| 07 August 2011
A week of stand-up may be a brilliant way to spend your time, but wouldn’t it be even better if you could jazz up the Festival with more than just another Udderbelly Pasture pint? Well, maybe it’s time for you to moo-sey on along into the Cow Barn, where Sammy J and Randy are ready to revive you with a brand of humour so cleverly and sharply executed they could surely spin even the pishest puns into comic gold.
Ironically, that’s exactly what they do. It’s forty-five minutes into the show, and Sammy J and Randy seem convinced that a particularly pun-tastic scene is bombing. If only they could see the rows in front of me, in which almost every person can’t stop looking incredulously to his neighbor for reassurance that, yes, something this funny really is possible (in fact, someone vocalized a similar thought in the exact moment Sammy J and Randy thought they were tanking).
A personal standard set this high probably isn’t too fun for the performers but, as the rest of the audience agreed after the show, this was the scene that sealed the love deal. If anything, this moment of doubt, as well as the insanely amusing manner in which they carried on, enhanced every positive quality of an already outstanding show, and it should convince you of the duo’s exceptional comic capacity.
I feel compelled at this point to stress how irrefutably prepared Sammy J and Randy are to entertain an audience. In academia, courses typically must choose to either attempt to survey a wide range of topics or master a narrow chosen few. It is to my absolute delight, then, that Ricketts Lane proves you can not only take on seemingly every form of classic comedy, but you can also completely reinvigorate each. If you’re like pre-show me, you may be thinking an hour of a man and a purple puppet is a hard sell. It’s simple: you don’t know what you’re missing right now, but you really shouldn’t miss this show.
Sammy J and Randy: Ricketts Lane, Udderbelly’s Pasture, 6-29 Aug, 6 pm
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