Who doesn’t love a show all about having twins? Possibly people who don’t actually have them.
Fortunately, this doesn’t seem to be a problem for Ben Payne, though – who on the night I saw this show had somehow managed to fill his room with every parent of twins in the state. And they lapped up every insightful word he had on the topic.

Payne’s focus ranges from jokes about explaining sex to children, to having a vasectomy, to living in Tasmania, with observations about having twins liberally dispersed throughout. This is as far as his focus does range, though, and you leave feeling that you forgot to do something rather more important. That’s not to say that it isn’t funny at times, but it is a little limited in its appeal.

As the Raw Comedy winner in 1999, Ben Payne must have been an interesting young man. He’s affable and boy next-door-ish, and I imagine in a short format stand-up show he’d probably do quite well. Here, though, a lot of the jokes are stretched out and don’t go far beyond ‘What are the differences between men and women’?

If you do happen to have twins, I recommend this show. You’ll identify with the humour and find the stories well within the reach of what must be exhausted heads. If you don’t, go along for the moment when the audience is asked if anyone there tonight has twins and you’re suddenly surrounded by a forest of raised arms’that moment had me laughing out loud.