REVIEW: Clusterf**k

Comedy Society unleashed their explosive one-off show Clusterf**k upon an unsuspecting audience largely comprised of election candidates and their campaign teams.

They were witness to a tour de force of scripted sketches and witty improvisation, satirising everyone from Brian Cox to Judas Iscariot and sending up SUSU in the process.

Okay, so a couple of gags fell a bit flat but overall the crowd lapped up joke after joke from the cast. If Robo Thatcher perhaps wasn’t that funny we were soon in stitches at the coffee shop serving dictator themed drinks and the arguments between Odysseus and Achilles over whether to hide in a horse or “an eagle with flapping wings and light-up eyes.”

Much of the show addressed the recent debate over gay marriage, with sketches featuring a straight teenager coming out to his two dads and a gay couple unhappy at the newly written Bible, also a segment simply entitled “the gays” in which every punchline was “Well I am gay!” Perhaps this was slightly overdone but for me it was the funniest of their material, making up for the few slightly weak sketches like the Doctor and Robo Thatcher.

A particular highlight was provided by Jed Marshall and Liam Webber, a sketch with Facebook personified as a needy friend constantly asking “What’s going on?” and “How are you feeling?” and getting stroppy when talk turned to hashtags and Twitter. Other hilarious moments included Tom Hunt’s Brian Cox impersonation while introducing the solar system (Uranus jokes were inevitable) and the eerily accurate SUSU meeting sketch where the only decision made was to add another hash brown to the cafe breakfast.

Towards the end the assembled SUSU candidates were summoned to the stage only for Joe Hart to order them to explain a manifesto point with him filling in every other word. In the spirit of the evening, Josh Cox simply had to state his surname to get Hart laughing, a clear winner under tough circumstances.

All too soon came the finale, with The Tab itself suddenly the target of jokes. Everyone, us included, laughed until we hurt at Comedy Society marching across the stage in Guy Fawkes masks beneath the banner pictured, suggesting some sort of vendetta. If these comedians had taken our previous review slightly personally, clearly it has only spurred them on to greater things.

All in all, Clusterf**k was a fantastic night with overall very strong material. I can’t wait to see what Comedy Society come up with next.