152-457: The Mighty Boosh is a British comedy troupe featuring comedians Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding . Developed from three stage shows, The Mighty Boosh , Arctic Boosh (1999) and Autoboosh (2000) as well as a six-episode radio series , it has since spanned a total of 20 television episodes for BBC Three which aired from 2004 to 2007, and two live tours of the UK, as well as two live shows in
304-480: A 6 part dark comedy mini series which follows the eccentric and dysfunctional members of the Flowers family. He reprised the role for the second series in 2018. He plays the title character in the film Mindhorn , which he co-wrote with Simon Farnaby . It was released through Netflix on 12 May 2017. In 2024, Barratt appeared in series 2 of Extraordinary as a special powers counsellor. The lead character had
456-572: A Clue , on which Garden and Brooke-Taylor are regular panellists. Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie worked on the television comedy Doctor in the House : they co-wrote most of the first series and all of the second. Garden also appeared as a television interviewer in the series, in the episode titled "On the Box". Between 1981 and 1983 Garden and Oddie wrote, but did not perform in, a science fiction sitcom called Astronauts for Central and ITV . The show
608-709: A Daft Noise for Christmas ". "The Funky Gibbon" was their biggest hit, reached number 4 in the UK Singles Chart . The Goodies made an appearance on Top of the Pops with the song. They also performed it during the Amnesty International show A Poke in the Eye (with a Sharp Stick) . "The Funky Gibbon" became a favourite in the United States on Dr. Demento 's radio shows and reached number 79 on
760-505: A Fortnight (with Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Jonathan Lynn ), before Brooke-Taylor, Garden, and Oddie worked on the late-1960s TV show Broaden Your Mind (of which only about ten minutes survives). The original BBC television series ran from November 1970 to February 1980 on BBC 2 , with 67 half-hour episodes and two forty-five-minute Christmas specials. The series was created by Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie, and originally co-written by all three, with Oddie providing
912-508: A Second Helping was released on Region 2 in February 2005. Series 9 (including the Xmas special) was released on Region 2 as The Goodies – The Complete LWT Series on 26 March 2007 and a fourth volume The Goodies ... At Last Back for More, Again was released on region 2 in 2010 as well as a DVD box set containing all four volumes to celebrate 40 years of The Goodies . In 2004, an episode of
1064-481: A bit". Fielding also made drawings that formed a basis for the characters costumes and make-up in the Mighty boosh TV show. Regular Boosh collaborators include Michael Fielding , Rich Fulcher , Dave Brown , Nigel Coan , Richard Ayoade , Matt Berry and Ivanna Zorn. In 2002 during a live run through of a Mighty Boosh pilot Richard Ayoade played adventurer Dixon Bainbridge , but Matt Berry replaced him in
1216-418: A bit". Fielding also made drawings that formed a basis for the characters costumes and make-up in the Mighty boosh TV show. Regular Boosh collaborators include Michael Fielding , Rich Fulcher , Dave Brown , Nigel Coan , Richard Ayoade , Matt Berry and Ivanna Zorn. In 2002 during a live run through of a Mighty Boosh pilot Richard Ayoade played adventurer Dixon Bainbridge , but Matt Berry replaced him in
1368-408: A black-and-white film recording, is presented in colour from a 625-line low-band broadcast standard PAL VT recording, made for training purposes, which has had the low-level colour boosted. (The original Australian DVD release, The Goodies – A Tasty Second Helping (2 disc set), and The Goodies – A Second Helping: 4 tasty serves (1 Disc), featured the b/w telerecording of this episode.) In Canada,
1520-607: A box set titled The Goodies: The Complete BBC Collection . This set contains every single episode from 1970-1980 (excepting the lost, original version of "Kitten Kong") and, as a bonus feature, a one-hour edit of the show "An Audience with the Goodies", hosted by Stewart Lee and filmed live at Leicester Square in June 2018. In late September 2022 the TV channel 'That's TV' (numbered 183 on SKY TV listings and 65 on Freeview) started showing
1672-508: A comedian mate. But I watched a lot of stand-up at uni – people like Mark Lamarr, Sean Hughes, Eddie Izzard, just standing on a stage doing these phenomenal routines. And I could see how you could do it. So I started doing it myself, and I was so shocked when it worked. I remember one time I completely forgot what I was about to say, and I just ran out of the venue." It has also been commented that this occurred "...during his first standup sketch at Reading University..." and that he "...ran through
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#17328010535111824-477: A commemorative booklet ( The Goodies: The Tasty Box ). This collection contains the same 16 episodes as the original two DVD releases but with additional material such as commentaries on several episodes and the original scripts of some episodes in PDF format. Picture quality has been greatly improved using digital restoration techniques and the episode " Come Dancing ", which was originally thought to only have survived as
1976-585: A crush on him and they shared a kiss after having described him as a DILF to her friend Carrie. He also appeared in the miniseries Knuckles as Jack Sinclair. From 3 June to 9 July 2011, Barratt played the Mayor in a production of Nikolai Gogol 's classic comedy The Government Inspector at the Young Vic Theatre . In October 2012, he returned to the stage in Lucy Kirkwood 's play NSFW at
2128-463: A drawer." and in 2014 it was commented that "The pair have written two film scripts in the past, though neither made it to production. One was a "Rocky Horror Picture Show type thing," according to Fielding, in which Barratt played a character who has woken up believing himself to be the last man on earth. The other was an Arctic adventure – 'because we always liked the Arctic'." The first 8-part series
2280-405: A film, and then we thought alright we'll do a live show. We didn't really know how to do a live show we thought we'd just learn, and then we sort of... ...we did a radio show, we did a TV show, we never quite got around to doing a film..." In 2008 it was also commented that "A film is the first thing we ever wanted to do, so we've always come up with ideas and stuck them in a drawer." and in 2014 it
2432-412: A film, really,... ...we wanted to do a film, and then we thought alright we'll do a live show. We didn't really know how to do a live show we thought we'd just learn, and then we sort of... ...we did a radio show, we did a TV show, we never quite got around to doing a film..." In 2008 Fielding commented that "A film is the first thing we ever wanted to do, so we've always come up with ideas and stuck them in
2584-625: A frustrated magazine writer, in the Channel 4 media satire Nathan Barley , and appeared in the surrealistic black comedy series Asylum alongside Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson (who wrote and starred in Spaced ). The character of Brian Topp in Spaced was written for Barratt, but eventually went to Mark Heap . Barratt played Jackson, a musician, in How Not to Live Your Life . He starred in
2736-578: A giant penis and a whale respectively. In 1998, they took The Mighty Boosh to the Edinburgh Festival , recruiting fellow comedian Rich Fulcher, whom the pair had met while working on Unnatural Acts . The show won the Perrier Award for Best Newcomer. During their residency at North London's Hen and Chickens Theatre the following year, they built up a cult following, introducing new characters whilst developing old ones. In 1999,
2888-639: A gorilla living at the "Zooniverse". This series had an even looser setting as the four characters leave the confines of the flat in every episode, travelling in their van to a variety of surrealistic environments, including Naboo's home planet "Xooberon". Series three started in November 2007, still set in Dalston, but this time the foursome are selling 'Bits & Bobs' in their shop, the Nabootique. Their adventures and outings in this series focused more on
3040-538: A half-hour television pilot of the same name, and Barratt has commented that "...we wanted to get on TV but it'd been a lot of trouble because they thought it was eh, the scripts we sort of gave them were sort of like massive epic adeventures that sounded like it would cost them a million pounds to make so they said this isn't, I dont know how this is going to work on stage, well actually what happened is...", with Fielding adding "We wrote it for Channel 4 originally...", and Barratt replying "[we spoke to them]...before we'd done
