Just for a moment when Ben, Matthew and Tom bounced on to the stage waving, it could have been The Wiggles, such is the upbeat enthusiasm with which they perform. But only for a moment. The Most Inept Censor sketch immediately set the tone for the surreal mayhem to follow – proving that it really is the way you say something that makes it funny rather than offensive.
The sketches ranged from the over-the-top singing Vampire-Rabbi and Were-Priest to the audience participation Choose Your Own Adventure, and from the physically impressive Computer Hakka to the schoolboy silliness of a Bears vs Marsupials War, in which the koala turns out to be the turncoat. There wasn’t a lame sketch among them: they were all original, clever and, most importantly, funny.
The costumes and props were handmade and all the better for it, merely adding to the general daftness, and the three sparked off each other brilliantly between sketches – and sometimes within sketches – improvising as the comedy took off on its own and couldn’t be contained.
They did admit that as a new show it was “a little rough around the edges” but, apart from a slightly confused ending, it was hard to see where and no one cared anyway, they were too busy laughing. Even a bottle of water accidently knocked into the lap of a man at the front immediately became part of the show.
The obvious joy Pappy’s get out of their work and the positivity they generate created a great, fun-filled, belly-laughing, feelgood evening.
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