The Most Amazing Poepols!

As you all know Richard and I have become self confessed Corne and Twakkie (of The Most Amazing Show) groupies.

Let me see we firs saw them back in 2003, I think, when they were hosting their 'Breakfast Bonanza'. Then again when they had their TMAS TV show in South Africa last Dec/Jan, then we saw their T*M*A*S show at the Independent Armchair Theatre (where I got a signed poster) in Obs a few months ago, then we Corne (Louw Venter's) Best Man Solo Show, then we saw Twakkie (Rob Van Vuuren's) Electric JuJu solo show. AND we saw Corne & Twakkie hosting The Very Late Show at the Cape Town International Comedy Festival too.

Since then we have been spotting Rob of several TV ads (aQuelle flavoured water and some insurance thing I think, possibly Momentum), as well as on the Summer Games TV show on Saturday nights (which is pretty funny to watch).

Well Thursday night saw us back in our roles as groupies as we went off the see 'The Most Amazing show Live at the Baxter'. We had middle of the front row seats. Which resulted in Richard being abused and insulted a few times. They thankfully mostly left me alone. He was told he looked 'Kak' and 'like he was from star trek', but 'at least that face mullet look you have going actually works for you. It helps you to not look so kak, so keep it up guy'. LMAO.

They were their usual zany and over the top insane selves, and we were giggling maniacally at them, to the point where Louw was eventually giggling himself and had to really 'pull it tight'. to carry on. They really picked on a few people.

In the last half of the show we had to be part of a 'Love Captain' audience participation exercise. Our middle front row section had to get on stage. We then had to take off our shoes and swap them with the person next to us, and do some silly and funny things with them. Then everyone else go to sit down and we had to stay on stage. Then they brought out large (body-bag size and shape!) clear thick plastic bags. We were told to climb into these and sit down. We were told we were the 'poepols'. The lights were turned off and Corne and Twakkie then disappeared telling us that when the lights came on and the music started we had to start moving in any way we could, and not stop.

When the lights came up, Ultravox's Forever Young started playing, and we had to writhe and undulate and roll around on the stage. Corne and Twakkie appeared in theatrical stretchy cloth cage thingies and would flounce and leap about and occasionally enclose on of us in their outfits. It sounds really stupid, and I guess it was, but it was very funny at the time. And quite fun and surprisingly tiring! To think I got all dressed up only to writhe around on a dirty stage in a plastic bag! I mean really!

I can't wait to do it again sometime soon ;P