{"id":2709,"date":"2020-06-08T15:07:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T14:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/?p=2709"},"modified":"2020-06-08T15:07:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T14:07:43","slug":"alumni-comedy-troupe-the-noise-next-door-appears-on-britains-got-talent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/2020\/06\/08\/alumni-comedy-troupe-the-noise-next-door-appears-on-britains-got-talent\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni comedy troupe The Noise Next Door appears on Britain&#8217;s Got Talent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2020\/06\/The-Noise-Next-Door.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2711\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/files\/2020\/06\/The-Noise-Next-Door.jpg\" alt=\"The Noise Next Door\" width=\"252\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thenoisenextdoor.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Noise Next Door<\/a>, a collective consisting of Kent graduates, have performed an improvised piece on TV talent show\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.itv.com\/britainsgottalent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Britain\u2019s Got Talent<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>which aired on Saturday 23 May 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The Noise Next Door comprise the following: Sam Pacelli, who graduated with an MDrama in 2008; Tom Livingstone, also graduated with an MDrama, 2008; Matt Grant, who graduated with a BA (Hons) in Film in 2008; and Robin Hatcher, who graduated with an MDrama in 2013. The improv comedy troupe perform regularly at a range of events including the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2019\/08\/21\/edinburgh-fringe-review-roundup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Edinburgh Fringe Festival<\/a>, and have also appeared BBC One, BBC Three, ITV1, BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 4. The group has performed alongside the likes of Michael McIntyre, Al Murray, and Harry Hill, an in 2014 they were nominated for a Chortle Award.<\/p>\n<p>In the improvised performance, The Noise Next Door ask judges David Walliams and Amanda Holden, as well as the live audience, to shout out suggestions for a new business. The group then perform a comedy song based on the suggestions, about a business run by <em>Britain\u2019s Got Talent<\/em>\u00a0presenters Ant and Dec, where air hostesses make wellington boots. The song includes the memorable improvised lyric: \u2018If David [Walliams] was making them, they\u2019d be called Wallington Boots\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The performance is available to watch on\u00a0<em>Britain\u2019s Got Talent<\/em>\u2018s YouTube channel, here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TA1Xsid_B98\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TA1Xsid_B98<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Noise Next Door, a collective consisting of Kent graduates, have performed an improvised piece on TV talent show\u00a0Britain\u2019s Got Talent\u00a0which aired on Saturday 23 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/2020\/06\/08\/alumni-comedy-troupe-the-noise-next-door-appears-on-britains-got-talent\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[118124],"tags":[807,229023,1187,50018,74],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2709"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2717,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709\/revisions\/2717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}