Imagine a train wreck, or a crash car if you will, and how, as much as you don’t want to look, you can’t help but to fool yourself into keep watching? How, as much as you don’t really enjoy it, and you know you should close your eyes or leave, you just can’t seem to do so? Now imagine ‘Classic Entertainment’ is a car crash. There you go, you got the idea.
It’s not that Tom Verrall and Perrier Nominee (see, some pedigree there) Dan Skinner are not good, or they don’t know how to interact with the public, amuse them and entertain them. It’s just that the material they are working with is highly atrocious, utterly boring and not very funny. The show has that old school feeling, very embedded in the English heritage, of ‘Only Fools and Horses’, ‘Carry On’… or ‘Benny Hill’ only without the jokes. Their punch lines are blatantly obvious and non-inventive, the little acts they perform have been done before and their innuendo is less innuendo more on your face comedy.
There is some fun to be had though, and people who are tired of clever stand up, inventive theatre or jaw dropping dances will find some comfort in the banality and brainless humour of this pair. The rest of us need not apply.
1/5
Adrian G. Velazquez