3192-496: A magic forest..." Michael Fielding and Richard Ayoade both performed with the Mighty Boosh in 2002 during a live run through of a Mighty Boosh pilot. Richard Ayoade played adventurer Dixon Bainbridge , but Matt Berry replaced him in the first television series, since Ayoade was under contract with Channel 4 . Ayoade returned in the second and third series as a belligerent shaman named Saboo . The name "Mighty Boosh"
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#17328010535113344-417: A mammoth that he wanted to sing to a girl in the audience, and I had a few ideas for some weird sketches... ...We started working on our ideas together... ...We were zookeepers and we got sucked through our bosses’ eyes and into a magic forest..." In 2001 The Mighty Boosh became a six-part radio show on BBC London Live, later transferring to BBC Radio 4 and Barratt has humorously commented that "...so we did
3496-469: A new documentary and 6 of Barratt and Fielding's favourite episodes from all 3 series. J. G. Quintel has said that The Mighty Boosh was a large influence on his animated series Regular Show . In June 2013, it was confirmed that The Mighty Boosh would reunite for a US festival called Festival Supreme in October 2013. On 1 January 2020, Fielding posted an image of himself and Barratt on Instagram with
3648-544: A paperback version was released under the name The Pocket Book of Boosh . Particularly popular among followers of the indie and electro music genres catered to by NME magazine, The Mighty Boosh has been recipient of the Shockwaves NME Awards Best TV Show for three consecutive years, even though there were no new episodes broadcast for the latter two of the three years. Julian Barratt Julian Barratt Pettifer (born 4 May 1968)
3800-487: A performance of the Mighty Boosh at the Hen and Chickens in 2002 during a live run through of a Mighty Boosh pilot. Fielding and Barratt commented on their time at the Hen and Chickens, with Fielding commenting that "...cos it'd be stand up and people would come on and do straight stand up. And then we used to put potted plants all around the gig and music on... ...to try and make it into a sort of play... people couldn't believe
3952-621: A ping-pong ball to make an eye patch. Fielding has commented on their shared interest in music that "I was sort of a bit more rock n roll and pop and he [Barratt] was a bit more jazz but then we sort of met in the middle with electro... but Julian was... I think he left univeristy to join a band, we were both in bands before we were in the Boosh, so we sort of came from that background. Lot of our friends were in bands." They also found they both shared common interests in comedy including Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer. Barratt and Fielding have commented on
4104-441: A ping-pong ball to make an eye patch. The pair soon found that they shared common interests in music and comedy which included Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer and it was also commented that "Both wanted to get their material heard; neither had found anyone to work with who remotely understood what was going on in their head. It was a huge relief when they chanced upon one another and decided to be the new Goodies ... ...What they take from
4256-534: A platform to just try stuff out and it was just a great little place they could do a regular spot... ...where they would probably write and have ideas in the week, try stuff out for half of that and then for the rest of it, it would just be improv and mucking about. Then they took the, um, took the The Mighty Boosh up to Edinburgh and then two more shows Arctic Boosh (1999) , Autoboosh (2000) ...". Both Michael Fielding and Richard Ayoade appeared in
4408-461: A production of Chekhov 's The Bear for Sky Arts 2 and in Sally4Ever , which Davis also wrote and directed. Barratt is known to be shy, quiet, and self-deprecating. Unlike his comedy partner Noel Fielding , he prefers not to appear on comedy quiz shows or make similar public appearances, stating that he would rather "stay at home with a good book". The Goodies The Goodies were
4560-414: A puppet for his bizarre schemes), and Bollo (who often says his name wrongly or ignores him completely). Fielding commented in 2015 that a film was something he talked about writing with Barratt and he also commented in 2013 that "I would love to do a Boosh film I really would. I hope we do cos I feel like that's what we started out wanting to do. We really wanted to do a film, really,... ...we wanted to do
4712-478: A radio show, we did, we sort of recorded it in a sort of old railway sort of arch...", with Fielding adding "in Shoreditch"... with Julian continuing "...built our studio out of weird... little children's toys...". Barratt and fielding have also commented on the process of moving the show from the stage to TV, with Barratt commenting "...we wanted to get on TV but it'd been a lot of trouble because they thought it
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4864-499: A really long guitar solo for about five minutes. So fulfilling one of my childhood dreams..." with Fielding adding "...Roger Daltrey was there... ...He got to watch Julian's solo..." with Barratt replying "...Noel was playing bongos..." and with Fielding replying "Really badly" and Barratt replied "You can't play bongos " with Fielding adding "I was playing a bongo player... ...you did it really well and I did it really badly... We'd been hanging out with Keith Moon someone who can really play
5016-538: A show together." Sometime around 1998 they then put on their first comedy show and it was commented by Nigel Coan with whom they collaborated with on Mighty Boosh that "They did their first gig at Oranje Boom Boom which is sort of in Chinatown in London, and ah, which was ridiculous, I mean it was really, like, ridiculous costumes and um, they didn't know what... they really [didn't] know what they were doing... ...It
5168-429: A show together." Sometime in around 1998 they then put on their first comedy show and it was commented by Nigel Coan with whom they collaborated with on Mighty Boosh that "They did their first gig at Oranje Boom Boom which is sort of in Chinatown in London, and ah, which was ridiculous, I mean it was really, like, ridiculous costumes and um, they didn't know what... they really [didn't] know what they were doing... ...It
5320-433: A six-part radio series for the Boosh. In October 2001 The Boosh radio series, produced by Danny Wallace , was broadcast on BBC London Live, then BBC Radio 4, and later on BBC 7 . The show focuses on the adventures of a pair of zookeepers at "Bob Fossil's Funworld": socially awkward, jazz enthusiast Howard TJ Moon, and ultra-vain, fashion-obsessed Vince Noir. This also included voices from Lee Mack, playing such characters as
5472-619: A six-part series in early 1982, the series was cancelled. In later interviews the cast suggest the reasons were mainly economic, and that a typical Goodies sketch was more expensive than it appeared. "The Goodies" won the Silver Rose at the Festival Rose d'Or , held in Montreux , Switzerland, in 1972 for a special episode, based on the original 1971 Goodies' " Kitten Kong " episode, titled " Kitten Kong: Montreux '72 Edition ". In
5624-434: A stage show and they said how is this going to work on TV cos it is ridiculous. So we wrote, we did a stage show and then they said hows that going to work on TV because its really good live, so, perhaps we should've done it inside a television set." In 2013 Fielding has also commented that "I would love to do a Boosh film I really would. I hope we do cos I feel like thats what we started out wanting to do. We really wanted to do
5776-851: A tour of New Zealand, then on Broadway in New York City (including an appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show ). They also took part in various TV shows with other people, including Brooke-Taylor in At Last the 1948 Show (with Cleese, Chapman and Marty Feldman ). Brooke-Taylor also took part in Marty (with Marty Feldman , John Junkin and Roland MacLeod ). In 1968 Brooke-Taylor appeared with Cleese, Michael Palin and Graham Chapman in How to Irritate People . Garden and Oddie took part in Twice
5928-482: A trio of British comedians: Tim Brooke-Taylor (17 July 1940–12 April 2020), Graeme Garden (b. 18 February 1943) and Bill Oddie (b. 7 July 1941). The trio created, wrote for and performed in their eponymous television comedy show from 1970 until 1982, combining sketches and situation comedy. The three actors met each other while undergraduates at the University of Cambridge , where Brooke-Taylor ( Pembroke )
