What was the name of the sound effect comedy created by the English radio, stage, television and film writer, comedian, actor, and director whose performing career spanned more than 50 years?
Sound effect comedy During the 1960s a new series of 'sound effect' comedies began with Dick Lester, Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers's "Running Jumping & Standing Still", continued through Eric Sykes's "The Plank", Barbara Windsor's "San Ferry Ann" and included four films with Ronnie Barker: "A Home of Your Own", "Futtock's End", "The Picnic", and "By the Sea".
Noises Off Noises Off is a 1982 play by the English playwright Michael Frayn. The idea for it came in 1970, when Frayn was watching from the wings a performance of "The Two of Us", a farce that he had written for Lynn Redgrave. He said, "It was funnier from behind than in front, and I thought that one day I must write a farce from behind." The prototype, a short-lived one-act play called "Exits", was written and performed in 1977. At the request of his associate, Michael Codron, Frayn expanded this into what would become "Noises Off". It takes its title from the theatrical stage direction indicating sounds coming from offstage.