Yes, it’s that time of the year where we are all a little reflective about yet another year that has just raced past us. Audiences enjoyed a comic take on 2010 with the show ‘2010: That Was The Year That Was’ at the Sydney Opera House.

The night featured a who’s who of Australian comedy with James O’Loghlin as a great MC for the evening, Peter Rowsthon, Tripod, Miley Robbins, Paul McCarthy, Fiona O’Laughlin, Rod Quantock, Peter Berner, Hannah Gadsby, Flacco and the Sandman and Jeff Green, all supported by a great band, Clayton Dooley’s Organ Donors.

The comic crew covered plenty of topics, with their main targets being our politicians, our cricketers especially Ricky Ponting, climate change, Oprah Winfrey, the Wikileaks saga, and their children! The jokes came fast and furious, sure there were plenty of misses, but there were also plenty of bullseyes.

These were my favourites from the night:-Flacco and the Sandman’s skit, the first after interval, taking place on a park bench. The skit had Flacco reading the newspaper and reeling off jokes, whilst the downbeat Flacco played the straight man, feeding off Flacco who put on a bit of a German accent, as well as throwing minties into the audience…They were great!

Fiona O’Laughlin only performed a short set but impressed with her skit on satirising Ophra Winfrey’s interviewing techniques, which O’Laughlin claims only amounts to feeding back to the interviewee prompts to what they have just said. O’Laughlin used, as her example, Winfrey’s interview with Maria Schneider, the wife of Arnie Schwarzenegger.

The three piece comedy band, Tripod, were entertaining. They had two skits, one had one of the singers hop on the keyboards, whilst his two colleagues heckled him from seats in the stalls. The other skit was more innovative, a bit on the impro style, combined one line prompts called out from the audience, and melded them together to form a fun song that ended the evening.

Paul McCarthy did an excellent job, with the audience having a lot of fun, watching his impersonations of Kevin Rudd, with knives in his back, and a pompous Julia Gillard, assisted with a large multi-media screen on which were typed fun comments about politicians, especially the poor, beleaguered Labor Party.

This was the third year in a row for ‘That Was The Year That Was’. The show played the Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House, on Wednesday 29th and Thursday 30th December, 2010.