The Doug Anthony Allstars

Fresh from the Edinburgh Fringe and having recently emerged from twenty years hibernation, The Doug Anthony Allstars are back with the bombard of irreverent comment and intelligent vulgarity which first caused their ascent.

The reformation of Australia's most famous musical comedy export is certainly welcome. Music, sex, death, sex, and sex are the concern of their new show, called Near Death Experience. The chance to see it should be seized by anyone also weary of those disciples at the altar of tittering political correctness (who, in the winter of the All Stars' absence, began suddenly to call themselves comedians).

Paul McDermott is as snappily rambunctious as ever, reminiscent somewhat of a greying Agro (the puppet) as he squawks hilarities from the confines of his favourite vest, Tim Ferguson, wheelchair-bound by multiple sclerosis, stars with an unsentimental and smiling magnificence, and Paul 'Flacco' Livingston, recent inductee, revels quietly in the others' incivility, remaining faultless on guitar.

While it is true that the trio moves more slowly than they once did - Ferguson barely at all - they still exude a magnetic and warming energy. Famous first for their riotous boundary-pushing, DAAS, now somewhat calmer, are still uttering the unutterable, second-to-none in their ability to make bad taste pleasant.