I was stunned by Frankie Taggart's review of Tina C's performance at the Spiegeltent (The Argus, May 10).

Were we really both watching the same show?

I can't help feeling that the extremely clever irony and astute perceptions of Chris Green, played out as his alter-ego Tina C, went completely over the head of your reviewer.

It was easily one of the funniest and most clever shows I have seen in a long time and, judging by the hugely enthusiastic response of the audience, I was not alone in my enjoyment of the show. I laughed from start to finish.

The character of Tina C is a full-scale, living, breathing, Barbie-doll caricature of American attitudes and culture, presented in a way that is genuinely funny yet, in this world full of anti-American sentiment, is not offensive.

Flashing her glorious smile, Tina C has the audience on-side as she throws well-meant insults, mispronounces words, naively misunderstands concepts and, full of self-importance, puts herself at the centre of global politics, peace and the arts.

Frankie says "Green's material relies more on the telling than the jokes themselves" - but that's precisely what makes it so funny.

Yes, Tina C is obsessed by Country & Western music but that is the joke.

She presents "a series of crass songs about healing and the naff patter of the worst touchy-feely self-help guru" - but this is exactly the stuff comedy is made of.

Frankie says the show was as lame as his (seriously misquoted) joke.

I'd say that this review is rather lame in missing the point of the show entirely.

-Siiri Metsar, Boronia, Australia