Do you want to make it in the music world? Then you will gain invaluable help in your climb to the top from Pop Centre Plus. This wannabees’ academy is expertly — and highly comically — conducted by Frisky and Mannish. A theatreful of recruits was put through its paces at the Oxford Playhouse on Saturday night — and very entertaining it was.

Frisky (Laura) and Mannish (Matthew) are a pair of 26-year-olds who first performed together eight years ago as members of the Oxford Revue.

They are tipped themselves to be the ‘next big thing’ following the success of the show at the Edinburgh Fringe. The running time there was just an hour; now it is closer to two, suggesting a certain amount of padding.

The duo supply a jaundiced view of the pop business, which might be summarised in the title of the famous Frank Zappa song, We’re Only in it for the Money.

Frisky, who is a brilliant mimic, and Mannish, who is an expert performer on the keyboard, demonstrate the highly formulaic nature of what is being supplied these days to the teenage audience.

That it is for a teenage audience meant that quite often — OK, almost always — the targets of the satire went unrecognised by me. I was very grateful to my neighbours in the stalls — part of the Mannish family group of supporters, I gathered - for putting me in the picture about the likes of Cheryl Cole, Britney Spears and Adele.

The irony is that quite clearly Frisky and Mannish possess the talent — not to say the looks — to make it big in the pop business themselves. But comedy is going to give them a far longer shelf life.