"From the Oval Office," a play

(THE SCENE: THE OFFICES OF BP, TVS BEING VIEWED)

CLIVE: Hey, Nigel, are you watching this?

NIGEL: Do you mean that silly boob, President Obama?

CLIVE: Yah, he just said that WE have to repay all those colonists for the money they've lost because some oil got spilled.

CLIVE & NIGEL: Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

NIGEL: Aren't those the people who took the country away from us originally?

(MORE LAUGHTER, WHICH HAS NOW SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE COMPLEX)

CLIVE: Well, it's theirs now.

NIGEL: How do you say "fuck you" in American. Oh, that IS American.

CLIVE: Wait a minute, now he's babbling about "alternative energy sources." Ooo, I'm scared; he won't be needing oil any more.

(GALES OF GUFFAWS)

NIGEL: He must have realized how silly that sounds because he just signed off. Shortest speech he ever gave. Must be his bedtime.

CEO TONY HAYWARD: Tea, Nigel?