Review: Writer-director Bradley Cooper isn’t interested in making a comedy, outright, with “Is This Thing On?” Instead, this is the third installment in what could be a trilogy about the way that art and performance can light a person up from the inside.

Review: Writer-director Bradley Cooper isn’t interested in making a comedy, outright, with “Is This Thing On?” Instead, this is the third installment in what could be a trilogy about the way that art and performance can light a person up from the inside.