The Mighty Boosh TV programme

> was much better than it appeared to be

huh?

> however search out previous threads on the subject

there isn't much and all of it's on threads dedicated to other programs (i'm not an animal, for instance)

i enjoyed it, i think. bits of it were a bit forced (the shakespeare) and the song went on too long. will set the tivo for it and see how it goes (there seems to be a lack of interesting things to watch these days, pre-christmas lull i guess.)

theres something about bb3 that really galls me, i cant wait till they pull the plug on it.

by this I mean I put it on to half ignore whilst doing cooking or ironigor something and ended up glued and chuckling.

howard's voice is identical to that of Tim from Spaced.

i find it drags a bit, BUT only by a couple of minutes so the bit's they'd have to cut out to accommodate the adverts would tighten things up.

song was better this week. liked the glam rock snowsuit and the polar bear. and the icerink script editor.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain/wednesday/rams/2330.ram

was another episode on bbc2 last week after months of nothing. and was late rather than the (dreadful) 7 o'clock slot. 'Mutants'. 'I want to be remembered for the things i've said', 'what, "where's my green trousers?"?'

Have no fear . . . .

http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-26324/The_Mighty_Boosh/

Series 1 of the Mighty Boosh DVD is to be released on DVD in the autumn.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/

"I span the genres. I'm a genre spanner"
"No, you're just a spanner"

"Don't listen to this hippy shit. Remember you're a punk. Think of Johnny Thunders!"

guys you HAVE to go watch episode two on bbc.co.uk

it's the wierdest/best thing i've seen this year.

And it features Razorlight in the desert looking for 'the new sound'.

For the first twenty minutes or so, Episode Two is the

GREATEST

THING

EVER.

Interestingly, Howard Moon's production technique is quite similar to Michael Jones's.

is it my imagination or is that the girls from robots in disguise?

i miss the zooniverse, i miss the way bob fossil can't remember the names of the creatures and has to describe them.

i also have trouble watching an entire episode in one sitting because it's generally a good bit denser than anything else i watch, there's much more going on.

http://www.bbcshop.com/invt/ebbcdvd1553

I have seen the extras. So ner.

I love zookeepers, me.

As for the online version...I can't do it. It's very good but everything is so much funnier when I'm sitting next to Pam on the couch. Newsnight, World's Wildest Police Videos, Midsomer Murders...

Maybe I can DOWNLOAD the radio versions...

I hope they are better than IT STICKS OUT HALF A MILE.

You could do it at work, Mike. Man of your status.

‘you cut me open I'm made of blackjacks’
‘come on, vince, everyone knows you’re made of fruit salads’

Goths!

the yakkult thing made me roffle.

HERES YOUR FIRST SLICE OF CRUNCH!

GOTH JUICE!

Episode 3 is the funniest so far.

I think my big "problem" is with the guys (this is my "problem" with spaced and with peepshow (to a degree)), though. I liked the main one in nathan barley but, here, they are not very funny

"You're a punk! Think of Johnny Thunders!"

It is very funny.

I have started teaching my daughter the names of animals, Boosh-style.

That's more than enough to be going on with, surely? If I had two good ideas and five good jokes in the space of 30min, I'd be on fire.

I'm sure you'd have more than these ideas and jokes, in the time it takes to write 30 mins

A lot of the ideas are long-term ideas, though, so two good ideas in one episode would bo on top of the 46 good ideas that run through the two series, such as "talking monkeys".

I am downloading ep 2

they did an improvisation on the Breezeblock a while ago. included some songs and a lot of banter. it did tend to veer towards drunken humour about bodily functions but was ok for what it was.

lots of minor characters from series 1 popping up again or being fleshed out in series 2. which is nice. still reminds me of Spaced. maybe Spaced On Acid.

'Vince' in Nathan Barley was a bloke called 'Jones'. it was his flat that everyone used to crash at, the one with the DJ booth in the corner. (xpost FP)

Michael is right. It is a perk of the job. I enjoyed Silent Witness on Monday and Tuesday.

Thank you, Forest.

oh, I said that, already (1000 times)!

I saw some of series 1 and thought it was terrible and gave up on it

nick said this series was different and funny or that stevie had said that

Lest I paint myself as a grinning imbecile who laps up all TV comedy, here's what I think is really poor: The Smoking Room.

I have seen some BBC2...adverts, that have stephen fry and thingy in and are a bit...political, and they are rubbish!

I only came round to Spaced a bit. The one thing I did like about it was that it sold in about fifteen minutes on Amazon.

I liked the one epsiode of The Smoking Room that I subtitled. I even had a Len desktop wallpaper photo for a while. By the end I was convinced that Paula Wilcox is an interpretive genius. But, you know, it affects your brain after a while.

I haven't seen Absolute Power.

would you prefer sound or data?

I watched 10 minutes of "the smoking room" and the point of any of it was completely lost on me. It's no "Allo Allo" is it?

I suppose I would like sound really, but whatever's easiest for you.

The point of the Smoking Room is to further to channeling of BBC comedy output into 'the workplace', wherein 'the workplace' is shown to be inherently dull. Or something like that. I haven't quite finished formulating my theory. See also My Name is Neal Pearson or whatever it's called.

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went through all the moon segments last night but he really is a babbling fool and loses a lot in transcription. maybe i'll do mp3s and put them somewhere. 'Neil Armstrong, walking on my face...'

Still, at least the dvd of series one comes out on Monday...

I like the stickelback song from series 1 a lot.

Still, Episode 2 may be the funniest BritCom I have seen since Partridge.

Milky Joe wasn't great but the coconuts coming alive was terrific - I wish they'd remained mute though.

My favourite joke was the John Coltrane one at Howard's funeral.

HOODED FIGURE: LOOK DEEP INTO THE PARKER!

HOWARD MOON: Sorry?

