Tripod never fail to please in my book, and this show was no exception. They have stumbled across some money for props, and the results are quite clever. Multimedia presentations, costume changes and extra members in the finale have all been enlisted. Tripod use these devices to take us on a journey of musical comedy, a history of the funny song.

There is no denying that they are funny guys, but there were moments when comedy took a backseat to the props, videos and heavily scripted conversation.

Spontaneous moments were few and far between during the performance, leaving their comic virtues truly untapped. I found the evening highly entertaining, but Tripod have delivered far funnier and more quick-witted performances than How to Train an Attack Dog from Scratch.

The songs were fantastically performed with a real flair for each musical genre covered, but there were very few funny lines.

By the end of the show, I came out knowing very little about training attack dogs but a whole lot more about musical comedy, with the emphasis quite heavily placed on music rather than comedy.

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