The Monkey Butlers are Hal Cruttenden, Zoe Lyons, Caimh McDonnell and Paddy Lennox who together perform this hour of sketch comedy that is amongst the best on offer at the Fringe this year, and probably for a few years previously as well.

The pace of this show is hectic and the quality of the material pretty damn good too. I counted nearly twenty different sketches, some being the continuation of earlier ones and they had their packed audience in stitches throughout.

I would be hard pushed to pick a favourite as all had their good points, but if pressed maybe, the series of pot holing skits may just shade it, and if you thought the Monty Python team wrote The Dead Parrot sketch, then perhaps you better think again. The real writers will be revealed during the course of the show.

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