HOODED FIGURE: LOOK DEEP INTO THE PARKER, THERE ARE THINGS THAT YOU COULD NEVER DREAM OF!

HOWARD MOON: Like what?

HOODED FIGURE: RUBIES!

HOWARD MOON: I've dreamt of rubies...

HOODED FIGURE: ERRR... LESBIAN HAM

'soup, super tasty soup, super spicy carrot and corriander, chili chowder, crouton, crouton, eat it uppa gaspatcho' err something or other...

neil armstrong, walking on my face:
http://home.clara.co.uk/koogy/Moon/moon1a.mp3

I downloaded the radio thing on soulseek Hari.

my username is 'moeop'

there are 10 others but i'm leaving the names as an exercise for the reader. hint: 2b doesn't exist.

i have the radio series on cd! if the breezeblock thing turns out lemme know though it sounds cool!

have you got the first series DVD? The 'history of the might boosh' feature is quite good.

"Captain cabinets trapped in cabinets, can he get out will he get out? Course he will!"

soup super tasty
soup super tasty
carrot and coriandeeeer
chili chowder!
crouton crouton
biscuit bits in a soupy broth
miso miso
fightin inna dojo
miso miso
oriental fighting in the land of SOUP!

You ever drunk baileys from a shoe?

i copied those moon recordings into the same directory as the rest of my mp3s and they occasionally pop up when im shuffling. they've even started showing up in my audioscrobbler logs.

series 1 dvds arrived yesterday but i didn't have time last night.

I have recently seen two films featurng "the other one" out of Little Britian.

i'm bursting with excitement.

[i]Wednesday 1/2/06 York Grand Opera House
Thursday 2/2/06 Derby Assembly Rooms
Friday 3/2/06 Wimbledon New Wimbledon
Saturday 4/2/06 Reading Hexagon

Wednesday 8/2/06 Catford Broadway Theatre
ON SALE http://www.broadwaytheatre.org.uk/
Thursday 9/2/06 Southampton Guildhall
Friday 10/2/06 Weston Playhouse
www.theplayhouse.co.uk
Saturday 11/2/06 Brighton Dome
Sunday 12/2/06 Coventry Warwick Arts Centre

Tuesday 14/2/06 Leicester De Montfort Hall
Wednesday 15/2/06 Northampton Deco
Thursday 16/2/06 Basingstoke Anvil
Friday 17/2/06 Birmingham Alexandra
Saturday 18/2/06 Oxford New Theatre

Tuesday 21/2/06 Peterborough Broadway Theatre
Wednesday 22/2/06 Sheffield City Hall
Thursday 23/2/06 Bradford St George's
Friday 24/2/06 Leeds City Varieties
Saturday 25/2/06 Leeds City Varieties
Sunday 26/2/06 Liverpool Royal Court

Tuesday 28/2/06 Tunbridge Wells Assembly Hall
Wednesday 1/3/06 Bournemouth Pavilion
Thursday 2/3/06 St Albans Alban Arena
Friday 3/3/06 Nottingham Playhouse
Saturday 4/3/06 Glasgow Pavilion

Monday 6/3/06 Buxton Opera House
Tuesday 7/3/06 Warrington Parr Hall
Wednesday 8/3/06 Aberystwyth Arts Centre
Thursday 9/3/06 WolverhamptonWulfren
Friday 10/3/06 Manchester Lowry
ON SALE www.thelowry.com / ticketmaster.co.uk
Saturday 11/3/06 Manchester Lowry
ON SALE www.thelowry.com / ticketmaster.co.uk
Sunday 12/3/06 Bristol Hippodrome

Thursday 16/3/06 Newcastle Tyne Theatre
Friday 17/3/06 Blackburn King George's Hall
Saturday 18/3/06 Cardiff St David's Hall
Sunday 19/3/06 Swansea Grand Theatre
Monday 21/3/06 Cheltenham Everyman
Tuesday 22/3/06 Stoke Victoria Hall
ON SALE - www.ticketmaster.co.uk

Friday 24/3/06 Plymouth Pavilion
Saturday 25/3/06 Barnstaple Queens Theatre
Sunday 26/3/06 Dartford Orchard[/i]

a lot of the tickets aren't on sale yet, they are expecting release of tickets sometime this week possibly.

here is the linky anyway: http://boosh.proboards53.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=1130258861

my sister and i have been watching this - lots of roffles!

I'm off to see them do a show in Islington on the 5th! Yay!

I've gone from thinking it was halfwit weak surrealism to thinking it's the most loveable show on the telly.

(Sorry about the paranoid Googleproofing; contracts have been lost and people fired for less...though the damage has already been done, obviously.)

And how many people were in the audience?

It was a very small theatre but it was full to capacity. I eneded up having to sit on the stairs there were so many people.

i'm pretty excited now.

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"he's a ballbag"

the thing that has made me laugh the most is the description of an elephant as 'the leg-faced man'.

Is it me or is Old Gregg the most overrated thing on there? His catchphrase is rubbish. "I'm Old Gregg!" really? Oh my sides!

Me too.

Is the guy who plays Naboo actually An Actor?

I like his Rob Newman-ness.

This is how I teach my daughter.

The radio series was on BBC Radio 7 in its entirety on Saturday night, perhaps you can "listen again" on their website.

I only listened to ten minutes because I didn't like it as much as the telly version and the skating was on. I would like it for commuting though.

"Michael's non-acting non-style gives the television series a distinctive feel of cynical indolence and many members of his family consider him to be a driving force behind the success of the show."

everything old gregg said is a catchphrase.

They are not playing in Ireland on this tour, which makes me sad. I love them so.

he is so RUBBISH!!!!!

He is so NOT!!!!!!

I'm never sure which is which out of Fielding and Barrett.

His favourite show is Fantasy Football and that is actually true.

