The Pajama Men are Shenoah Allen and Mark Chavez, an American comedy duo from Albuquerque, New Mexico.
They have won numerous awards including the prestigious Barry Award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2009 and Best Newcomer and Best of the Fest at The Sydney Comedy Festival in 2009.
Their shows include In Fine Form (as Sabotage), Stop Not Going, Versus vs. Versus, and The Last Stand to Reason. Their latest show In the Middle of No One opened March 2011.
Think Murder on the Orient Express. Throw in a bit of Tex Avery. Make it a B-movie and you would still struggle to express what the Pajama Men do on stage. But one thing's clear: their show is hilarious and, given that the New Mexico duo improvise new material nightly it is always just as fresh. All they have to work with is themselves: Mark Chavez and Shenoah Allen, two thirtysomethings in pyjamas. No props. No exits and entrances. One excellent musician, Kevin Hume. And with that, they stage a comic play about a passenger train through the States, richly populated by eccentrics, and bound for murderous trouble. There will be blood – and it's none the less lurid for existing only in our imaginations.
