Assembly George Square: Bosco Until Aug 26 (excluding Aug 12) Four Stars
Some call them the boy band of comedy but, although they’ve got the looks to pull it off, you can’t help but think these four guys would rather be on the West End stage than in the pop charts. Music is the fuel that fires this turbo-charged show, either as pastiche of existing songs or as an audio slice‘n’dice of pop’s greatest hits.
Two stand-out routines in the sketch-show format tick either box. An extended opening skit, in which the soundtrack to Les Miserables becomes a pinpoint skewering of supermarket culture, sets the barrier high; later, a Bond movie plot, spliced together from tiny clips of everything from Take That’s Rule The World to Bon Jovi’s You Give Love A Bad Name, throws a spotlight on all the 007 cliches.
These sections are so good that the Disney song climax comes over as a bit seen-that-done-that-heard-it-already, but the speed in which they go from start to finish leaves other comedy troupes sucking up their exhaust fumes.
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