It’s Saturday afternoon and my family and I have returned home from an hour of the Mr Boon’s Big Time Last Chance Kids’ Show.

 

Minutes ago, I was treated to an impromptu performance by the kids’ dad through the kitchen window. Picture this: the man of our household is flailing his arms, wildly mouthing words in the dialect of idiot and making an impression akin to what I would describe as an overweight seabird that has chewing gum stuck on the tip of its wing. He dances on for 20 seconds or so until I click.

 

He wants to know if I want a cup of tea. His display is an infectious after-effect of an hour exposed to a children’s comedy show, and its creator, Comic Mike Boon.

 

Mr Boon’s Big Time Last Chance Kids’ Show has a ‘knack’ with the little people. “That Mike Boon is really cruisey with kids,” I comment this to the kids’ dad upon leaving. “He seems to actually like them,” and “I really liked the way his show works around their attention spans.” Imagine my elation when I read in the Comedy Fest programme Mike Boon is a part time teacher. Well that explains everything.

 

The lighting in the theatre may have him sweating, but his rapport with kids is natural.

 

His set is simple and the show content is reminiscent of an old-fashioned TV Show, sans gadgets and computers…just solid eye-to-eye contact with his audience. He sings, we laugh. He dances, we laugh. He picks his nose…well you get my drift.

 

We’re glad to interact and yell “thumbs up” at his behest.

 

Tentatively, I will add today’s show featured a special guest, Rhys Darby no less, known and loved by comedy connoisseurs around NZ and the world… He is, as always, hilariously funny and also‘cruisey with the kids’, but, I hasten to add, a cool bonus.

 

You see, Mr Boon’s Big Time Last Chance Kids’ Show is a winner on its own, with just Mr Boon, his pared back ‘do you wanna play cars with me?’ manner is a nice hark back to the old fashioned way kids were stimulated, before the rubbish of PS3 and Club Penguin seeped into childhoods.