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It wasn't a massive audience so the start took a bit of time to take off, but they're really, um, sweet, or something, and massively enthusiastic, and pulled everyone in, and it was, indeed, hugely fun. A nice mixture of short clever and silly snippets (like the human game of Guess Who or the "things we can't do" bit) and a second half with a sort-of throughline, involving the need to save the planet and the ex-greatest stuntman in the world.
Hmmm, memorable parts? A lot of lo-fi handmade costumes and props: a sketch pitting a wise old owl against the internet where the owl was made with a jumper and some washing-up gloves and the internet was a half-naked man with clingfilm wound round himself - "It was supposed to be foil, but you know how similar the boxes look, and now the others won't let me change it"- and a keyboard and mouse lassoed to each shoulder, or a dueling cities sketch where the cities consisted of maps sellotaped to t-shirts (I squeaked with glee at the dissing of Derby, but then I would).
This clip is a sketch they did this time- except that Tom's costume was more of a crumpled sheet, also he was pissing about "juggling" the apple. (He seems to be the Designated Fulcher [1] of the group- in one of the later sketches, as the front half of a pantomime whale, he went off an a massive rant about Youtube commenters for about five minutes that had the others corpsing like mad. The back half of the whale coped nicely, waving its tail in a dejected manner from time to time.)
(Want more Youtubery?)
And by the magic of editing...A Twitter gig from June.

Some of my notes that give quite a decent flavour of the evening:
Man trapped in a musical
Lineup: A man with his shirt inside out, an oak tree, Mother Earth in a tutu, man with a cut-out flower stuck to his stomach
History lesson- Plague, fire, licking ear



Short version: Loved it.

Ross Noble (Things tour)
You know how Ross Noble is? Stream-of-consciousness mentalness until you can't breathe from laughing? Like that.

What Would Axl Rose Do? (run about pointlessly)
Peripherals/profiteroles confusion- leading to Stevie Wonder looking for profiteroles
Ranting at old people in the cinema, who got smaller and smaller until he was kneeling on the floor shouting at them
An audience member who was worried he'd tire himself out; this one ran and ran
A three-way pun thing on Ho's restaurant/hoes/pantyhose (Which nobody got on account of they're called tights over here. But I knew, ahaha.)
How good it would be if Boba Fett's mask was a cuckoo clock

Also, my internal monologue sounded Geordie for a good couple of hours after coming out.

[1] No, with a U. Jeez. As in Rich "Script, what script" Fulcher.

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