Zen Zen Crazy Fringe Club January 1 Zen Zen Crazy isn't. Nor is it even particularly funny. It is, however, an act described as 'side-splitting' and 'award-winning'. It wasn't, and it shouldn't have been.
When the publicity material warns you not to die laughing, there's scope for a mighty fall. And they fell, albeit bumping themselves a little on the way down.
Japanese duo Zen and Mi really began to slip right from the beginning - a short film of them preparing for the performance, trying to get a laugh while eating sushi. Crazy.
And it stumbled along from there, with sketches that were too long, jokes that were too obvious, observations too well known, and humour far too basic. So why did I find myself laughing? The show kicked off the first night of the month-long Star Alliance City Festival. A pity then that the audience numbered just 16. New Year hangover factor perhaps.
Zen is described as a robot maniac; Mi a Nunchak maniac. I'm not sure why. Crazy. For more than an hour, they combined stand-up, skits, video and even a slide projector to detail the 'absurd world of Japanese' - you know, poor English; always taking photographs; toilets that talk. Usual stuff.
But it was mostly old hat, and in part simply old: the script that literally made you die laughing - a take on Monty Python's funniest-joke-in-the-world sketch, for instance. Take their material at you peril, guys.