Missing Hen

Vote for the next sketch

noreply@blogger.com (missinghen) — Sat, 4 Jun 2011 09:40:00 +0100

Okay, so I'm finding it a bit difficult to get started on making new video sketches. Which would you like me to focus on first:

1) A sketch abut birdwatching?
2) A sketch set in the gallery of the Doctor Who TV studio in 1963?
3) A sketch about supermarket checkouts?
4) Re-open nominations.

Comments here please, or on the Facebook page or on Twitter @missinghen

Our new podcast - An Ear on the Wall

noreply@blogger.com (missinghen) — Mon, 9 May 2011 22:45:00 +0100

Tonight sees the start of our new podcast, An Ear on the Wall.

In this episode, we join Phil and Nigel as community radio station Excalibur FM profiles the people of Hunter's House Hotel in Effam. From the manager to the chef, you're assured of a warm welcome. Just make sure it doesn't get too warm...

You can listen to the podcast through the player below, or visit our podcast hosts to download or subscribe.

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Sketch - Minor Demons

noreply@blogger.com (missinghen) — Sat, 6 Nov 2010 14:46:00 GMT

Our Halloween season of sketches reaches its climax as Satan addresses a news conference. Some minor demons have become trapped. Oh dear.

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Seance sketch

noreply@blogger.com (missinghen) — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 23:08:00 +0100

Be careful when you contact the spirit world, as our Halloween countdown continues.

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TV Licence Inspector

noreply@blogger.com (missinghen) — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 22:17:00 +0100

Our Halloween countdown continues with this scary sketch.

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Sketch - Tick or Teat

noreply@blogger.com (missinghen) — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:20:00 +0100

Do you want Tick or Teat? You're stood on the doorstep, so you decide, as Missing Hen begins the countdown to Halloween.

See the sketch here on YouTube, here on Blip.TV, join our Facebook page for sketches and behind the scenes material or subscribe through iTunes to have every sketch we're going to do knock annoyingly on the door of your iPod week by week.

Sketch - The Invention of Lightbulbs

noreply@blogger.com (missinghen) — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 21:54:00 +0100

Thomas Edison invents the lightbulb.

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mementoo do you think you are?

noreply@blogger.com (missinghen) — Fri, 1 Oct 2010 19:55:00 +0100

Leonard Shelby attempts to trace his family.

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Bloopers 2010

noreply@blogger.com (missinghen) — Fri, 1 Oct 2010 19:49:00 +0100

Yes, we're not perfect. So here are some of our recent mistakes.

See the bloopers here on Blip.TV, join our Facebook page for sketches and behind the scenes material or subscribe through iTunes to have every sketch we're going to do float out of your iPod week by week, like a big mistake.

Sketch - Space Pranks

noreply@blogger.com (missinghen) — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 18:30:00 +0100

Don't misbehave on the International Space Station. You naughty space people.

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Sketch - Phone Genie

noreply@blogger.com (missinghen) — Mon, 6 Sep 2010 13:15:00 +0100

There's a Genie trapped in this phone. Release him and you'll get... well, you'll find out.

See the sketch here on YouTube, here on Blip.TV, join our Facebook page for sketches and behind the scenes material or subscribe through iTunes to have every sketch we're going to do float out of your iPod week by week, like a crazy genie.

Monochrome TV doctor social networking sketch

noreply@blogger.com (missinghen) — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:43:00 +0100

Yes, they had social networking in the past. Get over it.

See the sketch here on YouTube, here on Blip.TV, join our Facebook page for sketches and behind the scenes material or subscribe through iTunes to have every sketch we're going to do drop into your iPod week by week, like a repeat prescription.

Every sketch we've ever done

noreply@blogger.com (missinghen) — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:21:00 +0100

Yes, in shameless attempt to encourage you to take a look at the archive through the show player at www.missinghen.co.uk, Phil shows you how young we all used to look in a compilation of clips from every sketch we've ever done, in order.

See the sketch here on YouTube, here on Blip.TV, join our Facebook page for sketches and behind the scenes material or subscribe through iTunes to have every sketch we're going to do drop into your iPod week by week, like some mad part-work.

