If you like off-the-wall humour then the comedy duo of Steve McNeil and Sam Pamphilon is for you.
Addicted to Danger is a sketch-based show, with brief fades to black and a blast of upbeat music efficiently separating the various skits. It’s like watching a TV sketch show on the stage but in McNeil and Pamphilon’s hands this is no bad thing: they’re a strong pairing with great comic timing and a natural chemistry that works to good effect.
As with all sketch shows, there’s a mix of hits and misses, but enough of the former to ensure that there’s something here for everyone, though probably more for those appreciative of topical, slightly surreal deadpan.
Winning sketches include a perverse take on the Antiques Roadshow; a slightly shocking but very funny skit called Cheeky Jesus; and an entertaining dissection of comedy songs – performed, of course, as a song. They’re a talented pair and so likeable that even potentially darker material – an Al Queda recruitment sketch and a brief flirtation with what constitutes a racist accent, for instance – comes across as light-hearted, harmless parody.
2008 Funny Women finalist Rachel Ann Stubbings joins them from time to time, casually wandering on from backstage. Her presence and almost grumpily deadpan contribution to the material feels a bit incongruous at first, but as the show goes on we warm to her, so that by the time the ‘threesome’ sketch comes round, she’s a welcome addition.
Odd, random and surreal, but entertaining enough to look forward to more next year.
3/5 
Lee McRonald
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