In April 2009 the Messrs. CunSut will once again don their controversial dressing gowns and continue their proud tradition of great comedy, memorable intermissions and fun for the whole family, except Gran obviously.

CunSut Productions has become a by-word (prior to 1956 it was just one word run together) and this doubling of fun is only one of many steps in CunSut’s evolution. But how did the Messrs. CunSut (our self-same selves) begin their astonishing career we hear you ask? Well, we’ll tell you, in excruciating detail.

In the eight century BC, the Grecian poet Homer, with more than a little help from the Messrs. Cunsut, wrote a gentle-self-parody which he named ‘The Sillyad.’ Although today Homer’s other works are largely forgotten, ‘The Sillyad’ laid down the cardinal rules for comedy which govern our existence. 1) It is not funny if it is not accurate 2) Comedy should be, above all things, lovely; and 3) Things inside horses are invariably funny, excepting if it is in their tummies, in which case it is purely functional, unless they have eaten something amusing, like a whoopee cushion, in which case it is a statutory joke. Over the centuries many commented that we seemed to be going from strength to strength (especially after enlisting the Incredible Hulk), although we were set back slightly in the Dark Ages when the oppression of the Church severely limited the comic scope of each performance. Soon sketches were banned if they were about things that weren’t monks, unless the sketches made fun of monks, in which case they were banned.

Luckily in 1485 the Renaissance arrived by courier post and smiling returned. Henry VIII is reported to have gone through six wives in one night because they were continually dying of laughter. Even Sir Thomas More was heard to titter from his pyre. In the 1602 CunSut Doublet Hour (“Doublet or Nothing!”) we enlisted the services of a contemporaneously popular writer, one William Shakespeare. Always a fast worker, England’s greatest man of letters soon introduced refreshments in the lobby. Truly a visionary before his time. These refreshments and the utensils used to make them consisted of: Measure For Measuring Cup; Troilus and Colander; The Tempestle; Coriandanus; Omelette: Prince of Denmark; Henry the Fork: Prong 1 and 2; As You Pikelet; All’s Well that Blends Well; The Merchant of Venison; The Merry Knives of Whisker; Julius Seasoning; The Taming of the Stew; A Cutlery of Errors; A Mid-Simmer Lite Cream; The Two Noodle Kinsmen; Macbread; Thyme-On Of Athens; A Plover’s Complaint; The Two Gelatins of Verona; Much Fondue About Nothing; Peri-Pericles; Romeo and Julienne; Henry the Fish; Offallo; Richard the Curds (and Whey); Henry the Plate; Twelfth Bite - Or Kumquat You Will; Edward the Stirred; The Rape of Licorice; Love’s Flavour’s Lost; Pilchard II; Cymblebean; The Winter’s Quail; Anchovy and Cleopatra; Henry the Sieve; Venus and a Donut; Peking Lear; King CaJohn and Titus Asparagus.

But Shakespeare’s genius could only carry the Messrs. CunSut so far, and disaster loomed with the advent of the Industrial Revolution. Amongst the many new inventions such as the Spinning Jenny, the Cotton Gin and the Electric Pants (later renamed the oven), came a machine that threatened the very foundations for original comedy – It was Mr Newcomen’s Steam-Powered Joke Lathe, which had an output of forty sketches per hour, only thirty nine of which concluded with a pie to the face. It seemed that CunSut’s long history may finally have come to an end. Forced to take up its years of unclaimed maternity leave, the show was put on indefinite hold. This hiatus lasted for nearly two centuries while the duo hid out during depressions and World Wars under a big false moustache. However, in 1965 at the beginning of the Vietnam War, the world needed comedy and we were not about to let them down. Heading overseas to entertain the troops with our stage show ‘More Like Bob Hopeless,’ we regained all our former glory and the rest, as they say, is geography.