I told her that I dislike it and that I think n fielding is so RUBBISH!!!!!

i dont fancy him, but i want to BE vince noir, just kinda

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/listenagain/saturday/

Both Fielding and Barrett are excellent comics, surrounded by a top-notch team.

Barrett is the clever one though, he does the drawings.

Just to clear it up once and for all. Julian Barratt is the taller one. The one with the moustache (mustache? I just realised that it's so long since I spelled that word, I've forgotten how to spell it). The one who was in Nathan Barley.

Noel Fielding is the pretty one with the good hair.

rjg's hatred of n fielding pains my heart.

Aw gee shucks, you guys ... oh wrong Fielding.

(RJG - how can you hate such a beautiful creature?)

I think Fielding is the world's first Gram Parsons comedian, which is something to be welcomed.

No, he really does have edgy hair.

I remember some years ago our Edward showing me a tape of some of Julian Barratt's stuff and saying what a pity it was that he was thinking of giving up the circuit because his agency kept sending him out on totally unsuitable gigs and that everyone thought it was a real shame because he was so great and funny and just, well, different. I almost cried laughing at his stuff even then, so I've always been really pleased to see him do well.

Even if I didn't like Nathan Barley. Please don't pelt me with clods for that.

Bless.

haha the ambient hutch.

yes, thanks for the tip, you. unfortunately i've only managed the first 4 and won't have chance to hear the rest before they are replaced. oh um.

ice-flow, nowhere to go...

:(

And it's true - Fielding's nose is awful.

I take back everything good I've said about these people.

It is interesting Koogybot that you choose to write it "Ice flow" as this was one of the major debates when it came to be subtitled. In the end it became "ice floe".

The songs in series two are so RUBBISH!

but series 2 has goths!

was disappointed by the commentaries, especially by bob fossil's comments. have been spoilt by the spaced commentaries i think.

I wasn't! It was an accident!

I have just watched the last epsiode, Milky Joe, which I thought was very good indeed, very funny. On a par with the first series.

"Giving you the eye?! Look, I made her eyes, I know which way they were looking."

5 out of 5 stars Pure Poncho, February 21, 2006
Reviewer: 12_tone_lizzie from Kentish Town Kentish Town
Two things make the Boosh unique among comedy greats. The first is its mad visual world, created entirely in studios and computers (the makers acknowledge the Wizard of Oz, but H. R. Pufnstuf would be nearer the mark). The second is the invincibly (pardon the pun) genial dynamic between the two leads. Sitcoms thrive on pretentious windbags, and Howard Moon far outdoes Mainwaring, Fawlty and Partridge; but in Vince Noir he has the most indulgently devoted foil since Eric & Ernie shared a bed. The existential scream behind those three windbags of the past is silenced under the poncho of a pure high.

THEN, YOU ARE DEAD INSIDE.

I can't say anything bad about them, really, because I tend to think that everything they touch is genius. But I do agree with Mandee that the radio show is a thing of beauty. It's much less structured and wanders all over the damn place, in a good way.

I also viewed Snuffbox and the most I can say about that is that it was... weird. I think I fancy Matt Berry a little, which is a disturbing thought.

in fact i quote some of them now, which is pretty obnoxious.

Bob Fossil is really great in the radio program. The songs are really good too. "Marry Me on the 'Morrow"? Wow, it's so good.

o christ, "two pints of lager ..." is on next. quick, where's the hammer?

: /

I think my favorite is CHARLIE, mostly because of the insane animation courtesy of N. Fielding.

Oh, JUNGLE is real good, too.

I should change mine, too. It's kinda gross and was SUPPOSED to be temporary.

i wasnt that into that one for some reason, but ive only seen it one time

If anything, my Boosh love has grown in the last couple of weeks since I bought the boxset. But I now think Series I is more inventive than Series II (although SII has better production values).

(God, it just got better).

Elsewhere I am "Shoes from the future", obv.

I think it's because my highlights have grown out.

At the moment, MILKY JOE is ahead!

Those coconuts were fantastic! I can't wait to watch it a second time!

Meet me on the Po Caff roof in 20 minutes!

I was really putting on the ritz with my Vince Noir impression at lunch a few weeks ago, and it was CONFUSING THE HELL out of one of my friends. He kept giving me a look like: who are you??

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Although it's more like the hair of Moon when he's stranded on Milky Joe's island.

He bloody wasn't. He was picking his nose at the 30 bus stop over the road, probably.

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OTM. I am a big fan of the greenfaced cockney psycho as well.

I haven't tried to act like either of them, but, my word, it's playing havoc with my dress sense.

THE HITCHER!

After the pub, The Pinefox and I went for a walk across east London and ended up at the real Turnpike House towerblock, which I had previously presumed was a mere figleaf of Bob Stanley's imagination.

Wasn't S2 cheaper to make, though? Alluded to in one of the extras. Perhaps even just plain stated. Can't recall.
(God, it just got better).

Yup, series two had a smaller budget and was mostly filmed in front of a projector screen. Quite amazing actually.

Nanageddon, The Hitcher, Tundra, Milky Joe, they're all good!

Don't run around ze house like in a little car!

It was so RUBBISH!

V.Vince.

they ARE elektro girls.

It seems a bit weird that they're still going.

that thread is pretty good.

i wonder how he feels, now that he looks more like napoleon dynamite, as opposed to one of the dudes in the proclaimers

Incidentally, this episode was not as good second time round, so the Biggie Shackleton episode is the winner overall.

good for you for sportin' the beret. its a massively underused head piece.

I can't get:
Trapped in a cabinet!
or
'the windy man, the long mover'
out of my head.

Baby Cow Productions has signed a two–year deal with US network NBC which will see comedies Saxondale and The Mighty Boosh remade across the pond.

Under the deal NBC will also work with the indie, co-founded by Steve Coogan, to develop new formats, with the first understood to be with British writer Alex Spiro on 30-minute pilot, Ben, about the richest man in the world.

