As I was watching Nevermind the Buzzcocks, I wasn’t all that interested in the show itself. I was more interested in finding out who the heck Noel Fielding was. I soon found out that Noel is part of a comedy act called The Mighty Boosh with Julian Barratt.
The Mighty Boosh is the most amazingly strange and surreal show I’ve ever seen. The Mighty Boosh is comprised of Julian and Noel as Howard Moon and Vince Noir, Mike Fielding (Noel’s brother) as Naboo the shaman, Dave Brown as Bollo the gorilla, and Rich Fulcher as Bob Fossil (and other various characters). In series one, Howard and Vince work in a zoo run by Bob Fossil where each episode begins and ends. Much of the episode is spent in various places such as monkey hell and the arctic tundra while interacting with strange characters like the spirit of jazz and the hitcher (an entirely green man with a polo for an eye and an enormous thumb). Naboo runs a souvenier stand and offers advice of varying usefulness. Series two shows Howard and Vince no longer at the zoo and living with Naboo and Bollo in a flat in Dalston, and series three centered around Naboo’s Nabootique located below the flat.
I’m really finding it impossible to describe The Boosh any more clearly so I’ll just leave you with some clips that will hopefully explain it a bit better.
Various clips
I love the boosh!! Tony Harrison is awesome! “I had champagne in my Golden Grahams this morning, I am steaming.”