There's a heartfulness to the troupe of four and none of the comedy is particularly dark or cruel. There's satire, but much of the material treads upon safe ground. Theatrically, all four performers have a strength in physical theatre of the lips, teeth and tongue and several pieces pay homage to the marathon articulation skills of The Two Ronnies, as does the content. At times I actually felt I might be back in the seventies where comedy was heartful, not cruel, naughty but not offensive. The comedy aims to be fun, not cutting and the tiny audience was not nearly enough to help create the warm atmosphere needed to make a show like this work.

 

The  performers work seamlessly together on stage and pieces tend to be short., they did well keeping the very small audience entertained.

 

Much of the comedy aims at playing on words, using puns, adding comedy words to karaoke-sung songs, it is ften Radio4-esque comedy. They cram a log of material into the hour- both sketches and songs. The Gordon Ramsey sketch was particularly well done.

 

Too many of the shorter jokes and one-liners were old and borrowed and this doesn't serve the show well. I can imagine a lot of the audience for stand-up not liking this material, finding it too safe and not nearly original enough. With the talent they have, they should seek out more original material, less groan-inducing.

 

"Mums off to Iceland - I wouldn't bank on it." They need to do better than that. And often they do, in a sketch show that probably has its own following of people who enjoy a good laugh that isn't based on cruel or harsh comedy material.