Giant Killer
1985
Giant Killer - 1985
Giant Killer is an original Ken Bradbury comic sketch — a two-character retelling of David and Goliath as a baseball story. Samuel Prophet, a scout for the Angels who speaks throughout in a Yiddish accent, recruits twelve-year-old David — Jesse's boy, a young pitcher — to take the mound in the final game of the World Series against the Giants and their fearsome slugger, Goliath. David doubts himself until a phone call to "the Boss" (YAHWEH 777) and two miraculous practice pitches convince him; when Goliath taunts his father and family, David resolves to face the Giant: "I'm gonna get me a Giant!"
The script is published and available to license — buy it here.
Cast
- David — Jesse's twelve-year-old son, a young pitcher
- Samuel (Samuel Prophet, "Sam") — an older Angels scout with a Yiddish accent
Production Notes
A two-character comic sketch (a "two-hander"): the only speaking roles are David and Samuel. It is an original Ken Bradbury script of roughly 150 lines, retelling the David and Goliath story in modern baseball terms — David is a 12-year-old pitcher, Samuel Prophet is a baseball scout for the Angels, Goliath is the Giants' star home-run hitter, and Jesse is David's dad and team coach. Samuel speaks throughout in a Yiddish accent ("I been vatching da whole game. You got some arm, kid."). Running gags include "Holy cow!" / "Rock and fire!"; David reaching "the Boss" by asking the operator for "YAHWEH 777" on a cell phone; David being knocked flat by his own fastball; a knuckleball that flies around the room; and Samuel's "limousine vot just flies" set against mom's minivan. The sketch is studded with 1990s pop-culture references — ESPN, a Wheaties box, and a deodorant commercial — with Goliath cast as the Giants' slugger about to break the home-run record. The title page reads "Giant Killer / By Ken Bradbury," establishing Ken as the author; the original Consortium script file is dated 1999.
The performance video is a raw camcorder recording of a live stage/gymnasium performance with a burned-in timecode and no title or credit cards, so no actor names are recoverable from it.