COMEDY

The hardest working comedians are the character comics. Whilst performing, every stand-up comedian is in character to some extent, as exaggerated versions of themselves. Milo McCabe, and his like, invent whole new personalities from scratch and then try and get funny with them.

In ‘Get Brown’, McCabe performs as four unique characters – taking part in a spoof daytime television chat show.

Philberto, the Portuguese warm up man, kicked off proceedings. McCabe has been performing as Philberto for years and the poor treatment this character receives tonight signposts the desire of McCabe to move on. Tyson Moon, son of 70’s Irish legendary comic Kenny Moon, was the first guest. Moon is as old school as his dad and the further McCabe pushed it – including some racist material – the funnier this character was.

The second guest was camp Liverpudlian, Anthony Sixsmith, the new age drummer. Ripping the proverbial out of bad science healing therapies is always good for a laugh, and here it was intelligently done, if not very sympathetically. Finally there was Australian, Nobbo Johnson, the ex football player turned culture commentator. Imagine David Beckham on NewsNight Review and you’re there.

The genius of McCabe is that each character is so unique, if they weren’t appearing in the same show, you might wonder if they were actually real.  The script was strong and there was plenty of audience interaction, with running gags gluing the whole thing together. All in all, a very funny and very satisfying hour.