6080-457: A way to express myself, and seeing people enjoying that. I suppose I’m interested in communicating a pretentious, pompous person a lot of the time, and I have to recognise there is that in me. I did a few serious things before I got into comedy, which make me shudder now. I remember having my mate film me, all shadowy, doing performance poetry. My goodness." In 1997 Barratt first met Mighty Boosh collaborator Noel Fielding when they both appeared on
6232-432: A week to travel and we were playing arenas and we partied every single night and we got up for sound check at six o'clock. So we were like Dracula. I was like Dracula. So I'd wake up at six, do a sound check, wake up, do the show, go to a party, stay up till five in the morning, sleep all day, every day for a hundred... ." Fielding has further commented about the Mighty Boosh that "It was crazy cos we were just going.... ...it
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6384-471: A weird shambles of stuff." The name "Mighty Boosh" was originally a phrase used by a friend of Michael Fielding's to describe the hair that Michael had as a child. From August 2008 to January 2009 they went on tour for a second time with a new stage show of the Mighty Boosh . Barratt has had parts in other dramas, often alongside his Mighty Boosh partner Noel Fielding. He starred as Dan Ashcroft,
6536-601: Is an English comedian, actor and musician. As a comedian and comic actor, he is known for his use of surreal humour and black comedy . During the 2000s he was part of The Mighty Boosh comedy troupe alongside comedy partner Noel Fielding . Born in Leeds , West Yorkshire , Barratt attended the University of Reading and first performed stand up comedy whilst at the University of Reading. In 1997 he first met Mighty Boosh collaborator Noel Fielding when they both appeared on
6688-405: Is going on there? He would be amazed that people actually like what I do. When Noel and I started gigging together and found people were really enjoying it, it was such a thrill. It was a validation of what felt like a long process of growing up, coming up against all these difficulties if you’re shy and you have all these dreams and thoughts you can’t communicate. It was very exciting to finally find
6840-616: Is great' we weren't ever sort of planning it. Like... ..we didn't even know if we could make a living from it." Fielding has commented further that “We always thought we’d make one show and that’d be the end of it. But after we won the Perrier, everyone was telling us that we had to do another, which we did and brought it to Melbourne and won the Barry, and then we made a radio show that won the Douglas Adams Award. We won loads. It
6992-471: Is named after a childhood hairstyle of co-star Michael Fielding . Noel Fielding first met Mighty Boosh collaborator Dave Brown whilst Fielding was studying a foundation course in fine arts at the Croydon School of Art . Then from 1992 to 1995 Fielding studied Graphic Design and Advertising at Buckinghamshire College of Higher Education and whilst there both Dave Brown and Nigel Coan were studying
7144-445: Is quite hard... ...In the boosh tour we did a 100 day tour and we had one day off a week to travel and we were playing arenas and we partied every single night and we got up for sound check at six o'clock. So we were like Dracula. I was like Dracula. So I'd wake up at six, do a sound check, wake up, do the show, go to a party, stay up till five in the morning, sleep all day, every day for a hundred... ." Fielding has further commented about
7296-420: Is this going to work on TV cos it is ridiculous. So we wrote, we did a stage show and then they said hows that going to work on TV because its really good live, so, perhaps we should've done it inside a television set." In 2004 it became an 8 part TV show which aired on BBC Three with a second series airing in 2005 and a third airing in 2007 with there being 20 episodes created over three series. In each series
7448-638: The Billboard Hot 100 in 1975. The New Goodies LP , which featured most of the hit singles, reached number 25 on the UK Albums Chart in 1975. Three variations of the Goodies Theme were used on the opening titles for the 1970–1982 television series. Apart from the original Goodies Theme, used from 1970 to 1972 and released as a single, two other variations surfaced, one, with a contemporary feel from 1973–1974, sung by Bill and then
7600-580: The Let's Dance for Comic Relief finale. He also narrated the 2011 documentary Seven Dwarves . In 2012, Barratt appeared in the miniseries Treasure Island on Sky1 , as well as narrating the BBC Two documentary The Tube . He also had a part as an art teacher in the BBC drama White Heat . In 2013, he appeared in the fifth series of Being Human , playing a werewolf named Larry Chrysler . He also narrated
7752-578: The Directgov advert. He appeared in the music video for Mint Royale 's "Blue Song", alongside Noel Fielding, Nick Frost , and Michael Smiley . In 2010, Barratt took part in Sky Comedy's Little Crackers . He wrote and directed a 15-minute film based on his teen band, Satan's Hoof. On 12 March 2011, he made a brief appearance as Heathcliff in Noel Fielding 's " Wuthering Heights " dance on
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#17328010535117904-552: The Royal Court . Barratt has commented that "At 16 I was into jazz fusion. Not even jazz, just jazz fusion. Rock instruments played like jazz. Really not fashionable in any way. People like Weather Report, Jack Pastorius. My dad was bang into it, so I thought it was normal. Until I played some to my mates. Then when I saw their reaction, it became my dirty secret. I could play guitar pretty well. Or pretty fast anyway. Me and my mate had duels, trying to outspeed each other to become
8056-451: The "Freelance Scientist" commercial for Metz alcopop . He appeared as The Padre in the spoof horror series Garth Marenghi's Darkplace . He also starred in (and was a writer for) the 1998 sketch show Unnatural Acts , alongside Fielding. Before this, Barratt was one half of an experimental comedy duo called "The Pod" with friend Tim Hope , in which they billed themselves as a "Cyberdance Collective". During this time he also appeared in
8208-820: The 13-part variety show Engelbert and the Young Generation , a co-production between the BBC and German station ZDF in which The Goodies appeared in short 3-to-4-minute film sequences. The first six of these sequences were culled from the first and second series of The Goodies : "Pets" (from "Kitten Kong"), "Pop Festival" (from "The Music Lovers"), "Keep Fit" (from "Commonwealth Games"), "Post Office" (from "Radio Goodies"), "Sleepwalking" (from "Snooze") and "Factory Farm" (from "Fresh Farm Foods"); and there were seven new film sequences, "Good Deed Day", "The Gym", "The Country Code", "Street Entertainers", "Plum Pudding", "Bodyguards" and "Pan's Grannies" – these also featured intro sequences with host Engelbert Humperdinck visiting
8360-472: The 1960s BBC radio comedy show I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again , which also featured John Cleese , David Hatch and Jo Kendall , and lasted until 1973. I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again resulted from the 1963 Cambridge University Footlights Club revue A Clump of Plinths . After having its title changed to Cambridge Circus , the revue went on to play in the West End in London, England, followed by
8512-435: The 1982 LWT series was repeated on pay-TV channel Paramount 2. In December 2010, BBC Two showed selected late-night repeats of the BBC series, which ran nightly from 23 to 30 December. This apparent gesture followed years of campaigning by The Goodies that the shows had not been repeated like other BBC shows such as Dad's Army , Only Fools and Horses and Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em . The episodes shown were: " Bunfight at
8664-411: The 2001 film Lucky Break . Barratt made his directing début for Warp Films with theatre director Dan Jemmett. Curtains is set in a Norfolk seaside town. It is a dark comedy about a Punch and Judy man. In 2012, Barratt directed his first music video, for the song "All of Me" by Tanlines . He can be heard as the voiceover on many adverts, such as More Th>n Car, House and Pet insurance, and
8816-673: The 2017 film Mindhorn . He starred in the Channel 4 black comedy-drama sitcom Flowers . Barratt was born Julian Barratt Pettifer on 4 May 1968 in Leeds , West Yorkshire . He grew up in Leeds and his father was a science teacher and it has also been commented that one of his parents was a "market researcher". His father was a fan of jazz music and it was further commented that "...both [Noel Fielding and Barratt] had fathers who loved Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart, and who encouraged their sons to avoid getting proper jobs." When he