Shelley McCrory, NBC's senior vice-president of comedy series, said she was a "huge fan" of Coogan's previous outings such as Alan Partridge and Paul Calf and hoped he might also star in future projects.

"We're always looking for distinctive characters and sensibilities - things that feel different but not alien," she added.

McCrory also highlighted the importance of finding the right American writers to work with Baby Cow.

"It's important to find an American writer who gets the essence of the characters and the show," she said.

Saxondale is Steve Coogan's most recent comic creation for BBC2 about Tommy Saxondale, an ex-roadie turned pest controller. The Mighty Boosh, a BBC3 comedy, is about zookeepers Howard Moon and Vince Noir, as they battle with authority figures, Zoo-Niverse owner Dixon Bainbridge and his manager Bob Fossil.

They can't even spell Zooniverse properly. Anyone would think they hadn't had a departmental debate about it.

heresy

Meanwhile, the DVD cover for A Cock and Bull Story is really awful, as if they really didn't want to sell any.

the frisson or weird friction of the show, what gives it traction, seems to me to be that it's about two "normal" sitcom characters - the two leads, with their pitch-perfect repartee and quickly definable types - have landed into a strangers-with-candy style weirdoville (the electroclash fancy-boy seems to straddle the two worlds actually - he's recognizably human and normal yet has a sympatico thing with the weirdos that will forever be denied to moon) ... my problem so far is that unlike strangers with candy i am finding only a few of the weirdos very funny. the american boss, mr. fossil, for instance is i think an enormous waste of lines and time - his part could add so much but doesn't

also, i think this is a show that upon multiple viewings, becomes funnier. bob fossil also becomes infinitely funnier on the radio program.

I have still only seen a couple of episodes from either series.

I think this is spot on. I've really grown fond of Saxondale, actually.

I might need to invest in that live DVD.

(I really like Jonathan Ross's show, oddly)

I would buy it for a fiver.

if he's been there more than two years there would be an overlap, yes.

OTM. just discovered them through their piece on the Secret Policeman's Ball and am now consuming the S1 and S2 dvds. must admit am v. v. v. disappointed. When paired up and shooting the shit they are ridiculously awesome, funny and bizarre and fulla' chemistry. but i find the show's lame fucking plots (not to mention zookeeper-american-guy) almost unwatchable. I like the fantastic and the absurd (and prefer Family Guy to The Simpsons, these days,) but the aforementioned green guy playing slap bass = yaaaaaaaawn. I was literally falling asleep in the Nan apocalypse one.

-- wogan lenin (doglati...), November 21st, 2006. (dog latin) (later)

fixed

So I've seen Boosh, Barley and listened to the radio show. What else is there to see? I need more.

I thought maybe they were on some other shows I don't know about. I'll check out the standup, thanks.

That's what they should be aiming for - Don MacLean and Peter Glaze for the '00s.

the Red Door episode of The IT Crowd...

Barratt is older than me, which I find as comforting as the fact that Daniel Craig is a little bit older than me too. Bond/Moon may even be older than you, PJM.

xpost - so Fielding was the Judder Man?

Yet.

How old is Naboo?

I know this is going to sound bizarre, but I've met people who were born in the 80s!

Gruesome New Years Eve Twosome: Courtney Love
and Noel Fielding, watching The Killers in LA.

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

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My girlfriend says I frighten her. When she told me this, about six months ago, I was horrified. We seldom argue and when we do I'm never threatening. I've never been violent in my life. But, she said, when I'm in a mood, she's often terrified. What seems like a mere sulk to me is to her a rage so powerful it becomes almost a living thing. It swamps the flat, pushes the air from the rooms and bends out the walls. I was so confused when she made this claim that I simply discounted it. It just made no sense. It was as if someone had said to me, 'So how does it feel to be made entirely of onions?' Nonsense! So I forgot about it. Until - for some reason - now. I'm about five minutes into a three-day intensive anger-management course, which I'm attending for purely journalistic reasons, to see if schemes such as these have substance or are merely get-out-of-jail cards for toxic celebrities, road-ragers and parole-hungry psychotics.

Goth Juice. And also.

I've been really enjoying Matt Berry and Rich Fulcher in Snuffbox lately. They're just as talented, if not more so than the Boosh boys.

i gotta get into snuffbox.

snuffbox has its moments. has its lows, also. but the funny shit is FUNNNNY!

Was there a third series?

its in production :-D

Ah right.

Will this one get a "promotion"?

i duno but it takes place in "a shop"

They're ripping off Black Books, obviously!

Better to rip off "Open All Hours"

revive. (sorry ed)

starts on thursday. they are currently all over the media and yet the show still only premieres on bbc3.

it starts on thursday? WOW

koogs : The Mighty Boosh Season Three, for example , why must we fear the new?

You people are all uniformly awful.

I am so excited.

pot, kettle:

The Mighty Boosh TV programme

8)

actually, ed raises a good point in his series 2 bump - it's available on the web beforehand.

here, in fact: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/

the only ep i've ever seen is the 'Old Greg' one, which still makes me sort of die inside every time i think about it. i don't even remember the context i watched it in, tho-- i think my british friend brought it back with her?

Old greg is not the best, it may even be the worst episode. Check out the priest and the beast or milky joe for better roffles.

Damnit, can someone write a mobile browser killfile. The spider gets to far up the side of the bath for comfort in here.

Old Greg is great but then again, I think all of them are pretty great. I'd have to say Milky Joe and nanageddon are my favs.

I fear the 3rd series. Mind you, I feared the second series and that was okay. It's just been supplanted in my brain by Snuffbox, which does similar things to Boosh but so much better IMO.

