A comedy show that's quite at home on Radio 2
Despite its jokes about Radio 2 and cameos by the station's presenters, Two Episodes of Mash (Radio 2, Saturday) feels like a Radio 4 comedy. It may well end up there if the recommendations from the Delivering Quality Review are carried through: Radio 2's comedy strand is to be scrapped.
It is really funny. Even better, it features Ken Bruce, as himself. "Oooh, we've got a theme tune," he said in the second programme of the new series. "Only one week late." Diane Morgan and Joe Wilkinson are brilliant at what they term "low-key mundane glamour". This involves lots of awkward moments which tend to end in the following exchange: "Do a sketch?" "Yeah."
Those sketches might include the voices of dogs at the vet's. "When I woke up, I was wearing this cone and my testicles had gone," one of the dogs observed. That was Wilkinson, who in another sketch had to confess to blowing a business budget on an ice sculpture of Tim Henman. What makes it so humorous is that it's all deadpan and matter of fact. The show is confident but sounds humble; it is huge in its ideas but feels modest. Plus, it has great fun with its Radio 2 home, toying with face-painting Steve Wright to look like a Mexican smuggler.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/oct/16/radio-review-two-episodes-mash
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