Pappy's Fun Club: Funergy

Live comedy can be hit or miss and this troop of sketch-inspired comedians are unbelievable. I believe they appeared on television about 6 months back and it didn't translate too well. If you did manage to catch that, please ignore it and go see them live. They were a massive hit at Edinburgh in 2008 and more recently i have seen them do their 'Funergy' show in Hammersmith, where they have built upon it and tidied it up. All the same it is still full of the frantic funergy and wacky sketches that make Pappy's Fun Club a unique and exhilerating show. Who are they? Well they are four twenty-something guys (Brendan, Tom, Matthew and Ben) who each bring ...  Read the complete review

Returning for their second successful year at the Edinburgh Fringe, the energetic whippersnappers of Pappy's Fun Club have cobbled together a new show of zany antics and quick-fire turnarounds, loosely held together by what they imagine to be an epic plot. If there's one show I'd recommend at the Edinburgh festival to appeal to audiences of various ages, tastes, creeds and orientations, it would be Pappy's Fun Club. Even if you hate it, you get a free badge at the end to decorate your jacket. This is the kind of performance I love to see at the Fringe, as the four performers dash around in an almost literal revolving door of characters, situations and abstract ...  Read the complete review