^nah

^yah (NB i have never seen snuffbox)

simple set-up becomes surreal! uptight moustache man so insecure he pretends nothing is amiss! small detail from beginning of show returns during contrived resolution of admittedly nonsensical plot! HOORAY IT'S... the maaaaaaghteh boooosh

Snuffbox is (was) completely excellent

So listening to these guys on Radio 1 (first full exposure to them since I gape-mouthed watched an episode of their first BBC2 series wondering how fucking gash a "comedy" show could be)... they're bipolar, right? And the show just films them during mania? Because what other need is there for two bent-faced fucks running around saying random words in "silly" voices for 30 minutes?

people like them, they really really like them.

It was the other day, when in one of those "History of Channel 4" shows they were talking about how great "The 11 O'Clock Show" was because "it launched the careers of Ricky Gervais and Sasha Baron Cohen" that I realised that all British comedians should be culled.

This show tries too hard. Way too hard.

Worst things about Britain:

3. Kate Nash
2. Conservative Party
1. Mighty Boosh

is dom the only hater here?

The Mighty Boosh is really funny. But it isn't cynical which tends to rub cynics up the wrong way. Tough.

There's nothing cynical about comedy focus groupped to within an inch of its life?

It has its moments. Usually only one or two per show though.

There's nothing cynical about comedy focus groupped to within an inch of its life?

very cynical.

talking about how great "The 11 O'Clock Show" was because "it launched the careers of Ricky Gervais and Sasha Baron Cohen"

Now, that's cynical. Or do I mean revisionist?

Actually, just make that plain "wrong"

It also launched the "career" of Ian Lee

MILKY JOE IS PRETTY FUCKIGN AWES DUDE

That was awesome!

I almost cried with joy when the Hitcher showed up, and then laughed so hard i dropped my cider (true story!)

Maybe not the funniest episode ever, but i think the best. Absolutely insane from start to finish. Good song too! I'll be singing about eels all day tomorrow.

It was nice to see Tony Harrison again.

i really like tMB but that was piss poor.

I don't like it that much. I think mainly because this hipstery girl (who was quite a deal younger than me) I was dating really liked it and kind of forced me into it. And she was a bit of an idiot, as it turned out.

It has its moments. Usually only one or two per show though.

pretty much how i feel

i really like tMB but that was piss poor.

I just can't parse this. It was utterly typical, it worked right from the off, it was familiar enough but new enough, the structure was probably stronger than normal - what didn't you like (or what did you think was missing)?

cutty have you not noticed me slagging this show off at every turn??

i have to say i saw the trailer for the new series and it looks like a quantum leap in terms of production quality -- it looks like they were all like "we want to look as good as dr. who"

So that's where the money for World Service has gone

... that and a third series of Tittytittybangbang

Every 16-year-old Noel Fielding fucks, the BBC announce another £2million worth of cuts

is dom the only hater here?

-- cutty, Thursday, November 15, 2007 4:06 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

no. unlikely coalition:
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dom, tracer, and me

We're the new Cluster Gang

i cannot believe tittybangbang is still on the air!!? someone must have compromising photos of someone else, i can think of no other explanation

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I like it but hate Fielding if that counts.

i mean, mighty boosh is pretty awful but at least it's competent

Tittybangbang is part-written by Bob Mortimer, and I don't think I've ever seen a greater fall from grace in comedy. Even when Peter Cook was shoeshine boy to Joan Rivers, at least he was doing it on a major channel and not some digital backwater

See I feel some Mortimerism in it that's why I don't hate.

it feels so airless and cheerless, i just imagine the director saying "cut" and everyone looking at the ground and feeling awful

^^^ New ILE slogan

It's what you get when comedy sketch shows are performed entirely by "actors". Not "comedy actors", which was what, say, Ronnie Barker was, but just "actors". It's why the Catherine Tate show is so bland as well.

Yep, that sounds about right

I liked it - but Noel Fielding needs a good bald patch to sort him out...

> So that's where the money for World Service has gone

observer article i was reading yesterday suggested there wasn't any influx of money for this new series, the budget stayed pretty much the same.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,,2193898,00.html

I ask how the rest of filming went. Fielding pulls a face: 'It was atrocious.' Barratt smiles benevolently at his partner: 'It was good but it was hard, the hardest yet. Although it was the third series, there was no more money. We seem to have stretched goodwill from the crew to breaking point.' Fielding hugs his battered doctor's bag to his chest: 'Until you get ratings, the BBC doesn't understand. They came to see us live last winter, saw everyone screaming and said: "It's like the Beatles. It's amazing! You're getting less money!" The fact is, we will never be as big as Little Britain. Having said all this, the BBC never interferes, which is something.'

thought last night was just ticking over with not much happening. the moon wasn't very funny either. was one great line, but i forget what it was... still tons better than lead balloon though.

The new episode was terribly poor. I think going on tour and getting the full Rocky Horror response may messed them up forever.

I liked it - but Noel Fielding needs a good bald patch prison lifer to sort him out...

Foxy Knoxy looks like she could be a Mighty Boosh fan.

I gurgled like a train last night. I'm often left a bit cold by the weirdy surreal supporting cast, but the central dynamic between Fielding and Barrett is a seam they can mine to my seemingly endless pleasure.

Barrett getting taunted about his face, graffiti and square merchandising was a terrific example last night. I think I laughed hardest at Fielding's "there's no smoke without fire" line. I absolutely loved the absurdity of that being applied to the obscene graffiti and then Barrett somehow losing the argument by placing all his eggs in the weak smoke-machine counterexample.

(basket)

the whole 'imagine you're out in the wild' 'i've never really been out of shoreditch'... conversation was good. grasshoppers line was the one i was thinking of though.

most of the magic carpet conversations as well. and saturn = bjorn borg.

Oh yeah, the grasshoppers put down was perfect.

