Nighty Night
2020 · 10m · USA
Directed by Matt Porter
Genres: comedy
Tones: darkly comic, humorous, melancholic
Tim can't fall asleep during an in-office sleep study and recruits the overnight technician into the project. Two anxious men, one observation room, fluorescent lights.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Gethard plus Cherry plus a sleep clinic at midnight is a Venn diagram of awkward I will always show up for. The premise is the punchline, and then the actors find ten more.
Gethard and Cherry in a fluorescent sleep-study room is exactly the kind of low-key two-hander dread I'd green-light. Porter trusts the deadpan to carry it, which is the right instinct here.
Gethard and Cherry in a sleep-study two-hander is comedy-nerd catnip — the fluorescent-lit observation room is a perfect chamber for their specific brand of low-key dread. Short-format premise comedy lives or dies on the chemistry, and this casting is the right bet.