Totally Tom (Tom Palmer & Tom Stourton) have been making waves since 2010 which also saw them get signed by an agent and which has led to a pilot deal with Channel Four. What makes them work so well is the combination of their writing, sketches length, and most importantly their finish.

Osmangolu invaded the stage with bravado. Brandishing two hairdryers he looks every much a warlord or prince. Unfortunately, that this was Osmangolu’s second attempt at the rather audacious entrance ruined his princely edge. Being 19th in line to the Turkish throne is certainly diluted by his half-English ‘posh boy’ genes; but it produces perhaps the most seductive voice on the Fringe.

Farnan’s is brand of comedy I find most captivating: it points directly at serious issues, lacing with with humor topics such as inequality and the perception of money. here, in Money, Money, Money, Farnan centers on the Irish economic meltdown, and from there goes onto discuss the wrath that money has upon our relationships and general being.

This was unfortunately the first show I saw at the Edinburgh Fringe, but at least it won’t be the last. One needs only to look at the audience to judge the success of a comedy show; how were they acting on this occasion? As though they’d wasted their time and money.