This should be singing barber at his barbershop. And the customer talks with a heavy accent. "I vant you to do your verse! (worst)" "Your verser (verse, sir)!", "The verst! (the first). The scene should be signed "Singing Barber Shop" and the barber should be singing when the customer enters.