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SOCIALISM loves a double act. Fidel and Che, Lenin and Trotsky. The straight man and the renegade. Perhaps it furthers the dialectic.
Less common in socialist circles however is the comedy double act, and so Jonny Donahoe and Paddy Gervers — the Marx and Engels of musical comedy — plough a unique furrow with their mix of radical politics, surreal comedy and expert musicianship.
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