What About Dick?

Nearly an hour and a half of overwrought radio slapstick (why there's even image, I have no idea) depicting the decline of the British Empire through the eyes of a piano, full of "humour about cunts and phallic toys for the ladies", where eleven out of ten attempts at a joke would have had even the kids in nursery tapping their foreheads because they were already stale and embarrassing. It rides a wave where you can see every punchline, rhyme, double entendre and wordplay a mile away because they are all the same. It's aimed at your great-grandmothers, who might blush at all the lasciviousness. The ensemble is so good that despite all the awkward unfunnyness on paper, thanks to the performances (especially in the case of the Curry/Izzard/Ullman trio) it is almost funny in places, almost. (18.01.2021)