After 25 years, the Wharf Revue is pulling up the stumps and barring any Nellie Melba-style shenanigans, this show is the last we’ll see from writer-performers Jonathan Biggins, Drew Forsythe and Phil Scott in this configuration.

They’ve ended a remarkable run on a high, however. Less driven talents might have opted for a ‘greatest hits’ finale and cruised to a close on a wave of nostalgia. In The End of the Wharf as We Know It, Biggins, Forsythe and Scott go out with satirical popguns blazing.

Phil Scott, Jonathan Biggins, David Whitney, Mandy Bishop and Drew Forsythe. Photo © Vishal Pandey

Biggins gets the ball rolling in the guise of former PM Paul Keating, who dryly hammers in the coffin nails a speech that likens a Wharf Revue barb to being slapped with overcooked broccolini.

Directed by Biggins and Forsythe, the show maintains a lively pace, with sketches interspersed with a series of video clips purporting to be Hindsight, the latest ABC doco on 21st century politics. It’s a perfect frame for quick final glimpse of some of the Revue’s sharp caricatures of former PMs and cabinet eccentrics.

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