8968-512: The BBC Two documentaries The Route Masters: Running London's Roads and The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway . In April 2014, he collaborated with Julia Davis and Joe Frank on Frank's radio show "Isolation," which was broadcast as part of KCRW 's UnFictional series. In April 2016, he starred as Maurice Flowers, a children's author battling depression, in the Channel 4 series, Flowers ,
9120-478: The BBC documentary series Comedy Connections was devoted to the Goodies. During Christmas that year, Channel 5 repeated the classic 1973 episode " The Goodies and the Beanstalk ". Christmas 2005 saw a 90-minute Goodies special, a documentary about the series, Return of the Goodies , broadcast on BBC Two . Early in 2006, a single episode (" Winter Olympics ") was broadcast on BBC Two . In February 2007,
9272-418: The BBC episodes, one episode every day, starting with series one episode one on 26th September at 21.40. Series 2 started airing at 21.45 on October 5. Series 3 started airing at 21:40 on October 11. Series 4 started airing at 21:30 on October 17. Series 5 started airing at 21:30 on October 24. Series 6 started airing at 21:30 on November 6. Some episodes are being aired in poor quality and/or black & White as
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#17328010535119424-561: The BBC simply by saying: 'If we were young, we'd want to be them.'" From August 2008 to January 2009 they went on tour for a second time with a new stage show of the Mighty Boosh . After two years away from television, the Boosh returned in November 2007. Set in Naboo's second-hand shop below the flat, the third series drew approximately 1 million viewers with its first episode, and in light of its success, BBC Three broadcast an entire night of The Mighty Boosh on 22 March 2008, which included
9576-643: The Barry, and then we made a radio show that won the Douglas Adams Award. We won loads. It was manic. We always thought we’d do a couple of years together and go our separate ways. We went from stages to the radio show to television to live shows. It went on and on.” Barratt has also commented that “Me and Noel went to HBO once and pitched this really ludicrous idea about us driving around in a haunted car and they just stared at us. Literally stared at us!... ...Luckily, we were together so we could laugh about it..." Fielding commented in 2015 that whilst creating Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy that "Originally I used to do all
9728-468: The Beanstalk' & 'The Race', series 5 episodes 'Scatty Safari' & 'South Africa' were not aired, with no notice or reason given. In Australia, the series has had continued popularity. It was especially popular when it was repeated through the 1970s and 1980s by the ABC . As the show was typically broadcast in the 25-minute 6:00 pm children's timeslot, portions often had to be cut. The 1981-82 LWT series
9880-627: The Boosh returned to the Edinburgh Festival with a new show, Arctic Boosh , with Dave Brown acting as choreographer and photographer, as well as playing a variety of characters. Arctic Boosh sold out every night and was nominated for the Perrier Award . The show was directed by Stewart Lee . In 2000, the Boosh premiered their third stage show, Autoboosh , at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, adding Fielding's younger brother Michael to
10032-694: The Christmas 1976 edition of Disney Time from the toy department of Selfridges store in London, broadcast on BBC1 on Boxing Day at 5.50 pm. The Goodies never had a formal contract with the BBC, and when the BBC Light Entertainment budget for 1980 was exhausted by the production of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy TV series, the Goodies signed a contract with London Weekend Television (LWT) for ITV . However, after one half-hour Christmas special (" Snow White 2 ") in 1981, and
10184-754: The DVDs were only released in Region 2 but as a result of a growing fan base in the U.S., the BBC rereleased in Region 1 , Series 1–3 individually on 21 July 2009, and a Special Edition Series 1–3 Boxset on 13 October 2009. On 18 September 2008, Canongate Books published The Mighty Book of Boosh , designed and compiled by Dave Brown and written by Noel Fielding, Julian Barratt, Rich Fulcher , Dave Brown, Richard Ayoade and Michael Fielding. The book includes original stories, crimps , concept art, behind-the-scenes photography, comics, and various other things, featuring old and new Mighty Boosh characters. On 1 October 2009,
10336-541: The Goodies at their office. The shows were dubbed into German and because the Goodies part of the shows was more visual than dialogue -based, it translated very well. Five of these new films were also cut together, with a new story involving The Goodies filling out their "Tax Evasion" form, as a special 25-minute Goodies compilation episode, " A Collection of Goodies ", first broadcast on BBC1 at 8.15 pm on 24 September 1972, and produced by Jim Franklin . "The Country Code" and "Bodyguards" were not used. In New Zealand,
10488-636: The Hellfire Comedy nights next to the Wycombe Swan Theatre in High Wycombe , which is where Noel first met future Boosh co-creator, Julian Barratt". Whilst Barratt and Fielding were on The Jonathan Ross Show, Ross asked them "And did you perform as solo acts ever, did you do like stand up..." with Barratt responding "yeah, yeah, that's how we sort of met really on the circuit, doing stand up, yeah.", with Ross responding "But, but
10640-495: The Hen and Chickens, with Fielding commenting that "...cos it'd be stand up and people would come on and do straight stand up. And then we used to put potted plants all around the gig and music on... ...to try and make it into a sort of play... people couldn't believe the audacity. It got some sort of reputation as being sort of enigmatic but we're just really unprofessional. We didn't know anything about theatre or what you did." with Barratt responding to Fielding "Speak for yourself, I
10792-460: The Mighty Boosh "... almost didn't make it to television. Around 2000, Barratt and Fielding disappeared into development hell. They had done a sketch show for Radio 4, but no one was sure how to translate their act on to TV. That's until Steve Coogan, who had seen them in Edinburgh in 1999 when they were performing as Arctic Boosh, moved things along. His production company... ...sold the concept to
10944-603: The Mighty Boosh TV show, An evening with Noel Fielding and Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy . Coan also directed Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy as well as helping to write it along with Fielding. Dave Brown also contributed to graphics for the Mighty Boosh including the DVD cover art for the Mighty Boosh Live 2006 stage show. Brown also "...designed and compiled The Mighty Book of Boosh ..." as well as all
11096-415: The Mighty Boosh TV show, An evening with Noel Fielding and Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy . Coan also directed Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy as well as helping to write it along with Fielding. Dave Brown also contributed to graphics for the Mighty Boosh including the DVD cover art for the Mighty Boosh Live 2006 stage show. Brown also "...designed and compiled The Mighty Book of Boosh ..." as well as all
11248-448: The Mighty Boosh that "It was crazy cos we were just going.... ...it was never mean't to be, we were never mean't to be playing the O2 and Wembley and being on the cover of Time Out and... ...being on Jonathan Ross I dont think we ever thought that would happen... ...We always sort of just made it in our bedroom and then brought it out and stuff happened. We were as surprised as anyone when we won
11400-429: The Mighty Boosh, Barratt plays the character Howard Moon opposite Noel Fielding 's Vince Noir . Howard labels himself a "jazz maverick" and claims to be a multi-talented intellectual, calling himself a "man of action", but he is actually unsuccessful in his literary and romantic ventures. He is unpopular with many of the characters, including Mrs. Gideon (who always forgets his name), Bob Fossil (who often uses Howard as
11552-488: The Mighty boosh "...They thought lets do a show, an Edinburgh show. I think they started to think about doing that. So they got a gig at Hen and Chickens...". Dave Brown who also collaborated on the Mighty Boosh with them commented further on their time at the Hen and chickens which is a theatre bar in Islington, London, "They would use the Hen and Chickens as this kind of... place to, a platform to just try stuff out and it
11704-439: The O.K. Tea Rooms " / " Earthanasia " / " The Goodies and the Beanstalk " / " Kitten Kong " / " Lighthouse Keeping Loonies " / " Saturday Night Grease " / " The Baddies " (a.k.a. "Double Trouble") and " The Stone Age ", although " Scoutrageous ", " Kung Fu Kapers " and " Scotland " (a.k.a. "Loch Ness Monster") were originally billed as episodes 1, 2 and 7 of the repeat run. The episodes garnered good ratings given their time slot, and
