Then there's Pappy's Last Show Ever, probably the best (and certainly the most moving) sketch show I've seen in 15 years, and which encouraged a great leap forward for creatively ambitious group comedy.
Tour details: pappyscomedy.com Correction: The feature stated that this is Pappy's first national tour - in fact it is their third.
Other strong flyers are Pappy's, a rhapsody in beige tones and retro fonts –"There's a touch of Mad Men to it," says Sukan,. It's 1950s pastiche and they're advertising themselves" – and the nautical portrait for Jollie: Roger! for which Sukan tracked down a World War One tugboat on a canal in north London.
Daily's grandfather was Pappy Daily, a legendary country impresario who discovered George Jones, and his father ran an independent label, which issued three Ace in the Hole Band singles in the late nineteen-seventies — Strait's first recordings.
It's exactly what Pappy's Fun Club (as they were then known) did with their magnificent 2009 show.
It's sketch group Pappy's Fun Club who'll be taking us back to the days of poorly tracking VHS tapes and facing their own personal El Guapo this month as they present a big-screen showing of the Steve Martriple-threatse-Martin Short triple-threat classic Three Amigos.
"When is Pappy going to die?" The adults fell over themselves responding, trying to both reassure him and ourselves, as if the faster and louder we answered his question, the more we would negate it: A lot of years.
You could say the same about the finest sketch troupe of recent years, Pappy's – and it's no coincidence that when two of its members (Tom Parry and Matthew Crosby) splintered off into solo standup, their personae (the former, a capering fool; the latter, a pedagogic nerd) barely changed.
"Take my hand on this step, Pappy, it's a little slippery," I said to my husband during a recent hike.
The dog is suave and smoky, its skin popping under the teeth; we've chosen jalapeño and onions on top and, with its pappy, sweet bun, it's like a cinema hotdog with delusions of presidency.
