If you’re looking for musical skits with a queer Gen Z flare, High Pony is the show for you. Award-winning performers Mel O’Brien and Samantha Andrew return to the Adelaide Fringe Festival following their seasons of No Hat No Play! The Cabaret (2022) and Shit-Wrecked! (2023).

The cabaret-comedy duo’s newest show turns up the unhinged dial to take you through original songs covering lesbian stereotypes, age-inappropriate crushes, and hot takes on babies. The song hooks are so catchy and amusing (“net fucking ball” and “shit cunt”) that repeating them later will surely raise eyebrows from passersby. Mel and Sam use little dialogue and hilarious physical performances, with accompanying soundscapes, to convey impressions of water-based professionals and more familiar everyday figures.

There are no ponies (hairstyle or animal) to be seen as the pair create and discard multiple ridiculous characters with little in common beyond references to Australian culture, from eshays to netball players. Do not look for sense or pattern in this unruly hour of comedy, let this silly hyperactive duo bewilder you with absurd humour and beautiful harmonies.

The rapid pace, synth beats and gaudy dancing (complimentary) aid in the high energy of the show, with quick costume changes and simultaneously chaotic and smooth transitions through sketches.

The hectic queer comedy duo captures the purported short attention span of the younger demographic, which is no easy feat for audiences that are quick to discern what they do or don’t like. See this farcical frolicsome cabaret as part of Fringe until March 17.