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Happy Salad - The Footlights Spring Review
ADC Theatre, Cambridge, 10th March 2001
Gush, gush, gush. This is the first time I've seen the footlights in action, so
maybe after a while I'll get used them. It's just so ballsy to decide you're going to put on a whole
evening's worth of entertainment which consists entirely of sketches. Not a comic song, not a tired, catch-phrase-laden stocking
filler (so beloved of the big TV sketch shows) in sight. Nothing but nearly two hours of sketches. And how cock-sure do you have to be to be certain that a good
percentage of them are funny? Without even trying them out on an
audience?Very cock-sure
indeed.
Then again, when you're faced
with the task of living up to the footlights terrible, indelible
reputation for not being as good as it used to be, you probably
have the choices of coming out all guns blazing or simply running
away. Even if there was
such a point in the dim and distant past where Emma Thompson shared
the ADC stage with John Cleese, Peter Cook and Groucho Marx or whoever,
(and, erm, there wasn't) the current wearers of this comic albatross
have far from disgraced themselves.
My only complaint is that, even after forking out an extra quid
for the programme I have no way of matching the names to the faces
that I want to praise. So
I'll just have to talk about the sketches.
The supermarket assassination sketch and the James Bond Feng
Shui sketch were simply fantastic - I wanted to have written them.
The sketches parodying American psychobabble, although perhaps
more obvious were very well done (the idea of the word "cohesh"
as a verb had me still cackling when everybody else was on to the
next-but-one gag). And the slow-burn "Attack of the 200 ft Princess
Margaret" was a simple idea beautifully executed.
Finally - the only name in the programme which I could tie to a
face, Tim Key, gave the most assured and staggeringly funny
performance of all with his series of "Mike Blow" sketches.
"Here is my comic universe" he seemed to be saying,
"and I can unfold it at my own pace, without any worry about not
going for the laughs straight away, 'cos when I want you to laugh,
you'll wet yourselves. "
These
two hours turned me from a sceptic of the "They can't be as
funny as they used to be" school into a dedicated follower -
I'll be seeing everything they do from now on.
These are the confessions - such as they are of a non-drinking, monogamous, heterosexual, omnivore.
The Ginger Mumbly is a humorous and humourous, satirical, column. People who like this will probably like reading books.
They'll be interested in second hand books.
I also write about cafes - both in Brighton, where I now live and in Cambridge, where I used to live.
I spend a lot of my time in Cafes and have very strong opinions about what makes a good one.
And sometimes I write about travel, I like Paris, Berlin, Athens.
It's a secular, militantly agnostic site, so there probably isn't much point sending ads for religious organisations.
They will probably like reading authors like Hunter S. Thompson, P J O' Rourke, Saki, Mark Twain, James Thurber, Charlie Booker, Damon Runyan.
They might like TV shows like "The Thick of It", "The Mighty Boosh", "The Wire", "Arrested Development".
The might like films like "A life Aquatic", or "The Big Lebowski"