Mark C, too forced, too contrived, too far up their own arses, i reckon. crucially just not funny IMO. the whole idea of having naboo and his magical cronies go off on a stag weekend is pretty indicative of the fault imo: those characters have only shown up once before, so far, you can't have them do something like that yet - it's like running before you can walk. i only laughed at the student loans bit although i did enjoy (but not laugh at) the performance of the song even though the song itself was like an awful piss-take of a ridiculously surreal boosh song. the line, re New Rave, "elements of the past and the future combining to make something not quite as good as either" brought a smile though.

also they really need to get rid of that american guy, he stinks.

Yeah he's always been the weakest link.

He was the best thing about the first series, but now you're right.

Stag weekend was tops though. I can't get enough of Saboo and Tony Harrison bickering.

american guy - so bad

I loved the line about the lead singer of The Horrors having a picnic in Bethnal Park cemetary.

Well at least their humour isn't Londoncentric

boosh haters will watch and post on this thread entire season

sorry, series

I don't hate them!

cutty i may post but i doubt i will be watching, there's too much other good TV

Good internal narrative consistency this episode

I enjoyed it, the first one was a bit weird a little too harsh on Howard to be comfortable.

Much better than the trailer promised, even crap american guy had some lols.

I'm already confused by watching repeats and the preview on bbcweb.

the line, re New Rave, "elements of the past and the future combining to make something not quite as good as either" brought a smile though.

Yeah saw it last night and this was the one literal LOL. I really like Rich Fulcher and will probably defend him beyond endurance if needed, although I'm not actually planning to tune in to this series so much as try and catch repeats if they're on. Could def do with having its budget slashed by, say, 98%, yes

this week's was very funny. Terminal Margarets, the running 'throwing metal objects at people's faces' gag. Really good.

i didn't rate it this week at all, i really enjoyed last weeks, but they seemed to struggle this week.

Last week's worked better for me - I felt it was a slow start this week, but did get better. The spirit of jazz has a back story! I wonder if we can expect Noel to play a highly unpleasant, heavily made-up baddie every week? It reminds me of special guest stars (i.e. Bob Hope) pitching up on 70s variety shows.

He was great as the baddie.

I fell asleep about 5 minutes into it, not a good sign.

Much better than ep 1, says the SE19 panel.

you get one or two funny moments but i think this show is pretty weak overall - poor unfunny songs, boringly Camditch-centric, could be darker/weirder than is (tho i really liked Howard going into Milky Joe's hat and the Voodoo Scat virus altho it was a bit Papa Lazarou), too student-wacky too often.

i thought the episode was extremely poor. they've overreached themselves and you can see the seams straining to accommodate it. viz, moments like naboo looking into the eyes of vince "hurry up howard, you've only got a few minutes 'til you get big again" or, just a few minutes later, "stab him with the pin vince, it's full of horrible diseases" - that's right, remind us of some crap joke from the beginning of the show to try and tie up the mess you made of the plot. there are moments of explication taking the place of actual storyline throughout. even jokes like the "stationary village" are stretched way past breaking point.

plus, you know, that american guy...

> tho i really liked Howard going into Milky Joe's hat

the hitcher. milky joe was the coconut (see flickr)

There are 'some crap jokes', but for me it's the inventive touches I like, such as Vince brain cell lusting after Vince receptionist.

i know you only get six shows a series so you are apt to scrutinize even the shows you DON'T LIKE--but seriously, what are you negators expecting to get out of this show?

I liked the first two series, and it's occasionally good for a chuckle even now after watching it loads. Maybe I've become too cynical and the comedic landscape has moved over the last few years. Or maybe now they're rock stars they've done too much coke and think that recycling old jokes with no structure or plot is funny.

ps haven't seen the 2nd episode

but seriously, what are you negators expecting to get out of this show?

fair question. expectations are pretty low for UK comedy these days but there's viewer complacency as well, in my case. it's a bit like continuing to watch the club you've supported since childhood even tho they're now in a relegation battle but hope springs eternal.

You could always watch that Jack Dee one if you want jokes...

Lead Balloon just looks really dull. It's a hard balance to strike.

Lead balloon was shit last series. I don't know why I'm amazed that a shit show gets a second series, but I am.

BBC policy unless you are Jessica Hynes

i thought i'd missed this last night ... turns out that when i came staggering in from the pub at midnight i somehow remembered to tape the repeat. funny: all i remember is eating a burger and shouting abuse at jools holland.

"eels" was the first episode of the boosh i'd ever sat down to watch properly -- every other time it's been something i've caught when flicking through channels -- and i thought it was joyous; so good i watched it twice. but then i guess that any elements of repetition/tiredness/whatever will be kinda lost on me, 'cos it's all new and fresh.

I don't know why I'm amazed that a shit show gets a second series

Tittybangbang is on its THIRD series

i guess bringing back old characters is repetition?! i like the when they reference old jokes. it's not laziness it's conceptual continuity.

i'm a fan, i just thought the two shows so far this series were pish.

lol cutty zappa ref

I didn't laugh once at the 2nd episode. Perhaps it's me, sitting on my own a little drunk.

i laughed plenty. really enjoyed it. mrs fiendish didn't like the first ep very much but loved this one.

This programme really seems to depend 100% on the individual viewer's sense of humour, much more than most.

and indeed the individual's mood ... it's not something i'd watch if i was in a foul mood and wanted cheered up, because i imagine it woud only serve to annoy me further.

saw the third episode on the bbc3 website - it's the first episode I've watched that I haven't found very good at all.

So I've watched this for the first time ever over the weekend. I watched season 2 first, then season 1.

Loved it!
Love the songs, particularly "trapped in a box by a cockney nutjob"

I think I'll wait until this third season has finished before tracking down the downloads, digitial bbc repeat schedules confuse the hell out of me.

The first episode I ever seen was the 'punk/jazz' one...

It was on at 02:00 and I saw it while not being tired enough for bed. Or at least I though I wasn't. I turned off the TV and was going up, when I thought to myself "hey, I was watching that!"

