Keith

**Keith**

Personal Information
Status
Alive

Residence
Dunglees

Occupation
Budget Analyst

Affiliation
The Nightly Show
Linda (Coworker)
 Duncan (Coworker)
 Biological Information

Identity
Male

Pronouns
He/Him
Age
41

**Keith** is a character in *Not For Broadcast*.

## Description

Keith is a part-time budget analyst, part-time aspiring artist, and all-times narcissist, whose entry titled 'Ravaged Earth' won second-place in the Nightly Show's 'Visions of the Future' competition.

## Personality

Keith is a vindictive man who hates his job and strongly opposes anyone and anything that wrongs him in even the slightest of ways. He takes solace in his work, mentioning that he'd be thriving 'in apocalypse better than sitting in a cubicle all day doing budgets', and considers it to serve as a sort of escapism and rebirth for him.

His personality rubs off on his art, as seen in the various stylistic choices he makes and the notes he writes in the margins. For example, Keith holds a hatred of domesticated animals, with the spikes drawn surrounding his image's gladiatorial arena stated as being carved from the bones of former family pets, of which he claims have been repurposed to defend 'like they should have when they were alive instead of shitting all over my front garden'. Similarly, he holds a hatred of overweight people, represented as an upcoming competitor to the gladiatorial arena drawn as a bulky fat man, of whom Keith taunts in the margins by writing 'fatty fatty, next to be eaten, where are you getting your food from fatty?'

Additionally, various qualities of his artwork are representative of his home/worklife, primarily based around a coworker named Linda, of whom he's protective over. The most prominent example is in the centre of the art piece, in which a man, assumed by Robyn Shorte as being Keith himself, rips off the head of another man and cries 'Come back to me Linda!!' Furthermore, he gives 'Ravaged Earth' a dark red background, noting that the sky's 'firey red death ball makes the sky blood like Thurs nights with Linda's parents'. In the margins, he also notes about another coworker named Duncan, and how he 'should have kept his hands and eyes to himself at office party with Linda', possibly representing him as either the competitor getting his head pulled off in the gladiatorial arena, or the 'dancing sexy cheerleader-man-whore' who Keith states 'stirs [the] crowd to death-throbbing shouts and screams to welcome the end of it all'.

## History

### Episode 3

#### Day 2602: The Finale

*Main article:* Day 2602: The Finale
Though Keith isn't seen directly, him and his artwork are mentioned during the broadcast's 'Visions of the Future' segment, in which his submitted entry to the competition, entitled 'Ravaged Earth', is revealed as winning the second-place runner-up spot. Upon being revealed, Robyn Shorte lists basic information about Keith, and comments that they were aiming the competition towards the show's younger viewers, but accepts his submission regardless.

Megan Wolfe discusses Keith's writing in the entry's margins, and what she describes as his 'really rather detailed notes', stating that, in his idea of the future, 'deprived of basic resources, society will resort to a brutal system of weekly battles to the death where only the victor may breed.' She adds that Keith writes, at the bottom of the piece, 'either that, or about the same, but maybe a bit worse.'

Robyn says that she really loves Keith's attention to detail, noting they can see a sort of gladiatorial arena, as well as what she can only assume is Keith himself pulling off an opponent's head and shouting 'Come back to me Linda!' She laughs, remarking that if he maybe spent more time outdoors and less time entering children's competitions, she might not have left. Megan comments that the entry is a special one, proceeding to reveal the competition's winner. Before she does so, she explains all of the runners-up will receive a day out at an inflatable Happy Land on an industrial estate just off the A-40, apologizing to Keith.

Keith is not mentioned at any further point in the broadcast, and 'Ravaged Earth' is presumably tossed into the trash alongside other submitted entries to the competition. However, the artwork may have instead ended up in one of the Studio's dressing rooms and later stolen to be given to Alex Winston, as implied by the 'Stolen Artwork' reward's description, though the canonical status of Rewards and the Challenge Room itself are ambiguous.