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John Madden's New Year's Resolution

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The setup

John Madden vows to give up the telestrator for the new year, then cannot stop scribbling all over the screen.

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In 2003, my New Year's resolution is no more drawing, just talking.

The premise

Here’s the bit.

Frank Caliendo's John Madden steps up to a podium in a rumpled suit and announces that his 2003 resolution is to stop drawing on the screen and simply talk. While he explains how he will merely say things, the doodles keep arriving anyway: a rainbow because he is happy, a martini glass, a stick-figure admirer and a rain of cash, until the whole frame is a mess of scribbles and he can only yell for it to stop.

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