Mangan and Patience gained a strong following around Australia with their "Double Take" shows, which were performed live in a cinema. Typically seated at the back of the auditorium, using microphones plugged into the cinema's sound system, the Double Take team performed live comedic voice-overs of movies such as the American B-grade sci-fi film "The Astro-zombies" and the 1960s Italian low-budget 'Sword-and-sandal' epic "Ercole, Sansone, Maciste e Ursus gli invincibili". Of necessity much of their voice-over performance was tightly scripted, but working live also allowed the team some scope to occasionally insert topical jokes and references.