Skit/song description: An announcer at a Christian radio station opens the phone lines to give his listeners an opportunity to share their testimony. His emotional state comically deteriorates as the calls instead become a testimony to defeat and trouble!

Drawing upon our background as gospel radio announcers, this skit/song is particularly realistic. When doing a live call-in show, you never know what the caller will say. In the case of testimonies, they can get side-tracked easily into publicly-aired complaints disguised as prayer requests, and it snowballs into a litany of woe. Who gets the glory from this? Not the Lord!

This was our first skit/song released to Southern gospel radio, and it certainly got their attention! We had great response to it, as it was the first of it's kind, a song/skit hybrid. As we began to get requests for soundtracks, we realised the need for a CD like the one we use to perform it live. It is an extended version of the song to allow for greater freedom to act it out, with several versions for your performance choices; Music with caller voices and singing, music with no call-in voices but with singing, music with no call-in voices or singing. The CD also includes the complete album version for comparison and reference.

By using Version 1, (music with caller voices and singing) a single person can do the entire skit by interacting with the pre-recorded callers.

With Version 2, (music with no call-in voices but with singing) you can use up to 7 people; one as the DJ, with 6 people either off-stage on mic, or on the other side of the stage on a telephone, calling in.

With Version 3, (music with no call-in voices or singing) you use your 7 live actors, plus a number of singers (2 or 3) to perform the chorus.

(Before reading the script, please note once again: this particular skit is a song/skit hybrid. That is, it contains both elements of a song, with music and lyrics, and a skit, with dialogue and actions. This script is written with all of the elements included, dialogue and lyrics, with the intention of it being used with the recorded soundtrack provided. We strongly suggest you send for the soundtrack if you intend on performing it, since it will greatly enhance the humor, not to mention professionalism, of your performance. If you still intend on performing it without the soundtrack, but straight voice only, you will need to cross out the lyrics so as not to confuse your actors.)

Click here to read and download the script!

Click the play button on the audio player below to hear a Windows Media file of "Testimony Show," as it sounds on the Prime Example album, "Comedy Skits and Songs," available for ordering on the Comedy CDs page. (This CD is for listening to only. You will need the Soudntrack CD to perform it.)