I don't know where I'll find the right group for this, so I'll post it in my AS blog, just because my reaction to it is probably a little strange. I found the dialogue to be absolutely hilarious. Which is good, because I saw it on the news at my parents' place and the previous item - an outbreak of Legionnaire's Disease in Gorgie (which is where I live) was a little sobering.
Anyway, it's not the item itself that was funny. It was specifically the quote of Stuart Morris. Sometimes Scottish people have an absolute gift for understatement and when he said "Whit're ye daein'?" I nearly choked. Like he was having a reasonable, civilised debate with the woman who has just hit him with her car and is taking him on a high-speed tour of Falkirk. For hours afterward, every time I remembered the way he spoke, I started sniggering all over again. He had a strong, regionalised accent - the sort of accent that can make a person sound stupid sometimes, even if he's actually pretty intelligent. In fact, I suspect that Stuart Morris probably is intelligent. But he definitely sounded like a bit of a bumper. And, for comedy value, you might want to enunciate the word "bumper" in exactly the same was as he did. It's not big and it's not clever, but it's definitely funny.
By the way... to all those who might be concerned about my health... I'm not within inhalation distance of any of the cooling towers responsible for the outbreak, so I'm not in any danger of contracting Legionnaire's Disease myself. I just thought I'd throw that in to set your minds at ease. I know you all worry about me.
