Praise indeed for the Geordie funny man, but praise he has certainly earned. Ross began performing when he was fifteen and struggled through the numerous obstacles new comedians face with a rare determination. He was once heckled off in a student union bar, not because the crowd didn’t like his act but because the stage he was using had been improvised from a snooker table, and a few people wanted a game.
In the show he brings to Eden Court in March, Things, Ross explores things – big things and small things. Things that have happened to him, things that might have happened to you. That topic should give him unlimited reign to let his imagination off the leash and let it scamper round the theatre like an excited puppy licking the faces of the audience and ferreting about in their trousers.
Just like an errant puppy Ross can only just keep control of his precocious imagination and, once off the leash, even he can have little idea where it will end up.
You have to see Ross Noble live – he really doesn’t do TV. Certainly you can see him occasionally on chat shows with Jonathan Ross, but that is not his natural habitat. He has produced some brilliant DVDs of his performances, and Fizzy Logic is hugely entertaining and achingly funny. Despite these excellent digital reproductions, Ross’s comedy is very much in the moment and you really have to be there, to see the man in the flesh, to experience the full effect of the Noble experience.
© John Burns, 2009
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