Mighty funny myths

LEARN to stir fry with fluidity and grace, live your life as a guru, a money-maker or a wimp, let martial arts solve all your problems . . . in this comedy show from California, the 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors confront the stereotypes of Asians in America head on. Then they go for the jugular.

So we meet Mrs Chan, who wants to return her 10-year-old son to the hospital where he was born because he is interested in baseball, can only play one musical instrument, and, worst of all, he always loses video games. Clearly not a good Asian son.

'Billy, you just sit there and calculate some derivatives,' she orders.

Or the Japanese family who overwhelm the Japanese-American girlfriend of the eldest son. 'Sit on the cushion: cold floor is not good for making babies,' she is told firmly.

The performance was marked 18 or above, which is a shame, because its surreal, Simpsons-esque humour appealed to the 12-year-old in all of us. Bruce Can Cook: a fight between Mr Diarrhoea and Mr Death for the soul of their lactose-intolerant victim, a TV interview with (cellist) Yoyo Ma's long-lost brother, now a rap artist paying society back for having made him suffer for the name Yo Mama.

There was a strong college-comedy feel to the show, which meant it was heartily funny, energetic and fully in touch with the crazy side of 1990s' culture.