With the return of their unashamedly nice TV gameshow Hypothetical, the duo are out to prove you don’t need to be mean-spirited to get laughs
Josh Widdicombe is holding a banana to his ear with one hand and an old-fashioned red telephone in the other. Duran Duran’s The Wild Boys is blasting through the speakers as the photographer loudly directs his poses. Moments before, James Acaster was in his place, clasping a plastic megaphone and one of those rubber chickens that seem to exist primarily for standups to brandish irreverently in front of a camera.
It’s the sort of wacky photoshoot two comedians may well have found themselves obliged to grin through at any point during the past 30 years. But there is some justification for this afternoon’s antics. Acaster and Widdicombe are here to promote the fourth series of their prop-heavy parlour-gameshow Hypothetical, in which a panel of comedians are presented with a selection of ridiculous hypothetical situations: they must write the story for a musical based on the songs of S Club 7, or pretend to be a pair of identical twins for a year. Then they have to explain to their hosts how they would go about enacting said situation – often via the medium of some equally ridiculous improv.
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