Ever wondered what a flirty toaster who hates bread sounds like? Or how about a parrot reciting Dickens in a furnace?
The chances are probably not, but for one night only comedy improvisation group The Noise Next Door will bring these crazy scenarios to life at just a moment’s notice.
While the group’s comedy games sparked by audience suggestions bear more than a striking resemblance to 1990s TV show Whose Line Is It Anyway?, these likeable performers carry the day and the audience with their enthusiasm and quick wit.
For the most part, when audience members are hauled up on stage they are not humiliated even when they are the subject of a slightly misogynistic song about their drinking habits or when the main joke is they really don’t understand the game going on around them.
Indeed at times, when the cast play out the audience member’s family Christmas in one game, it is the regular Joe who gets the biggest laugh ringing a bell when the action factually resembles his home life.
With all the spur-of-the-moment puns and hastily assembled rhyming couplets, the night is probably a little short on hard belly laughs, understandably so given the spontaneous format, although the inspired use of a hanger as the one prop of the night did bring the house down.
The Noise Next Door really are five boys you wouldn’t mind having as neighbours.
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