Daiki and Cheeky are two Japanese clowns, bringing the internationally appreciated, child-friendly LOLs to this early morning slot. The staging is simple and the humour is not sophisticated: a large part of their routine is them pulling faces and mucking about with props, but the young crowd goes bananas for it. 

The Manga reference in the Fringe programme doesn’t seem to link to anything specific in the show, other than heaps of cartoon capering about, so it might be worth managing any young expectations around that. But the unicycles are definitely a highlight for wobbly slapstick fun, and there is plenty hyping up of the crowd before their stunts. There is also spoon bending, magic tricks and a brief Elsa appearance for the Frozen fans. 

The duo are skilled mime artists (who doesn’t love the old heavy-suitcase-that-won’t-budge trick or seeing hands patting an imaginary glass wall?) but this kind of circus act lives or dies on the basic ability of the performers to capture the kids imaginations. In this case they lasso it in and keep them in fits of laughter with regular bum shaking, underpants jokes and confetti throwing.

Cartoooon!!, Assembly Roxy, until 28 August, 10.30am.