Every script
33 of them, by occasion. Each one has its own page, and every pack has a free sample to read first.
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Best Man & Wedding
- The Classic Roast — “has owned the same gym shoes since 2014 and refers to them, out loud, as 'broken in.'”
- Short and Warm — “the guy who showed up at my apartment the week my dad died with groceries and didn't make me talk.”
- The Nervous Speaker — “I practiced this in my car nineteen times, and I want you all to know that in the car, this killed.”
- The Second Marriage — “I wanted him to be bitter with me. He wouldn't do it.”
- Co-Best-Men — “He could. He chose me. He added you later.”
Relationships
- Meeting People — “That's not a solution. That's the problem, scaled.”
- Early Dating — “We invented a system where the correct move is to make the person you like feel worse. On purpose.”
- Cohabiting — “You don't really know a person until you've folded a fitted sheet with them.”
- The Long Haul — “'Fine' has nine meanings. 'Sure' has four. 'Do what you want' has one meaning and it is do not do what you want.”
- The Breakup Set — “There is a specific pain to deciding who keeps the streaming account”
- His Mother — “Everything he does that you thought was a quirk — she does it. In front of you. In the original.”
Work & Retirement
- The Retirement Send-Off — “when he started, the company's entire backup system was a guy named Dennis who wrote things down.”
- The Team Roast — “the agenda has, on multiple occasions, been longer than the meeting.”
- The Short Farewell — “In four years I never once asked him a question and got made to feel stupid for asking.”
- The Promotion — “eat a full lunch standing over the sink in the break room. Repeatedly. As a lifestyle.”
- The Difficult Exit — “I'm not going to pretend this is a normal send-off, because everyone in this room knows it isn't.”
- The Chair — “New people have tried the chair. They come back looking betrayed.”
- 34 Years — “There are people in this room who had not been born when he started. Two of them report to him.”
Milestone Birthday
- The Classic Roast — “Last month he told me — unprompted, with genuine excitement — about a mattress.”
- The 40th (Still Denying It) — “Nobody who thinks forty isn't a thing says it eleven times.”
- The 60th (Earned It) — “a stamp cost five cents and nobody had ever seen the far side of the moon.”
- The Surprise Party — “That's love. That's what it looks like. It's inconsiderate.”
- "They Said No Fuss" — “I've never heard him say a single word about himself that wasn't factual.”
- The Knees — “There's a noise on the third step. Every time. The same step.”
- One Glass — “One. Glass. He had it at seven. He was apologising by nine.”
- "We Were Worried" — “he has just bought a motorcycle and has never once mentioned wanting a motorcycle”
After Dark
- The Lies We Agree On — “Marriage is a mutual non-aggression pact about statistics.”
- Long-Term Logistics — “Fifteen minutes before. That's the notification.”
- The Body Betrays You — “And your partner heard it. And they say nothing. That's the deal. That's the real vow.”
- Bachelor / Bachelorette — “It's like a fire drill for regret.”
- The Late Slot — “Half of you are here because your ride is in the bathroom.”
- "We Tried" — “Two words, said flatly, usually while looking at something else entirely. That is the complete report.”
- Pillow Talk — “Nobody has ever said 'can I ask you something' at midnight and followed it with something that improved my life.”