Dick and Dom Live

The Alhambra

WHEN the entire audience leave with a big grin on their face, it shows they've been thoroughly entertained.

And that is exactly what Dick and Dom brought to the Alhambra, with their unique blend of silliness and jokes.

The veteran children's entertainers pitted each side of the audience against one another in a Dick vs Dom contest, ensuring every member of the audience - young and old - were involved.

Round one saw a dance-off to a song about Dick and Dom's favourite bodily fluid - bogies - with Team Dick taking the lead, although in the next round, where two hapless fathers were picked to make smoothie with ingredients including baked beans and Marmite - and drink it - while wearing boxing gloves, saw Team Dom draw level.

Team Dom extended its lead to 3-1 before the interval in two more games.

After the break Team Dick staged a great comeback, with a mother successfully punching her way out of a huge paper bag, the audience giving a better rendition of a rude song, and a group dance to the YMCA.

The night closed with a Dick and Dom classic, musical "splat-ues", where the losers received a foam pie to the face, including one parent who didn't want her son's impressive afro covered in foam, but the game quickly descended into a pie-fight, with the two hosts getting well and truly covered in foam.

For the young adults in the crowd - of which there were many - who grew up with Dick and Dom, it was a great throwback to the wacky Saturday mornings of their youth, and for the youngsters in the crowd it was 90 minutes of non-stop laughs, introducing a new generation to the antics of Dick and Dom. The parents were not left out either, with plenty of jokes that went straight over the children's head to keep them entertained.

In their heyday Dick and Dom were kings of kids TV, and while their generation may now have grown up, Dick and Dom Live shows the pair have still got what it takes to keep the next generation of children happy.