Pappy's Fun Club
At first glance, you’d think Pappy’s Fun Club are going to be awful. Four studenty comedians who put on a series of ramshackle skits about wacky subjects like which is a better source of information, an owl or the internet, I can’t think of anything worse. Yet, for some reason, it works very well. In lieu of an intelligent review, I thought I might list some reasons as to why this could be.
All the members of Pappy’s Fun Club are endearingly geeky. There is nothing threatening or confrontational about them. It is nice to have comedy with a bit of humility, if only to negate the arrogance of people like Ricky Gervais and Jimmy Carr.
The skits and sketches are really lo-fi and kooky, which means that they are “cool” and independent.
The adlibs are as funny as the scripted material.
There is great dynamic between the four of them — they are like Hot Chip or the Spice Girls, with each Pappy fulfilling a different role.
Like Flight of the Conchords, they make great use of amusing rhymes in their musical numbers.
Recurring motifs don’t feel crowbarred in.
Matthew Crosby looks a lot like a young Woody Allen — his devious little grin is funny in itself.
Hopefully if they go to Edinburgh this year they will find a way of expanding the scope of their show. A musical would be nice.