Horne of plenty

Round the Horne...Revisited The Venue, London W1

The current obsession with reviving a golden age of comic greats (West End tributes to Morecambe and Wise and Spike Milligan, films about Pete and Dud) might be read as a comment on the state of modern comedy. Watching Brian Cooke's hugely enjoyable and newly revised stage version of the 1960s radio classic Round the Horne, it's easy to spot prototypes for much of the BBC comedy that's followed. Where would Little Britain's 'only gay in the village' or The Fast Show's Ken and Kenneth be without the pioneering innuendo of Kenneth Williams and Hugh Paddick as former chorus boys Julian and Sandy, for instance?

London's newest West End studio, the Venue, is decked out as the Paris Studios, Lower Regent Street, circa 1965 as the cast recreate a typical recording session with sketches involving all their best-known characters. A revival show is a gift to talented impressionists, and to one who didn't experience the original in real time, the voices sounded faultless.

Robin Sebastian rather steals the show as Kenneth Williams, but then Kenneth Williams always stole the show anyway. The content - adapted from original scripts by Cooke, the last surviving member of the four-man writing team - holds up surprisingly well 40 years on, though some of the double entendres might seem absurdly tame to a post-Derek and Clive generation. But this extremely slick production will delight those who remember it the first time around, and show younger comedy fans the family tree of their favourite shows.

· Until 22 Jan, then touring