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We Are Klang | Comedy review

Source: The Guardian

Nov 06, 2009

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Bloomsbury Theatre, London

A man being teased about his small penis. Jokes about the disabled. A song asking what it's like to be a Jew. And this is just the first scene of last night's gig by three-man sketch team We Are Klang. Mind you, the show was billed as being "Live and Uncu*t", so no one can say they didn't see it coming.

This Bloomsbury Theatre performance was staged for the trio's first DVD recording, and comes fast on the heels of their self-titled BBC3 sitcom. But live comedy fans haven't seen much of Greg Davies, Marek Larwood and Steve Hall since their if.comedy nod in Edinburgh in 2006. Back then, they won acclaim for their puerile anarchism – the sweaty, mutually abusive and liberatingly silly nature of their three-man comic floorshow. Those qualities are present and incorrect again here, but in more uneasy proportions. The show is still like attending a delinquent children's party – but their juvenile obsessions with spunk, the anus and genitals made me want to grab my slice of cake and go home to my mummy.

Actually, it wasn't a problem in that

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