It is nearly 22 years since the Comedy Store Players first performed and they have still not learned their script. Because there is never a script to learn. The Whose Line Is It Anyway? style may stay the same, but the improvised content is almost totally dictated by audience suggestions.
Last night's show, featuring Phelim McDermott, Lee Simpson, Suki Webster, Niall Ashdown, founding member Neil Mullarkey and admirably nimble pianist Colin Sell, opened with Sean Connery, an autobahn and a whisk in a typically silly sketch.
McDermott's mad hair harvested laughs when words occasionally failed him, Simpson added an air of witty calm. Suki Webster gave good femme fatale, Ashdown ad-libbed as if his life depended on it and genial facilitator Mullarkey never let proceedings slacken.
If in difficulty, there was always the vulgarity fallback, but hangmen and cricket were two suggestions rejected on grounds of taste. Impro can be hit and miss but the strike rate here was certainly higher than that of Flintoff and co.
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The Comedy Store Players
Comedy Store
Oxendon Street, SW1Y 4EE
