Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders have made their names through television. So it is absolutely appropriate that their current, large-scale live stage show is created around that medium and technology in general, that it feeds off multi-media theatrics and that its central point is that F&S are creatures of television.

It must be said that the vast Point is not a good venue for live comedy; two tiny figures with indistinct facial features, as they must have been to a large section of the audience, is probably too much like that box in the corner of the sitting room to get any sense of intimacy. The plus side was a great white set with projected backdrops and video inserts, with intelligent, slick - and sometimes funny - interplay between live and recorded material.

The act played on popular "perceptions" of the duo - the rivalry and bitterness between bossy, snooty Jennifer and upstaging, goofy Dawn - and moved smoothly between sketches and the "reality" of the two players, with French more dominant throughout. Highlights included a spot-on American-style motivational conference with buzz-words and techie gizmos, PMtv daytime tv and a Big Brother spoof.

Overall, while the characterisations were on the money and the technicals impressive, the writing just wasn't funny enough. The second half was better and the whole moved along slickly. It was refreshing to see these accomplished and likeable comedians laughing at themselves, but it would have been better if we had been able to laugh at them a bit more often.