Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse are touring their 90s characters around the UK,and trying to update them for the era of #piggate. But can they ever really work when comedy relies on the here and now for its bite?It’s been fascinating to see the reviews arrive in for Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse’s Legends tour. With the exception of Veronica Lee at the Independent (who insists that “this thoroughly enjoyable evening is much more than an exercise in nostalgia”), the consensus appears to be that this thoroughly enjoyable evening is largely an exercise in nostalgia. One reviewer opens his article with reference to “Friday afternoon chemistry class at Wallasey School in the autumn of 1990” – when his esteem of the duo was at its keenest – while none fail to mention the pair’s 80s and 90s ubiquity, and the claim that “the Thatcher years simply weren’t complete”,as the Manchester Evening News has it, “without [the image of] an obnoxious upwardly mobile Cockney waving a wad of £50 notes around shouting ‘loadsamoney’”.
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Source: theguardian.com