By Alan Hindle

Wednesday September 13, 2006

The Cody Rivers Show

There’s not much left that can said of the widely-lauded and loudly applauded CRS. Perhaps the most striking aspect of the hilarious sketch duo is that they have the ability to make an audience convulse uncontrollably without anyone understanding why. Sketches that oscillate from the absurd to the surreal, trigger uncontrolable, knee-jerk laughter with little logical explanation for why they are so funny. Many of their sketches are seemingly from the moon, leaving the audience confused about what is going on in front of them, yet laughing maniacally.We know it’s extremely funny, but we can’t figure out the reason, and it really doesn’t matter anyway. A must see.
— Kliph Nesteroff

The Living Room
The two-man sketch comedy duo of Sean Devlin and Kevin Lee was recently described in a Vancouver weekly as having a “languid, slacker sensibility” which was certainly proven to those waiting in line for their opening night at the Fringe. “I’ve been standing here for forty fucking minutes,” complained a curmudgeon in front of me who was obviously immune to slacker notions. During the show itself the laziness concept came to fruition as the twenty dollar Shoppers Drug Mart brand DVD player used for the several video components of the show consistently failed to work, proving that technology itself can out slack the slackiest of slackers. Regardless of the many short comings, the duo have graced the covers of two major Vancouver weeklies in a matter of days, proving that less effort equals greater results for the slackened.
— KN