Brighton Fringe: Max and Ivan Televisionaries
Our first Fringe performance for us and a really funny one at that. The Malborough Little Theatre was the humble venue which drew a small but appreciative crowd. The comedy duo really deserved a big audience and a bigger set production as I predict bigger things for them in future.
Their show was an hour of short sketches each with a television theme. Each costume change and scene was like flicking through late night TV with 3 or 4 longer set pieces and dozens of quick fire sketches against a projected screen of animated drawings.
Some of the highlights were the literal sense of Sky Sports, their quick and probably slightly deserved dig at Horne and Corden's BBC3 show and all of their songs were spot on for wit and their upto the minute topical referencing like their Credit Crunk (see below).
For us though, their masterpiece was the Mario Brothers meets Martin Scorsese direction sketch which twisted all the right Italian plumber character references into a tense mob style drama with voice-overs. "It's all in the bricks!".
Their 'Lads mag boys going on a package holiday' crossed with a Broadway showstopper was the last number and again their lyrics won us over as well as the mock tap dancing. Hilarious.
Best of luck for Edinburgh Max and Ivan (pronounced Ih-van).
We never found out who won the cloud race.
Their show was an hour of short sketches each with a television theme. Each costume change and scene was like flicking through late night TV with 3 or 4 longer set pieces and dozens of quick fire sketches against a projected screen of animated drawings.
Some of the highlights were the literal sense of Sky Sports, their quick and probably slightly deserved dig at Horne and Corden's BBC3 show and all of their songs were spot on for wit and their upto the minute topical referencing like their Credit Crunk (see below).
For us though, their masterpiece was the Mario Brothers meets Martin Scorsese direction sketch which twisted all the right Italian plumber character references into a tense mob style drama with voice-overs. "It's all in the bricks!".
Their 'Lads mag boys going on a package holiday' crossed with a Broadway showstopper was the last number and again their lyrics won us over as well as the mock tap dancing. Hilarious.
Best of luck for Edinburgh Max and Ivan (pronounced Ih-van).
We never found out who won the cloud race.
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