11856-428: The Perrier and we were surprised when it got put on telly. We were like 'Wow this is great' we weren't ever sort of planning it. Like... ..we didn't even know if we could make a living from it." Fielding has commented further that “We always thought we’d make one show and that’d be the end of it. But after we won the Perrier, everyone was telling us that we had to do another, which we did and brought it to Melbourne and won
12008-525: The Plumber or the Gardener. The Mighty Boosh returned to radio on 22 October 2004, in a one-off comedy special for The Breezeblock , a show on BBC Radio 1 . Instead of the plot driven nature of their own series, this show featured improvised conversational comedy with Barratt, Fielding and Fulcher, combined with the show's usual mix of electronic music. On 15 November 2007, as part of the publicity for
12160-466: The UK and Ireland for a second time from September 2008 to February 2009. The show featured characters from all three series as well as the Boosh Band. They made appearances throughout the UK after their live shows, at after-parties held in different places in each city. The events were called "Outrage", after the catchphrase by Tony Harrison . From the success of Autoboosh , the BBC commissioned
12312-410: The UK. In 1986, BBC2 broadcast the episode " Kitten Kong " during a week of programmes screened under the banner "TV-50", when the BBC celebrated 50 years of broadcasting. In the late 1980s the pan-European satellite-channel Super Channel broadcast a couple of episodes, and the short-lived Comedy Channel broadcast some of the later Goodies episodes in the early 1990s. Later UK Gold screened many of
12464-675: The United States. The first television series is set in a zoo operated by Bob Fossil, the second in a flat and the third in a secondhand shop in Dalston called Nabootique. The style of humour in the Mighty Boosh is often described as being surreal , as well as being escapist and new wave comedy. Various members of The Mighty Boosh have appeared in a number of different comedy series including Nathan Barley , Snuff Box and Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy . Regular Boosh collaborators include Michael Fielding , Rich Fulcher , Dave Brown , Nigel Coan , Richard Ayoade and Matt Berry . The troupe
12616-400: The audacity. It got some sort of reputation as being sort of enigmatic but we're just really unprofessional. We didn't know anything about theatre or what you did." with Barratt responding to Fielding "Speak for yourself, I was in a Sartre play at university I'll have you know. Huis Clos ." Fielding has commented further on their first live show, The Mighty Boosh , “Julian had a song about
12768-431: The back door mid-act and through fields to a lake." Barratt has further commented that after he left the venue "...the manager came out after me and said: 'Get back in there, it’s going well.' So I went back. I suppose that was a big turning point for me." Barratt has further commented on his beginnings in theatre that "I’m looking at a big poster of myself now and I know my 16-year-old self would see that and think, what
12920-513: The beginning of The Mighty Boosh , with Barratt commenting that "We performed together for the first time in ... was it in that show by Stuart Lee?", with Fielding replying "yeah, Stuart Lee's show, Moby Dick and King Dong (At the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 1997) ... Julian played King Dong's penis...", with Barratt replying "...an enormous penis...", and then with Fielding replying "perfect King Dong... then we thought let's do
13072-580: The caption, "There really wasn't enough Boosh this decade ! let's try and rectify that in the next one ;) x". The cast members also play smaller roles throughout the series, the roles listed above are their most frequently appearing characters. For a full list of characters, see the List of The Mighty Boosh characters . The Boosh, then consisting of only Barratt and Fielding, conceived The Mighty Boosh whilst working on Stewart Lee 's Edinburgh Festival show King Dong vs. Moby Dick in which they played
13224-476: The cast). Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden were writers/performers on the television comedy series Broaden Your Mind , with Bill Oddie joining them for the second series. The three writers and performers also collaborated on the 1983 animated children's programme Bananaman , where they played various voice roles. Bill Oddie has occasionally appeared on the BBC Radio 4 panel game I'm Sorry I Haven't
13376-465: The cast. Autoboosh won the festival's Barry Award . The Boosh returned to the stage in 2006, touring the UK for the first time. Though drawing heavily from their earlier material, the main story combined these elements into a new narrative. A recording of this show at the Brixton Academy was later released on DVD, before being broadcast on BBC Three on Boxing Day , 2007. The Boosh toured
13528-568: The circuit, doing stand up, yeah.", with Ross responding "But, but was it similar to the Boosh stuff, 'cos the Boosh stuff it seems to be so much of a partnership I can't imagine it being taken apart and being served up separately.", with Barratt responding that "We were both doing quite surreal stuff, eh...", with Fielding adding "It was quite weird wasn't it, alot weirder than the show in a way...", with Barratt continuing "...but we sort of, when we first met we kind of liked each others comedy but we didn't know that it would work, we didn't know whether it
13680-634: The classic Seventies series is more the spirit of... ...silly and surreal comedy." Fielding has commented on their shared interest in music that "I was sort of a bit more rock n roll and pop and he [Julian Barratt] was a bit more jazz but then we sort of met in the middle with electro... but Julian was... I think he left univeristy to join a band, we were both in bands before we were in the Boosh, so we sort of came from that background. Lot of our friends were in bands." It has also been commented that Barratt "...had dropped out of an American studies course at Reading University" and Barratt has also commented that when he
13832-498: The concept to the BBC simply by saying: 'If we were young, we'd want to be them.'" The style of humour in the Mighty Boosh is often described as being surreal , as well as being escapist and new wave comedy. Fielding has further commented that "I think our show is magical and fantastical. We tell very intricate, weird stories. Vince Noir is quite modern, a bit of an indie kid; Howard Moon is... ...eccentric... ...and we rely heavily on Julian's music and my animation... ...It's such
13984-488: The drums and I couldn't play at all..." In the early 1990s Barratt was in a band called Groove Solution with Dave Westlake. In 2012 he pl "Thyed jazz guitar live on stage with Tenacious D. He has also played bass with Chris Corner in IAMX , and played guitar for Little Chief during their European tour. Barratt is in a relationship with comedian Julia Davis . The couple have twin sons. In 2010, they performed together in
14136-561: The earlier episodes, often with commercial timing cuts. The same episodes subsequently aired on UK Arena , also cut. When UK Arena became UK Drama, later UKTV Drama, The Goodies was dropped along with its other comedy and documentary shows. The cast finally took matters into their own hands and arranged with Network Video for the release of a digitally-remastered 'best of' selection entitled The Goodies ... At Last on VHS and Region 0 DVD in April 2003. A second volume, The Goodies ... At Last
14288-863: The entire series 3 as well as a broadcast of The Mighty Boosh Live . On 8 February 2012, whilst sledging, Noel Fielding said that he and Barratt had discussed plans to make a Mighty Boosh film. On New Year's Eve in 2019, Noel Fielding posted that there needs to be more Boosh in the following decade on his Instagram account. On 5 July 2008, the Boosh held their own festival in the Hop Farm in Kent. It featured musical acts, Robots in Disguise , The Charlatans , The Kills , Gary Numan , and The Mighty Boosh Band, as well as comedy acts Frankie Boyle and Ross Noble . According to an official MySpace page for PieFace Records (the fictitious music label mentioned throughout
14440-418: The episodes. The famous " Four Yorkshiremen " sketch was co-written by the four writers/performers of the series – Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman. Tim Brooke-Taylor was a cast member of the television comedy series Marty with Marty Feldman and John Junkin – a compilation of the two series of Marty has been released on a DVD with the title of It's Marty . Brooke-Taylor
