It wasn't "Would I Lie To You?" but it was funny.
The three talented comedians entertained us with their quick-witted responses to their audience interaction. Very little material was scripted bar the opening and finale but that didn't matter as all three are masters of the quip and the banter between them was top notch too.
The evening's format consisted of a quiz in the first half, where Lee and David were to guess the most popular answer according to an audience survey to questions about Glasgow. The second half involved the three acting as agony uncles to written dilemmas posed to them by members of the audience.
An example of the type of quiz question was "Which celebrity makes you most embarrassed that they represent Glasgow". Top answer: Nicola Sturgeon, followed by Lulu and Bible John.
One dilemma involved a woman asking what she should do about her partner wanting her to suck his toe, the one whose nail fell off because it was infected - their answer: say NO.
The funny lay in how they got to this answer. They did this by interviewing the dilemma setter in much the same manner as they would do on WILTY. Roving microphones on all four tiers of the theatre allowed everyone to hear the probing discussion.
When asked to give advice to the man whose wife no longer found him sexy now that he had a double penile hernia, the three bantered suggestions for a while then asked to speak to him. Only it turned out he wasn't there. His wife replied instead, informing them he couldn't make it as he was recovering at home from the operation to fix the problem. A third story involved a window cleaner wondering if it was okay for him to put a note through a deceased person's door asking for his money, having already spotted her corpse in an open coffin in the front room. She hadn't paid him for a few months so he added on a few extra cleans to his final bill hoping the bereaved family wouldn't want their departed relative to be buried in debt.
The quality of the night was tempered by the calibre of the audience. There were a few misfires (the tuneless singer and the whistler) but these were in the minority. Overall, this was glorious spontaneous comedy.
Now, was I telling a Lie or a Truth?
Ticket Price: £45.18 plus order processing fee £1 and venue levy £1.50.
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