The Roarings Boys are Jonathan Donahoe and Daniel Benoliel, back at the Fringe after their cult hit last year, this time they are here to tell you how they tried to blow up The One Show. Their reason is simple, The One Show provides nothing but mindless, mundane ‘entertainment’, giving viewers only moronic, mind numbing features that bear no relevance to anyone else’s lives.
The performance moves at a slick pace, never really allowing the audience to anticipate what comes next. The main narrative of Danny wanting to set off a bomb in The One Show’s studio is constructed smoothly by a brilliant relationship between the two friends on stage, the two bouncing off each other superbly even when they begin ad-libbing. The sub-plot of Jonny’s failed love life; in which a tall man named Robert has apparently caused a great deal of grief, enables the performance to suddenly divert in to caustic songs about the pain caused. This provides a hilarious break in proceedings, drawing the audience in, before throwing them back in to the plot of the main narrative.
By using physical and musical comedy, and involving the audience whenever possible, the Roaring Boys provide a show pitched at many levels, to keep you on your toes throughout. By the end they will more than likely have you on your feet, in a unified protest against the abomination that is The One Show.
4/5 
Sam Grinsted
(6 votes, average: 4.83 out of 5)
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