14592-471: The fastest guitarist in Yorkshire. That was all that mattered to me... ...I got into heavy metal because you could legitimately play solos. Van Halen was a big influence... ..And I played a lot of long, fast guitar solos." Barratt and Fielding have commented on the end of one of the episodes of the Mighty Boosh with Barratt commenting that "There's a scene at the end of one of the episodes where I get to do
14744-658: The first episode of the next series, " The New Office ", Tim Brooke-Taylor can be seen painting the trophy gold. "The Goodies" was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Light Entertainment Programme in 1972, losing to The Benny Hill Show . "The Goodies" won the Silver Rose in 1975 at the Festival Rose d'Or for their episode " The Movies ". "The Goodies" was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Light Entertainment Programme in 1976, losing to The Two Ronnies . Unlike many long-running BBC comedy series, The Goodies has not enjoyed extensive repeats on terrestrial television in
14896-504: The first series of the Mighty Boosh TV show and both his parents appeared in the second series, whilst Noel Fieldings father and stepmother also appeared in the Mighty Boosh TV show with Fielding's father Ray Fielding having several cameos as Chris de Burgh. On his beginnings in stand up Barratt has commented that "I was never like Noel [Fielding] or Lee Mack, who are just funny all the time. No one ever said to me, you should be
15048-552: The first six episodes were taken from the BBC's own master tapes, rather than the digital remasters, the rights to which are currently owned by Network Video. "The Baddies" and "The Stone Age" have never been digitally remastered. On Sunday 8 June 2014, during a 1970s weekend, BBC Two repeated the Montreux '72 Edition of "Kitten Kong" once again; however, this has been the only episode to be repeated twice, and no full series have been repeated since. In September 2018, Network released
15200-665: The first television series of The Mighty Boosh for BBC Three, before it moved to BBC Two in November that same year. Though each episode invariably starts and ends in Dixon Bainbridge's dilapidated zoo, the "Zooniverse", the characters of Vince and Howard often depart for other locations, such as the Arctic tundra and limbo . A second series, shown in July 2005, saw Howard and Vince sharing Naboo's flat in Dalston with previously minor characters Naboo and his familiar , Bollo,
15352-497: The first television series, since Ayoade was under contract with Channel 4 . It was also commented that the Mighty Boosh "... almost didn't make it to television. Around 2000, Barratt and Fielding disappeared into development hell. They had done a sketch show for Radio 4, but no one was sure how to translate their act on to TV. That's until Steve Coogan, who had seen them in Edinburgh in 1999 when they were performing as Arctic Boosh, moved things along. His production company... ...sold
15504-417: The first television series, since Ayoade was under contract with Channel 4 . Fielding has further commented that "'I think our show is magical and fantastical. We tell very intricate, weird stories. Vince Noir is quite modern, a bit of an indie kid; Howard Moon is... ...eccentric... ...and we rely heavily on Julian's music and my animation... ...It's such a weird shambles of stuff.'" It was also commented that
15656-558: The involvement of new characters (e.g. Sammy the Crab, or Lester Corncrake etc.) rather than just the two of them. Although BBC America originally aired only series 1 in the U.S (all episodes in their entirety), The Mighty Boosh began airing in North America on Cartoon Network 's Adult Swim block (with up to 6 minutes cut from each episode), starting 29 March 2009 with the third series. In February 2016 series 1 of The Mighty Boosh
15808-521: The late 1990s and early 2000s, where they were screened in full. ABC2 ran re-runs of the series, beginning in 2010. Three of the Goodies DVDs are available in Australia under different titles to the UK releases: The Goodies: 8 Delicious Episodes , The Goodies: A Tasty Second Helping and The Goodies: The Final Episodes , respectively. The Goodies' DVDs are also available in a boxed set with
15960-399: The music for the show. Later episodes were co-written by Garden and Oddie. It was one of the first shows in the UK to use chroma key and one of the first to use stop-motion techniques in a live action format. Other effects include hand editing for repeated movement, mainly used to make animals "talk" or "sing", and play speed effects as used in the episode " Kitten Kong ". In the series,
16112-467: The paintings for the animations. This meant that I was filming in the day and staying up until 5 am painting. After three weeks of this I started to feel unusual so Ivana Zorn, who is Nigel Coan's partner, now does a majority of the painting and I just design the main characters. Nigel animates everything like a futuristic goose." Fielding formed "Secret Peter Productions" with Nigel Coan who, along with Fielding and Zorn, helped to animate series 1 and 2 of
16264-466: The paintings for the animations. This meant that I was filming in the day and staying up untill 5 am painting. After three weeks of this I started to feel unusual so Ivana Zorn, who is Nigel Coan's partner, now does a majority of the painting and I just design the main characters. Nigel animates everything like a futuristic goose." Fielding formed "Secret Peter Productions" with Nigel Coan who, along with Fielding and Zorn, helped to animate series 1 and 2 of
16416-474: The premier of their third series the same day, Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding returned to Radio 1, this time on Jo Whiley 's Live Lounge . On 9 April 2019, it was announced that The Mighty Boosh will be the UK ambassadors for the Record Store Day at 13 April 2019, a show on BBC Radio 1 . In May 2004, after the success of the Boosh pilot, Steve Coogan 's company, Baby Cow Productions , produced
16568-433: The publishing output for the Mighty Boosh. It has been commented that Barratt "...composed all the music for The Mighty Boosh." with Barratt also commenting that "I write the music, eh, but we both sort of write, we both write the lyrics, and we, I do the music mostly..." with Fielding replying to Barratt that "I have a go at the melodies then he goes away and makes it..." and then with Barratt replying "...tweaks, tweaks it
16720-430: The publishing output for the Mighty Boosh. It has been commented that Barratt "...composed all the music for The Mighty Boosh." with Barratt also commenting that "I write the music, eh, but we both sort of write, we both write the lyrics, and we, I do the music mostly..." with Fielding replying to Barratt that "I have a go at the melodies then he goes away and makes it..." and then with Barratt replying "...tweaks, tweaks it
16872-452: The same bill together. I was on first and usually you can only have about one weird comedian on a line-up. He’d been doing it a bit longer than me... [Barratt was like]'...Let’s write together'. I’ve been stuck with him ever since and that was about eight years ago or something." It has also been commented that whilst Fielding and Dave Brown were both art students at Buckinghamshire College of Higher Education "They were both regular visitors to
17024-616: The same comedy bill at a pub in north London. In 2006 Fielding commented that "We were doing stand-up and were on the same bill together. I was on first and usually you can only have about one weird comedian on a line-up. He’d been doing it a bit longer than me... [Barratt was like]'...Let’s write together'. I’ve been stuck with him ever since and that was about eight years ago or something." Whilst Barratt and Fielding were on The Jonathan Ross Show, Ross asked them "And did you perform as solo acts ever, did you do like stand up..." with Barratt responding "yeah, yeah, that's how we sort of met really on
17176-500: The same comedy bill at a pub in north London. Sometime in around 1998 they then performed their first comedy show together in London which was a mix of both stand up and sketch comedy and then in 1998 they took the show, The Mighty Boosh , to the Edinburgh fringe festival and returned again in 1999 with Arctic Boosh and in 2000 with Autoboosh . In 2001 The Mighty Boosh became a six-part radio show on BBC London Live , called The Boosh later transferring to BBC radio 4. This
17328-485: The same course as Fielding and all three shared a student house together. After they had lived together in student housing, Fielding, Brown and Coan then later lived together in a flat in Hackney in London. It has been commented that Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt first met when in 1997 they both appeared on the same comedy bill at a pub in north London. In 2006 Fielding commented that "We were doing stand-up and were on
