2:20pm Friday 19th March 2010
By Rebecca Cain
AFTER wowing audiences in their sell-out run at the Edinburgh Festival the Pappy's Fun Club World Record Attempt is coming to High Wycombe.
The show takes on the impossible and aims to so 200 sketches in just 60 minutes to scoop one world record.
But will they succeed? Only time will tell.
One part of the trio, Matthew Crosby, took time out from his manic tour to chat to us. He said: “I don't want to say exactly what happens.
“If you were to watch 200 sketches they would each be 18 seconds long. I don't know how much fun that would be.”
Crosby, 30 storms through sketch by sketch with friends Tom Parry, 29 and Ben Clark, 28.
He said: “We use a time travelling event to travel back in history to go to other world record breakers like Robert Wadlow- the tallest man and smallest woman Pauline Musters.
“It is manic. You are trying to do as many sketches as possible. At the first few dates of the tour we had to say sorry but we are out of breath.
“It is a good work out. The idea for the show is we wanted to do something that hadn't been done before in the theatre.”
For the first half an hour the fun club perform their favourite sketches and in the second half they attempt their world record attempt.
But who is Pappy? Crosby said: “When we first started we came up with this idea to have a mysterious benefactor control everything we do do- a God-like figure.
“If we don't finish this world record attempt he will fire us. We like to tell a story of the course of an hour.”
They played at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2006 at a venue which was free to go to and at last year's main festival they played to a sell-out audience at the Pleasance Theatre.
Crosby said: “It has all happened pretty fast. It is one of those things-a bit like being a pop singer- you watch comedy on TV and it is really hard to know how to go from being in the audience and getting up on stage. And then I think that is where the Edinburgh festival comes into play.”
Pappy's Fun Club World Record Attempt is at the Wycombe Town Hall on Wednesday March 24 at 8pm. Tickets cost £12 and £10 for concessions. To book call 01494512000 or go to www.wycombeswan.co.uk.
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