Niall Browne & Elaine Malcolmson: All Kinds of Everything

This charming comedy duo from “Nireland” (Northern Ireland) will brighten up anyone’s lunchtime with this pleasing little show about all kinds of everything. It is not an overly clever act and it won't ever fill huge auditoriums, but it is sweet and engaging. Browne and Malcolmson act dumb in the most endearing of ways, playing on their Northern Irish accents (“ladies and gentlemen, this show’s being brought to you today without the aid of complex vowel sounds”) and their belief in giants and fairies. It is rare to see a duo so in tune with each other’s thought processes: even when they are improvising or responding to members of the audience, they never fail to interrupt each other and finish off each other’s sentences, often to very funny effect. Browne pretends to flounder for words a lot of the time, but in fact there is nothing incompetent about this duo at all. They know how to raise a warm reception from an audience, and all the “bad jokes” are clearly only there so that they can reflect on them afterwards, raising laughs as effectively as this witty, elegant and pleasingly executed set.