I'd also like to thank the US comedy group These People, who gave me the idea for doing a compilation of every sketch we've ever done, and believed me when I said it was a tribute to their Every Sketch sketch, and not a rip-off.

Sketch - So it's not an iPad...

noreply@blogger.com (missinghen) — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:30:00 +0100

Happy birthday! Okay, so it's not an iPad, but...

Our latest sketch guest stars Jo Cummins and Ben Fuller.

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Sketch - Selling time travel on the doorstep

noreply@blogger.com (missinghen) — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:45:00 +0100

Who's that knocking on the front door? Do you have time to answer?

See the sketch here on YouTube, here on Blip.TV, join our Facebook page for sketches and behind the scenes material or subscribe through iTunes to have a constant flow of sketches knocking on the front door of your iPod.

Sketch - Death Star insurance claim

noreply@blogger.com (missinghen) — Tue, 3 Aug 2010 21:24:00 +0100

That's the second Death Star they've lost. Better call the insurers.

This sketch was written collectively through comments on our Facebook page, so thanks to Richard Gnosill, Stefan Sawynok, Pete Foltz, Simon Meddings and Brock Lagan.

See the sketch here on Blip.tv, here on YouTube, join our Facebook group for sketches and extra behind the scenes stuff, or subscribe via iTunes for an automatic flow of sketches to your computer or mobile viewing device, like it's coming from some call centre or something.

Sketch - Kindred of Glack

noreply@blogger.com (missinghen) — Tue, 3 Aug 2010 09:28:00 +0100

I rushed away on holiday last week, so forgot to upload this to the blog (but it was on Facebook, YouTube, iTunes and blip.tv so don't shout at me).

It's a quickie, featuring our guest star Richard Gnosill as Mike Ledgewood, Kindred of Glack.

Sketch - Pottery in the kitchen

noreply@blogger.com (missinghen) — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:57:00 +0100

How do you get young people interested in pottery? A bit of quick editing and a beat should do it. Meds demonstrates how he does pottery on the cheap.

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Sketch - Pirates

noreply@blogger.com (missinghen) — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:01:00 +0100

Pirates go looking for buried treasure. It's what they like to do.

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Sketch - New satnav, new danger

noreply@blogger.com (missinghen) — Thu, 8 Jul 2010 00:02:00 +0100

A new sketch, warning you to beware of some of the more exotic locations on your satnav.

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Sketch - Mastermind (with a crying baby)

noreply@blogger.com (missinghen) — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:26:00 +0100

You may have done well at your specialist subject, but how will you cope up against the crying baby? Extra joke for Latin scholars: Matermind. Sorry, Latin scholars.

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Thanks to Natalie at pdsounds for the baby sound effects.

Sketch - Got a job on the Death Star

noreply@blogger.com (missinghen) — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 19:52:00 +0100

A Star Wars sketch, in which a new job offer may not be as good as it first sounds. Missing Hen looks at the perils of working for the Empire.

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Arts and Crafts

noreply@blogger.com (missinghen) — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:01:00 +0100

We're back from a bit of a break, as Missing Hen looks at arts, crafts, hotel rooms, philanthropy with Bruce Wayne and a topical gag. Yes, a topical gag. Sort of.

See the sketches http://blip.tv/file/3754337, or here on YouTube, or here on Facebook.

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It's called the Death Star...

noreply@blogger.com (missinghen) — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:09:00 +0100

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A busy week of filming so far. At the start of the week we buried Simon alive in a coffin with an iphone and a fake moustache. We allowed enough time at the end of filming to dig him up again. It's in his rider.

And then tonight Phil and Peter got together to film a sketch set a long time ago, in a beer garden far, far away. While surrounded by cats. Who won't make it into the sketch. And the noise of planes overhead - looks like we missed the volcano window there.

We'll be editing all this and more for a set of sketches coming some time in late April/early May.

Estate Agent Hell

noreply@blogger.com (missinghen) — Sun, 4 Apr 2010 21:21:00 +0100

Who'd have thought that buying a house could be on of the most terrifying experiences of your life? Phil from Missing Hen introduces this sketch that we shot in 2006, but only just finished.

You can watch the sketch at blip.tv, YouTube, on Facebook, or subscribe to our iTunes feed or our Facebook fanpage.