Review: Lisää saikkua, kiitos!
Comedians’ doctor sketches and upbeat rhymes still make us laugh in the sequel
Last year, we had the opportunity to laugh at Mikko Kivinen’s, Ville Keskilä’s and Kalle Pylvänäinen’s medical sketches at the Helsinki City Theatre. The trio has completed their tour in Finland and will return to Helsinki again with the new More Saikkua, please! performance.
On the stage is again a slew of white coats. The Doctor of the Year competition, familiar from the first part, is also still in full swing. An ordinary health centre doctor and a doctor from Eira Private Hospital are facing each other.
Despite the unfair setting, the end result is not as obvious as you might think. Among other things, the competitors get to explain words like in the Alias game and guess diseases based on voice samples.
However, the play no longer features the Duo Aspirin, known from the first part. Kivinen regrets that the band broke up due to artistic disagreements. However, the trio of actors formed a new band and named it Duo Disperine.
So there will still be laid-back music and many familiar songs from the previous part. Comedian Ismo Leikola has once again put some cool rhymes into words. For example, the song Don’t Google is left playing in your head after the performance.
A patient without a conscience?
One of the funniest sketches in the play tackles a very topical topic: the health and social services reform. Health and social services include freedom of choice, i.e. the client’s right to choose their place of treatment and doctor.
Mikko Kivinen throws the entire freedom of choice to the limit. He lets the patient choose the consulting room and the doctor there. There would be rooms on several floors and with walls of different colours. Even a doctor can be young or old, muscular or chubby.
The sketch shows how incomprehensible things are wrestled with in Parliament. In the end, is it a question of whether the patient can choose the color of their doctor’s tie?
Quick sketches in which the doctor updates the research results are also great entertainment. They need help from a colleague. Who can be a patient whose examination results are completely lacking, but whose conscience is completely lacking? The patient is, of course, Björn “Nalle” Wahlroos.
Ähtäri panda on stage
All three comedians have mastered the slang of doctors excellently. The humour comes from the fact that the viewer recognises strangely familiar features in the comedians. Real doctors also talk and behave in the same way.
Of course, Mikko Kivinen and his partners do not remain at the dry, matter-of-fact level of doctors, but shoot briskly over the top. For example, a sketch about alcohol is a good example of this. It describes the complex attitude of Finns towards alcohol.
On the one hand, drinking alcohol is encouraged in groups of friends, and on the other hand, at the same time, a doctor should preach about the dangers of liquor. All you need for the sketch is a doctor, a patient and one panda bear from Ähtäri. At the latest, when the panda enters the stage, the audience bursts into laughter.