When The Adventures of Lano and Woodley started airing on the ABC in September 1997, it already seemed like the product of an earlier generation. Built off the back of a slapstick stage show that Colin Lane and Frank Woodley had been honing in comedy clubs around the country since the early 90s, the pair’s double act took cues from great physical comedians throughout the ages – the likes of Rowan Atkinson, The Three Stooges, Charlie Chaplin and Peter Sellers.
With their stage show wedged into a half-hour sitcom format, the duo inject the mad situational nonsense of great BBC sitcoms such as Fawlty Towers and Are You Being Served? It’s a world where misunderstandings run rife, white lies are blown out of reasonable proportion and accidental baby-theft is par for the course.
