Let’s say this first: an absolute delight.
Like some kind of oddball masterclass in how to make things funnier by knowingly breaking the expected methods of comedy construction – and acknowledging it as they did so – these two guys warped their many characters into a great big tapestry of silly. There was a plot – several, in fact – but it largely played the straight man to the ridiculous moment-by-moment interaction of faces, fingers, voices and postures that occasionally slipped off the beaten track, much to the performers’ own great amusement.
In a way this was smug, but the Pajama Men’s assurance with their craft made us feel like a valued part of their very private in-joke. This preview’s confused start (the venue technicians somehow finding a way to bugger up a show with no sound or light cues) added a frission of uncertainty to the beginning, but couldn’t ruin one of the cleverest, funniest things I’ve ever seen.
go/no-go? GO
