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Scotsman Reviewed by James Mullighan This sketch comedy outfit makes an Edinburgh debut, to the envy of its peers. From the opening in which Chester train staff give it some boy band, the audience was eating out of its collective hand. The male quintet’s hour is a confident whirlwind of tightly choreographed and visually stylised gaggery, although the sketches are too diverse to weave a thread through: Colonel Sanders facing off Little Chef, an unbelievably weird baby genius, and some overdue revenge-eking on that maddening Scouse Bible-bashing nutter in Oxford Circus. The troupe is packing a swag of about-to-crack-the-telly CVs. They are well-balanced, sporting two genuine "comedy" heads - Stephen Evans and Jordan Long - two matinee idol (sort of) straight men - Rufus Jones and Renton Skinner - and, somewhere in the middle, nicking most of the great lines and upstaging with Casiotone virtuosity, Jim Field Smith. From here, they need to sort the killer from the filler, and extrude and develop the sketches - where the sustained laughs are. Ones to watch. © The Scotsman Newspaper |