All comedians need an identifier: a visual cue by which the audience will remember them and, hopefully, tell others to go see their show. Few have one better than Patrick and Hugo McPherson aka Pear. When it comes to sketch comedy, you’ll struggle to find two more instantly recognisable performers than these 6ft 7in identical twins.
But while twindom provides a good tagline and all the requisite gags about how, actually, they met at uni and their triplet Emmanuel keeps failing his audition to join their act, the Pear pair get most of their fun out of totally dismantling the expectations placed upon them as twins. Throughout the show, they get up close and personal in one another’s space, going so far as to play lovers. The brothers clearly revel in knowing that the audience will find these subversive moments even more funny because of their shared DNA.
