Noises Off is a masterfully crafted comedy that takes you on a wild ride behind the scenes of a theatre company's disastrous production of a farce called Nothing On. As the eccentric cast navigates forgotten lines, misplaced props, and personal feuds, their performances become increasingly chaotic, with doors slamming shut at the wrong moments, sardines going missing, and romantic entanglements causing tension.
Some comedians are simply born funny. When Will Ferrell appeared on The Late Show earlier this summer, Stephen Colbert asked him to name who he saw at his first concert and he responded Roddy Ricch with a straight face. Just a hip-hop guy, about five years ago, he joked. My first concert. It was enough to bring me to tears, and Ferrell did it so easilylike King Midas, but if everything he touched burst into laughter.
This highly physical comedy about two competitive swimmers begins at the beginning not with a referee's whistle but a stand-alone aquatic opus racing through humans' evolution from fish. In caps, goggles and bathing suits, Alexander Burnett and Ellie Whittaker recount our abiding passion for the water, from the earliest forms of life to Napoleon diving into an especially wet misremembering of Waterloo,