17480-505: The series was originally shown in full by the NZBC (later TV One ) during the 1970s and 1980s. Since then, it has been re-run on SKY Network Television 's Comedy Central. In Spain, a couple of episodes of The Goodies were shown as part of a season of television-award-winning programmes (the Goodies were Montreux Festival winners) on TVE 2 entitled Festival TV in 1981. In the US, the series
17632-598: The series was shown in on the CBC national broadcast network during the late 1970s and early 1980s, in the traditional "after school" time slot, later a Friday night 10 pm slot, and occasionally in a midnight slot. Several episodes were also shown on the CTV Television Network . In the mid-1970s it was shown on TVOntario on Saturday evenings, repeated on Thursday evenings, until it was replaced by Doctor Who in 1976. In Germany in 1972, German TV screened
17784-547: The series), Barratt and Fielding are to release an album of music from the show, "along with extras, versions, remixes and rare unreleased stuff all to be released later in the year on their own label—this one". In interviews since, The Mighty Boosh have confirmed they will be releasing an album of their music. On 21 October 2013 episode of Never Mind the Buzzcocks , Fielding stated that the Boosh have recorded an album, but don't know when it will be released. Previously most of
17936-419: The setting changes, with the first series set in a zoo operated by Bob Fossil, the second in a flat and the third in a secondhand shop in Dalston called Nabootique. In 2006 Fielding and Barratt went on tour with a new theatre show The Mighty Boosh Live . Fielding has commented in relation to touring that "The touring lifestyle is quite hard... ...In The Boosh tour we did a 100 day tour and we had one day off
18088-419: The sitcoms You Must Be The Husband (with Diane Keen and Sheila Steafel ), and Me and My Girl (with Richard O'Sullivan and Joan Sanderson ). He also played in a televised pro-celebrity golf match opposite Bruce Forsyth . Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie were writers/performers on the television comedy series Twice a Fortnight (which also included Terry Jones , Michael Palin and Jonathan Lynn in
18240-582: The tapes were sadly wiped for reuse by the BBC in the 1970s. Although there is a message before each episode stating; 'This programme reflects the standards, language and attitudes of its time. Some viewers may find this content offensive', it seems that not all episodes are being aired - noticeably the 'Kitten Kong', 'Special Tax Edition' & 'The Goodies Rule – O.K.?' specials, but also series 2 episodes 'Pollution', 'The Lost Tribe', 'Come Dancing', 'Gender Education, 'Charity Bounce' & 'The Baddies', series 3 episode 'Superstar', series 4 episodes 'The Goodies and
18392-456: The third and final theme for the rest of the series from 1975 onwards, again sung by Bill. This variation lasted for the rest of the TV series and also surfaced on later Goodies LPs and, eventually, singles. Tim Brooke-Taylor was a writer/performer on the television comedy series At Last the 1948 Show (which also included John Cleese , Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman in the cast), in which Eric Idle and Bill Oddie guest-starred in some of
18544-521: The threesome travelled on, and frequently fell off, a three-seater bicycle known to them as a 'trandem'. In September 1978, the trio appeared in character in an episode of the BBC1 television game show Star Turn Challenge , presented by Bernard Cribbins , in which teams of celebrities competed in acting games. Their opponents were three members of the cast of The Liver Birds , Nerys Hughes , Elizabeth Estensen and Michael Angelis . They also presented
18696-618: The university. All three Goodies became members of the Cambridge University Footlights Club , with Brooke-Taylor becoming president in 1963, and Garden succeeding him as president in 1964. In 1965, Eric Idle succeeded Garden as Footlights Club president. Idle had initially become aware of the Footlights when he auditioned for a " smoker concert " at Pembroke College in front of Brooke-Taylor and Oddie. Brooke-Taylor, Garden and Oddie were cast members of
18848-517: Was a big turning point for me." Barratt and Fielding have commented on the beginning of the Mighty boosh, with Barratt commenting that "We performed together for the first time in... ... was it in that show by Stuart Lee?", with Fielding replying "yeah, Stuart Lees show, Moby Dick and King Dong (At the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 1997)... ...Julian played King Dong's penis...", with Barratt replying "...an enormous penis...", and then with Fielding replying "...a perfect King Dong... ...then we thought lets do
19000-403: Was a law student, Garden ( Emmanuel ) was studying medicine and Oddie (Pembroke) was reading English . Their contemporaries included Graham Chapman , John Cleese and Eric Idle , who later became members of Monty Python , and with whom they became close friends. Brooke-Taylor and Cleese studied together and swapped lecture notes, for they were both law students, but at different colleges within
19152-413: Was a six-part series that was first broadcast in 2001 on BBC London Live , later transferring to BBC Radio 4 , and Barratt has humorously commented that "...so we did a radio show, we did, we sort of recorded it in a sort of old railway sort of arch... [with Fielding adding] in Shoreditch... ....built our studio out of weird... little childrens toys...". From the radio show Fielding and Barratt were given
19304-413: Was about to say, and I just ran out of the venue." It has also been commented that this occurred "...during his first standup sketch at Reading University..." and that he "...ran through the back door mid-act and through fields to a lake." Barrett has further commented that after he left the venue "...the manager came out after me and said: 'Get back in there, it’s going well.' So I went back. I suppose that
19456-423: Was also a cast member of John Cleese's special How to Irritate People . Along with John Junkin and Barry Cryer , Brooke-Taylor was a regular cast member of the long-running Radio 2 comedy sketch show Hello, Cheeky! , which ran from 1973 to 1979. The series also transferred to Yorkshire Television for two series in 1975 and 1976. Tim Brooke-Taylor also appeared on BBC's hospital comedy TLC , as well as
19608-476: Was commented that "The pair have written two film scripts in the past, though neither made it to production. One was a "Rocky Horror Picture Show type thing," according to Fielding, in which Barratt played a character who has woken up believing himself to be the last man on earth. The other was an Arctic adventure – 'because we always liked the Arctic'." Fielding commented in 2015 that whilst creating Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy that "Originally I used to do all
19760-412: Was eh, the scripts we sort of gave them were sort of like massive epic adventures that sounded like it would cost them a million pounds to make so they said this isn't, I don't know how this is going to work on stage, well actually what happened is..." with Fielding adding "We wrote it for Channel 4 originally", and with Julian continuing "...[we spoke to them] before we'd done a stage show and they said how
19912-518: Was followed by six of Barratt and Fielding's favourite episodes from the three series: " Party ", " The Power of the Crimp ", " The Nightmare of Milky Joe ", " The Priest and the Beast ", " The Legend of Old Gregg ", and " Tundra ". The pair also appeared in live links throughout the night, in a similar style to the openings of Series 1 episodes. On 23 December 2008, BBC3 held a Merry Booshmas Party featuring
20064-636: Was followed by the television show The Mighty Boosh , which ran for three series on BBC Three from 2004 to 2007. The show generated a cult following and won a variety of awards. From February to April 2006 they went on tour around the UK with the stage show The Mighty Boosh Live and then toured the UK for a second time from September 2008 to January 2009 with The Mighty Boosh Live: Future Sailors Tour . Alongside Fielding, he has starred in Unnatural Acts , Nathan Barley and Garth Marenghi's Darkplace . Barratt also co-wrote and starred in
20216-545: Was further commented that "He initially thought he’d be a musician and set off as a teenager... [with Barratt saying] ...'You know the well-known saying: leave home at 17 and make your fortune in London as a jazz drummer...'". He later began studying a course in American studies at Reading University, from which he left before graduating. Barratt adopted his middle name as his surname to distinguish himself from reporter Julian Pettifer . Barratt's father made an appearance in
