Hip-Hop 4 Dummeez has as much to do with theatre as Shania Twain has to do with Country music. A little bit—but not much.

But don’t let that stop you from taking in some of the phattest comedy by the boyz that put a rap twist on the biblical account of Job not so long ago.

Quebec patriots Jerome Sable and Eli Batalion are back as alter egos Bushman and VowelMovement as the Grafenberg All-Stars for a tutorial in hip-hop cultural. Get your learn on because five simple lessons throughout 90 minutes is all it takes for the Master Emcees to dish out the skinny on rap techniques and Ebonic dialect.

Hilarious stuff? Hell yeah!

Not surprisingly this multi-media stand-up event best fits something out of Montreal’s Just for Laughs Comedy Festival. So don’t be surprised after the show when the rhyme rascals peddle a 13-minute DVD of a performance shot from the above-mentioned event before you exit the theatre.

The material is every bit original and oh-so-honest in its desire to score big laughs through musical maneuvering. Outtakes and deleted scenes provide added fluff to move the show forward in what can best be summed up as an anti-theatre event.

Yet Sable and Batalion show significant growth as performers when they sit down on stools to thread the bits. They won’t be scoring Dora Award nods with this latest endeavour but it’s not remotely the point.

It’s not as if they failed to prove their keen comprehension how to layer lyrics when Job: The Hip-Hop Musical debuted in 2003 or when they stormed Tarragon again the very next year with Job II: The Hip Hop Saga. This time around, however, we see the slick formula that defines the art, which draws a wealth of new respect for the genre.

The intro number S-A-B-L-E and Batalion With One “T” is pure ear candy while Gidget the Midget and Sesame Hood is hard core hilarity. As the musical contributions unfold, shades of Black Jack’s School of Rock and The Bloodhound Gang’s The Bad Touch come and go.

Furiously fun and musically mad, there’s just no dissin’ a creative assault like Hip-Hop 4 Dummeez.