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Next Best Thing
Written by Jodie Bryant
I know what you’re thinking… a duo, females…comedy? Not necessarily the most common mixture of things but Jay Bennett and Katie Davison really are serious contenders as the ‘next best thing’ by calling themselves this, you’d expect them to be either horrifically bad or terribly good, of which they are (thankfully) the latter.
The name can be interpreted in two ways, which is a base for one of the team’s sketches, on Jay’s side she thought it meant they are the next BEST THING as in up and coming big deal. However, Katie understands it as they are next to the best thing, therefore, not the best thing, but the next one… which sort of makes it funnier
My family and a few friends went to the first show EVER about a month ago expecting great things, of which there were a lot!
Jay and Katie performed about 20 different sketches in the space of an hour, all creative, different and hilarious; the audience were loving it!
Some of my favourite sketches involved speed dating, talking to your child about murder, a ‘bad’ doctors appointment and the never-ending reminders that both girls lived in France for a year.
We were genuinely impressed with the inventive sketches and now my friends are also fans, we watched their second show at the Ram Jam club in Kingston (Olivia you missed out), which was equally if not funnier than their show before, largely due to a sketch about ‘Two Tone,’ a tap dancing duo.
If you want to take a look at some of their stuff I introduce you to the ‘Next Best Thing!’
This is how they began, on youtube, however now they’ve got less American accents and are on the way to performing at Edinburgh Festival next summer.