This collection of comedy skits, written and originally performed by the late, great British Beyond-the-Fringers Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, is alive and well and hilarious in the excellent hands of Tony Braithwaite and Chris Faith.

This is one of those shows that strikes you funny at first — but just funny; you're smiling in the dark, having a pleasant time. Somewhere between the restaurant called The Frog and the Peach (the title is the menu) and the song sung in faux German, "Der Flabbergast," I lost it. I laughed. I laughed at everything they said. And various people in the audience lost it sooner or later but nobody could resist.

The two actors use ultra-English accents — except when, for example, Braithwaite makes a pitch for donations to the Speech Impediment Fund in an English so, well, impeded, that you can barely understand that "mich minney is nidded for resirch." Or Faith tells a long, sad story about becoming a coal miner because he lacked the Latin to become a judge. Or when he auditions for the role of Tarzan as a one-legged man and Braithwaite, the director, assures him he'll be the first to be considered if the only others auditioning are legless. There is some hair-raising meanness when Braithwaite comes home from a movie shoot on location in Yugoslavia to hear about his mother's death, and Faith is weirdly chilling as a cabdriver in Hampstead who tells knock-knock jokes to a member of the House of Lords. The best was last: a Biblical sheepherder ("Arthur Shepard, Great Flocking Guy") is interviewed by Matthew, one of four reporters for the Bethlehem Star, about the birth of Jesus ("I was abiding in the field … ").

These two very accomplished comedians are directed by Pete Pryor, whose sense of comic timing is nearly surgical in its precision. Even the woman who changes the sets between scenes is funny. The only people who were not funny, I regret to say, were the woman at the box office and the ushers.