20368-463: Was gonna cancel each other out and make....", with Fielding responding "Yeah, too weird to make sort of, straight...", with Barratt continuing "...might just become geography or something else or... this sort of thing, but it worked for some reason...", with Fielding adding "We had quite a good chemistry straight away." On the day they met they both went back to Julian's place that night where Barratt played music on his Akai sampler whilst Fielding used
20520-462: Was gonna cancel each other out and make....", with Fielding responding "Yeah, too weird to make sort of, straight...", with Barratt continuing "...might just become geography or something else or... this sort of thing, but it worked for some reason...", with Fielding adding "We had quite a good chemistry straight away." On the day they met they both went back to Julian's place that night where Barratt played music on his Akai sampler whilst Fielding used
20672-402: Was in a Sartre play at university I'll have you know. Huis Clos ." Fielding has commented further on their first live show, The Mighty Boosh , “Julian had a song about a mammoth that he wanted to sing to a girl in the audience, and I had a few ideas for some weird sketches... ...We started working on our ideas together... ...We were zookeepers and we got sucked through our bosses’ eyes and into
20824-501: Was it similar to the Boosh stuff, 'cos the Boosh stuff it seems to be so much of a partnership I can't imagine it being taken apart and being served up separately.", with Barratt responding that "We were both doing quite surreal stuff, eh...", with Fielding adding "It was quite weird wasn't it, a lot weirder than the show in a way...", with Barratt continuing "...but we sort of, when we first met we kind of liked each others comedy but we didn't know that it would work, we didn't know whether it
20976-419: Was just a great little place they could do a regular spot... ...where they would probably write and have ideas in the week, try stuff out for half of that and then for the rest of it, it would just be improv and mucking about. Then they took the, um, took The Mighty Boosh up to Edinburgh and then two more shows Arctic Boosh (1999) , Autoboosh (2000) ...". Fielding and Barratt commented on their time at
21128-462: Was made available to watch via the online service BBC iPlayer for six weeks; this included every episode minus the final episode of the first series 'Hitcher'. On 22 March 2008, BBC Three broadcast a whole night of The Mighty Boosh from 9:05 pm, starting with a new documentary titled The Mighty Boosh: A Journey Through Time and Space , documenting the history of the Boosh from their first amateur performances to their then-upcoming 2008 tour. This
21280-440: Was manic. We always thought we’d do a couple of years together and go our separate ways. We went from stages to the radio show to television to live shows. It went on and on.” Barratt has also commented that “Me and Noel went to HBO once and pitched this really ludicrous idea about us driving around in a haunted car and they just stared at us. Literally stared at us!... ...Luckily, we were together so we could laugh about it..." In
21432-434: Was never like Noel [Fielding] or Lee Mack, who are just funny all the time. No one ever said to me, you should be a comedian mate. But I watched a lot of stand-up at uni – people like Mark Lamarr, Sean Hughes, Eddie Izzard, just standing on a stage doing these phenomenal routines. And I could see how you could do it. So I started doing it myself, and I was so shocked when it worked. I remember one time I completely forgot what I
21584-413: Was never meant to be, we were never meant to be playing the O2 and Wembley and being on the cover of Time Out and... ...being on Jonathan Ross I don't think we ever thought that would happen... ...We always sort of just made it in our bedroom and then brought it out and stuff happened. We were as surprised as anyone when we won the Perrier and we were surprised when it got put on telly. We were like 'Wow this
21736-526: Was originally a phrase used by a friend of Michael Fielding's to describe the hair that Michael had as a child. All three of the Mighty Boosh stage shows – The Mighty Boosh (1998), Arctic Boosh (1999) and Autoboosh (2000) – were taken to the Edinburgh Fringe and with the success of Autoboosh , a radio series was commissioned by the BBC . Produced by Danny Wallace , The Boosh radio show
21888-488: Was played once on the Seven Network in the early 1980s. The ABC screened the BBC episodes again in the early 1990s, but skipped several stories due to either inappropriate material for a children's timeslot, or a lack of colour prints at the time. The BBC episodes were then heavily edited to allow time for commercials when repeated on Network Ten in the 1990s, before moving to the pay television channel UK.TV during
22040-426: Was released in 1973 and reissued as The World of the Goodies in 1974. "The Goodies Theme" was released as a single in 1973. They had a string of successful chart singles penned by Bill Oddie. In 1974–75, they chalked up five hit singles in twelve months: " The Inbetweenies ", " Black Pudding Bertha ", " Nappy Love " and " The Funky Gibbon " (all performed during the episode " The Goodies – Almost Live "), and " Make
22192-486: Was set in a British space station in the near future. Garden was a regular team captain on the political satire game show If I Ruled the World . Brooke-Taylor appeared as a guest in one episode, and during the game "I Couldn't Disagree More" he proposed that it was high time The Goodies episodes were repeated. Garden was obliged by the rules of the game to refute this statement, and replied "I couldn't disagree more...it
22344-614: Was seventeen "We went to stay with a friend of a friend’s uncle but we came back after three days. We thought we’d make inroads into the jazz scene in London – we’d read biographies about guys who got gigs at Ronnie Scott’s and got spotted and immediately taken into someone’s band. So we told our parents we were leaving home. They gave us two days and we lasted three...". It was also commented that "...both [Fielding and Barratt] had fathers who loved Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart, and who encouraged their sons to avoid getting proper jobs." On his beginnings in stand up Barratt has commented that "I
22496-529: Was shown widely in syndication during the late 1970s and early 1980s, but has been little seen since. It was shown also on PBS stations, sometimes in tandem with Monty Python's Flying Circus . In their heyday The Goodies also produced successful books: " All Things Bright and Beautiful " was released as a single credited to The Goodies in 1973, although it had been recorded in 1966 when they were part of I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again . The first true Goodies album, The Goodies Sing Songs From The Goodies ,
22648-500: Was then commissioned for BBC Three, directed by Paul King and broadcast in 2004, with a second series of 6 episodes the next year. The second series moved away from the zoo setting to show Howard , Vince , Naboo the shaman and Bollo the talking ape living in a flat in Dalston . In 2006, the Boosh returned to theatre with The Mighty Boosh Live , which featured a new story entitled "The Ruby of Kukundu". Fielding has commented in relation to touring that "The touring lifestyle
22800-420: Was very raw, but it was, it was hilarious... ...They thought lets do a show, an Edinburgh show. I think they started to think about doing that. So they got a gig at Hen and Chickens...". Dave Brown who also collaborated on the Mighty Boosh with them commented further on their time at the Hen and chickens which is a theatre bar in Islington, London, "They would use the Hen and Chickens as this kind of... place to,
22952-460: Was very raw, but it was, it was hilarious..." After Barratt and Fielding's first performance together at Oranje Boom Boom at bar De Hems, in London in April 1998, they developed their zookeeper characters, Howard Moon and Vince Noir , in a series of sketches for Paramount Comedy ’s Unnatural Acts with Barratt commenting that "Early on we had Rich Fulcher, we were working on a sketch show...". Nigle Coan has commented further on them developing
23104-517: Was younger Barratt played in a band and has described how when he was seventeen he wanted to begin playing in a jazz band in London, saying "We went to stay with a friend of a friend’s uncle in London but we came back after three days. We thought we’d make inroads into the jazz scene in London – we’d read biographies about guys who got gigs at Ronnie Scott’s and got spotted and immediately taken into someone’s band. So we told our parents we were leaving home. They gave us two days and we lasted three...". It
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