Oliver Hamm, Journalist

Jaspers is an engaging and confident story-teller, who manages to work some genuinely touching moments in amongst the gags.

Dassalo’s great claim to fame has always been the fact that his great-grandfather, Fred, invented Vegemite.

Ably supported by her assistant, “Flaxen McGinty” (the incomparable Virginia Gay, dripping sex and talent in equally abundant measure), and accompanist Simon Ross, McGregor is ringleader to a different circus each night, showcasing the best of the festival.

Awkward sexual encounters, kitchen-dominating mothers, James Blunt, and the relative merits of singledom vs couplehood, all provide rich source material for some very well crafted comic lyrics.