It reminds me more of the Goodies than anything else, really.

next grozart correct. I just watched that third episode as well, it had none of the qualities that i loved from the first two seasons.

and the songs were really weak

Only after about 20 minutes did I actually laugh at this episode.

Third episode excellent, just like the previous two.

Fell asleep again. Always seems to happen during the animated parts.

I laughed for the first 20 minutes. Ending was weak.

"and that's why I can't go for that"

painfully predictable but still prised a smirk from me. i'm just happy to hear that song on TV.

the 'crimping' was 95% embarrassingly bad (to the extent that i left the room during the 4-man crimp)

i laughed during the 20 minutes immediately following this programme.

"We wanted to make comedy for people who listen to The Strokes"

Noel Fielding, cultural shift observer.

I was a massive fan of the 1st 2 series, and really enjoyed the 1st episode of this series, but it just doesn’t work. I will still watch the series, but I do really hope it gets better

It's patchy. Sometimes it's very good, sometimes you wonder why they bothered. See also: Goodies, Python, NTNON, ABoFaL, Absolutely, etc, etc.

When is that quote from, Dom? Last week? 2001? Who cares?

the 'crimping' was 95% embarrassingly bad (to the extent that i left the room during the 4-man crimp)

That's kind of a triumph in a 'comedy of embarassment" sense. Ricky Gervais would be proud to have that effect.

liked last night, the throwaway bits especially. bollywood lollipop man. bob fossil. the magpie's s&m outfit. GARY NUMAN.

crimping bad, yes.

god i haven't even seen this in a few years and it was lame then, but "bollywood lollipop man. bob fossil. the magpie's s&m outfit. GARY NUMAN" tells me that this can't possibly be funny.

I'm astounded at how the programme's profile has been raised this series. My flatmate who shows very little interest in contemporary culture said to me yesterday 'I love the Boosh' - [well you must be into it if you're using an abbreviation nickname] - 'some people just don't get it but I love it, man'.

It's people like your flatmate who are responsible for the social thermometer zing cru banging on about how it's so not funny any more man.

The big difference in this series so far is that some of the jokes, rather than being startlingly original (if always successful) are based on repeated themes, such as "and that's why I can't go for that". It's a different kind of funny, but the people who only live for the originality are getting put off. Personally the familarity mostly works for me, makes it warmer and more intimate while still being lolworthy. Where there's a bit of a danger is in the repetition of gags that aren't classics - there's only so far you can go with Howard's small eyes (and after last night's squint-off I think we may have already got there).

god i haven't even seen this in a few years and it was lame then, but "bollywood lollipop man. bob fossil. the magpie's s&m outfit. GARY NUMAN" tells me that this can't possibly be funny

Well duh. Do you really expect surreal humour precised on an internet message board to work comedically?

no, OBVIOUSLY.

i was making a cheap shot.

OBVIOUSLY.

bob fossil is unfunny in any jacket

It's people like your flatmate who are responsible for the social thermometer zing cru banging on about how it's so not funny any more man.

good point

bob fossil is funny, you don't "get" him ;)

try watching snuff box tracer!

Bib Fossil is very funny.

are based on repeated themes, such as "and that's why I can't go for that". It's a different kind of funny, but the people who only live for the originality are getting put off.

this joke is okay (better the first time) but is not helped by bob fossil's tedious dancing and attempts to be sexy.

His dancing is funny. "Attempts to be sexy" lol

the ripoff names were also funny. the flighty zeus. lance dior. harold boom.

the moon hasn't been partic. funny this time though.

um, just me then.

yeh, snuffbox ftw. Fossil is terrific in that. "I don't know if I need to piss or puke but I need a piss."

ha, his real name is rich fulcher

So, 'Naboo' is Noel Fielding's brother. What, is he fourteen or something?

His entry in IMDB has him as:

Genres:Comedy / Fantasy / Musical / Short

I love Michael Fielding. I think I read somewhere that he's in his mid 20's. I once got a myspace bulletin that he was DJing somewhere and was so sad I couldn't go. He's one of the best parts of the show. My favorite Naboo bit ever is when Dixon Bainbridge asks if he's in a shamanic trance and it turns out he's just listening to Fleetwood Mac. Naboo = love.

the best part of that joke is when he asks if its "rumours" and naboo says "no, tusk"

then bainbridge gives him a WTF look

I liked the third episode quite a lot. Vince being depressed was moving! Also, Bob Fossil as Velvet Onion owner funny again!

Also, them being tricked by bizarro copyists into their crowd-displeasing mediaeval act.

Also, Howard Moon in sailor suit losing heart with "Nylon Admiral!".

I do like comedy doppelgangers - like Ted and Dougal's rivals in Eurovision and the other bar in Cheers.

On the other hand, I felt about this episode a bit like I felt about that Chris Walken/Fat Boy Slim video where he's hoofing round the hotel. Hitherto, Walken dancing had been this lovely little unacknowledged grace note in his films; making it the focus of a video felt wrong in some way. Same with the crimping episode. It seemed a bit desparate, like they are devouring their previous work in the search for laffs. I bet they do a whole episode about the moon, soon.

it did seem to be this series in a nutshell, self cannibalism instead of new ideas. but, as i said above, the throwaway stuff was great.

(speaking of walken / fat boy slim, i saw the 'funny little frog' video at the weekend...)

fourth episode wasn't too bad, i only saw the first episode for the first time over the weekend and actually thought it was one pretty good altho the 'plot' was stupid even for this programme.

the punk episode was crap apart from stationary village.

is 'electro boy' the best song they've ever done?

and i think we've all had enough of the moon yeah? should have just left it at being a second series feature.

the trouble with the third episode was that I can't stand that 'crimping' anyway, and they go and make a whole twenty minutes based on the topic. gah!

