Comedy always works best when you have a full, captive, and hopefully laughing crowd in front of you. So it is no mean feat to perform an hour of sketch comedy in front of four people, one of whom may be (definitely is…) highly intoxicated, and another who it actually turns out to be part of the act.
But despite low numbers, Joe Ross-Williams and Michael Love give all their energy to their latest work and pull it off with moderate success. For the first half of the performance, the ‘jolly’ audience member was the most entertaining thing as Love seemed to trip over his words a little too much and Ross-Williams attempted to drown out the noises from the second row with his enthusiasm.
This is clearly a show that needs polishing up, but the beauty of sketch comedy is that if you don’t particularly like what you’re watching, all you have to do is wait a minute and everyone will have moved on to the next subject.
Only in one sketch did I struggle to find the humour in the price of cola, but the rest of the performance kept me chuckling to varying degrees throughout.
Ross-Williams comes off as the far more confident of the two on stage. His delivery and flow only interrupted by a trip from Love, or a shout from our fellow audience member. However, as the hour moved on, Love did seem to find his rhythm and in fact garnered the biggest laughs as various foreign characters hailing from Mexico to Wales.
With some tightening up of the dialogue, and perhaps the exit of one or two of the sketches, this show definitely has the potential to keep audiences laughing. As long as there is an audience there to laugh…