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Small Aubergine Wedding
SKETCH-O-VISION
A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.
The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
A nervous bride-to-be and her father welcome her fiancé and his mother to discuss the wedding. The prospective mother-in-law turns out to be the thrift-obsessed Mrs "I Can Make It At Home": she proposes holding the ceremony at home, offers a bridal sari still owed by a living relative, plans to cater everything with her trademark aubergine and produces a homemade sock-puppet priest. When the appalled father objects, she raises the matter of a dowry, and her grand demand turns out to be just one small aubergine.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 4
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
Why waste money when you can make it at home for nothing?
No, I will be making the traditional wedding aubergine.
The dowry we expect from you... one small aubergine.
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.
Sharat Sardana
Writer
Credited writer of Series 3 Episode 2 (British Comedy Guide); no sketch-level writer is published.
Richard Pinto
Writer
Credited writer of Series 3 Episode 2 (British Comedy Guide); no sketch-level writer is published.
Sanjeev Bhaskar
Writer
Credited writer of Series 3 Episode 2 (British Comedy Guide); no sketch-level writer is published.
Meera Syal
Writer
Credited writer of Series 3 Episode 2 (British Comedy Guide); no sketch-level writer is published.
Anil Gupta
Writer
Additional material for Series 3 Episode 2 (British Comedy Guide); no sketch-level writer is published.
Sanjeev Kohli
Writer
Additional material for Series 3 Episode 2 (British Comedy Guide); no sketch-level writer is published.
Nina Wadia
Writer
Additional material for Series 3 Episode 2 (British Comedy Guide); no sketch-level writer is published.
Nick Wood
Director
One of two credited directors of Series 3 Episode 2 (British Comedy Guide); the segment's director is not specified.
Christine Gernon
Director
One of two credited directors of Series 3 Episode 2 (British Comedy Guide); the segment's director is not specified.
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
Wikipedia notes that Nina Wadia based Mrs "I can make it at home for nothing!" on her own mother.
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