'urine in the face' OMG LOL

actually i just watched the first episode (s3) again and it could be one of my faves.

And does Barret slip into his 'Dan' character whenever he does interviews in real life? he doesn't seem to be fond of any kind of limelight does he.

the best part of that joke is when he asks if its "rumours" and naboo says "no, tusk"

-- cutty, Friday, 30 November 2007 16:48 (4 days ago) Link

I never understood the joke here. Is there a joke?

The only thing that really made me laugh in s3e3 was the way Vince said "Crimping? But I thought that was something secret only you and I did, at night-times".

its a fleetwood mac joke, noob.

i mean if you don't know the context of rumours and tusk in fleetwood mac's catalog, then i guess it's not much of a joke. get with it.

best song and episode is the nana-geddon one

No no.

I have both those albums, but I still don't understand the joke. Please to explain?

rumours = huge success
tusk = not success on release but championed by hipsters as the better album

naboo = listening to tusk
bainbridge = WTF?

seriously grozart, come on

i've only ever heard Rumours but even I got that joke.

see all those wires and stuff in there, next grozart? that's why your robot never worked.

I've never heard either album and I even got the joke.

rumours = huge success
tusk = not success on release but championed by hipsters as the better album

naboo = listening to tusk
bainbridge = WTF?

seriously grozart, come on

sorry, i assumed there was more to it than that.

it's the look on bainbridge's face that makes it funny

he so psyched at first, "oh, RUMOURS?"

i think i ought to watch that scene again as i never really noticed that. he and fulcher are brilliant in snuffbox.

i think i got confused when i watched the commentary once and noel fielding says "that's one of the great fleetwood mac jokes", which left me wondering whether it was a proper joke or just a funny incident.

yeah and he offers naboo a "kit kat" which also makes me LOL

oh yeah. he's almost a one-man joke (viz: pronunciation of "ordinARy boys" in IT Crowd) but it hasn't become old yet. Anyone heard Matt Berry's album, "Opium"? It's actually very impressive. Lots of leitmotifs and coy hamminess.

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/6716/worsttvhe0.png

I don't have either album, and I haven't even heard the joke!

Noel Fielding is definitely going to be the biggest comedic influence on British guys aged 15-21 for the foreseeable.

nuclear winter plz

I'm about to declare Jihad on all British comedy, I think.

Angelo's is shit as well, which is annoying because that dude was lulz in The Armando Ianucci Shows and I'm Alan Partridge

Armstrong and Miller?

if you can get past the horrendous title sequence, A&M will give you seconds of fun

like maybe twice as many as Omid Djalili

Armstrong & Miller is officially funny

Omid Djalili is good when he's doing his "lol jews" stuff.

i haven't been following a&m too closely, but they're easily funnier than the mighty boosh.

my favourite a&m sketch was always the porn mags in the woods.

I still think he looks like David Wilkie.

i just had to text my mate, "did i dream this or did i sing to you last night a song about 'eels', whilst pretending to play a piano?"

"yes, actually you were"

hmm...the writing is a bit lazy in the last couple of episodes

Okay, definite dip in tonight's show.

ach, i laughed. tony harrison does it for me every time.

As someone here wrote back in 2004:

I like it best when the two leads are just chatting bullshit - lots of the wordplay and imagery is very funny. It generally gets pretty piss poor when it veers into OTT surrealism, much of which seems extremely strained.

Last night's episode was the best of this series I thought. Who played the fox? Was it Fulcher or Barratt? Admittedly they are rehashing old jokes without adding very much else to them "Turn my back on you", "this is an outrage" "At night times" etc... It also feels as though Noel and Julian's characters are becoming too archetypal, whereas in the first and maybe second series they were a bit more subtle.

I did like how Noel's character is starting to have a bit of a dark side to him. Whereas before he was always the Roadrunner character, his selfishness and vanity are starting to backfire on him. Similarly, Howard Moon came up on top in this episode for the first time.

The way it was filmed made me think it was Noel Fielding as the fox. Never in the same frame together, and there was no flow in the dialog between them, like they were being filmed separately.

On Jonathan Ross, Barrett said he was the Crack Fox (worst Boosh villain ever?).

The fox thing was just embarrassing. They need to stop developing catchphrases...
Did you see 'Never mind the Buzzcocks'? Noel Fielding is team captain at the moment. Simon Amstell called him on his lazy use of random 'crazy' words as the basis of the surreal bit of their comedy... I lolled.

I liked the Rubbish Fox! I also liked the Ali G-style shaman too. I know this kind of character's been done to death, but I couldn't stop laughing at "Me mum's cooking spaghetti 'oops. Do you like spaghetti 'i'oops?" *looks over his shoulder* "Yeah they're well good in't they?"

Does Noel play the evil green cockney and tony harrison? if so he plays them very well.

"Did you enjoy that boy, cockney urine all over yer face? That was a bad time for you wasn't it boy"

Yup. I have no idea who the Ali G shaman is, though.

the evil cockney ("the hitcher", i think) was fucking genius. more of that. really, this series has been eels >>>>>>>>>>>> all the rest, but eels >>>>>>>>>>>> pretty much everything else i've seen this year, so hey. (although i will stand by S02E01 of the IT crowd as a gold-plated comedy classic).

the fox was julian barratt, definitely: couple of "sirs" in there, too, which i assumed were just to give it away. either that or he was getting confused :/

he was a variant on the hitcher, basically it looked like they just couldn't be arsed with the make-up this time. It was just Fieldings with a polo eye and a green face.

I love the eels episode, something magically eerie about the dancing girl coming out of the hat scene.

"Did you dance with her?"
"No sir"
"course you did, we all did"

i'm glad you're as freaked/spooked/delighted by that episode as me!

It was just Fieldings with a polo eye and a green face

heh, "just" :)

oh man i've seen eels three times already but these quotes are still killing me