AbouT ThE IdiotS
The Live Naked Idiots are a four-piece sketch show, mixing live sketches with video, audio commentary and music to create a trademark show packed with hilarity and general idiocy. Formed for the first Hull Comedy Festival, the four come from diverse comedy backgrounds, but are united by the pursuit of laughter, preferably while wearing something ludicrous. The shows are bound around recurring characters - here's a flavour of some of them. If you let them into your life, they'll ruin it, but only in the most seductive of manners. Like when it's gently oiled and it just slips in.
We're down the pub and who do we see? Yes, that's right - of course, it's Buddha, Jesus and Ganesh! They're just like you and me! Only grumpier and with more impressive powers. Although rubbish at darts.
Steamy news in the sauna, where Pete, a sensitive soul, meets Steve, an unreconstructed muscle man whose sensitivity is not dissimilar to a toilet seat. Also in the sauna are Trina and Debbie, two hopeless slappers in search of a man - any man. Really. Anyone at all.
Over in East Yorkshire, the newsroom of The Ridings Bugle is buzzing. The editor Armstrong is always just about to break the story of the year - somehow it never quite works that way and hell hath no fury like Armstrong scorned.
In Toytown, Big Ears rules the underworld with a fist of iron that would make Tony Soprano wince. Awful crimes have been committed, but criminal mastermind Big Ears can keep on top. It's like Scarface, only nastier and with more guns and cocaine.
We've had Gods In A Pub: how about Dogs In A Sub? They said it couldn't be done - they were wrong. As well as Das Woof, the Dogs try their hands at running a car rental franchise in East Yorkshire. And why the hell not? Who wouldn't want to hire a car from a Border Collie? I mean, really.
All of this mixed in with performances from those who couldn't be there to collect their awards in person but appear via video link, dispensing sage advice, selling you things you never knew you needed or bringing you bang up-to-date with the latest events in football.
And these characters just keep finding new friends! Check back regularly for the latest updates.
That's the Live Naked Idiots - covered in the tomato ketchup of idiocy in a comedy cheeseburger of joy. With a gherkin of nudity on top.
Like most burgers, the gherkin is usually discarded on the grounds of taste.