Comedy review: The Not So Late Show With Ross and Josh

Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Ross Brierley and Josh Sadler's Fringe debut is a decent one, its flaws not suppressing the feeling that this surreality-tinged duo could develop a cult following.

Pleasance Dome (Venue 23)

***

Channelling Vic & Bob for the video game, grime generation, their Big Night Out-style chatshow is a lot of fun that nevertheless takes a while to warm up, with Brierley as host bantering to little effect with bandleader Baby John, a moustachioed doll with a child’s keyboard. Only when Sadler arrives as the first guest, the T-Rex from Jurassic Park, do they get into their stride, the ludicrousness of him sharing showbusiness anecdotes while his unwieldy, ballooning costume flops and deflates around him a sight to see.

Interspersed with polished video inserts, including adverts for Malcolm Gladwell’s crude new philosophical teaser and Alan Bennett’s album of nu-metal classics, Sadler reappears as Super Mario, reflecting on his career with an unexpected Glaswegian accent, and as John Michael Jars, a jam jar playing tribute act to the Oyxgène composer. Chiefly the straight man, Brierley does get to play Bruce Foresight, an exaggeratedly gurning take on the television presenter who wades into the crowd to tell people the manner of their future death, a highpoint in a mixed introduction.

Until 28 August. Tomorrow 10:45pm.