Is there an abattoir next to your child care centre? Find out what happens when you under-stimulate intelligent people, who are quick of wit, with jobs in the public service. For relief, they default to wicked extra-curricular activities, and The Department of Humour Services gives one such display of a successful pursuit down the dark road of stand up comedy. Three public servants take us on a journey of Dilbert-esque desk experiences.

Top shelf Town Planner and self-confessed Sign Approver, Ben Lomas takes us through the daily protocols of correct business card exchange and competitive office morning tea grievances procedures. Standing out as a definitive highlight is the sharp wit of Elvin Ho, clearly a self-starter, who spends his days in the office challenging the mechanisms of public service workplace inclusive practices with his self-ridiculing racist toilet graffiti campaign. Scott Steensma leads, in true grey-suit style, a question time/press conference at the end of the show giving the audience the chance to probe into the murky depths of these hardworking, and perhaps pharmaceutically-oriented, taxpayer-funded characters.

If your office workplace has an upcoming planning meeting to plan the operational plan, then this is the show for you.