Character Description

Cosmo is your classic oddball detective, as kooky as Ace Ventura, as inept as Inspector Clouseau, but with his own brand of crazy. His social graces are lacking, he’s a magnet for especially unattractive women, and he listens to Weird Al in his car (in fact, he is a Weird Al junkie). His prominent quirk is that he struggles with the word “foresight,” and is always confusing it with similar words such as “foreplay,” “foreskin,” and “forecast.” This makes for some awkward and often hilarious slip-ups.

Scene Context

This snippet was taken from an idea for an absurdist comedy.

Cosmo Mallet, oddball and clumsy wisecracker, is paired with the highly polished, straight-laced Stuart Jepsen. Together, they must catch a serial killer who targets the elderly. The ruckus at the department store is centered around the murder of an elderly night watchman, the latest victim of the elusive antagonist. In the absurd world of the story, the police department is selling tickets to shoppers and allowing them to see the crime scene, which is why there’s so many people hanging around when Cosmo and Stuart show up.