Comedy written and performed by Julian and Noel Fielding. Six episodes broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001.
Where do you begin describing The Mighty Boosh’ to someone coming at it cold? Some random samples of dialogue should give you an idea.
“I talk to the animals. I’ve got the gift. I’m like Mowgli in flares”
“Your logic is making me look like a dick”
“Do you want to visit the lions little boy? Come over here and put on this meat suit”
“The loneliness, the emptiness, the endless-ness”
“The written word is like a drug. If you cut me, I bleed ink!”
It’s the only show that makes Monty Python and Spike Milligan appear normal and is probably the spiritual successor of The Goodies or the Goon Show. And it’s so good, Boosh sits comfortably among those loft comparisons.
The series follows zoo keepers Howard Moon, a jazz obsessed virgin and Vince Noir, an ultra vain mod with ridiculous hair. The two must deal with the bizarre mood swings of their boss Bob Fossil (Rich Fulcher) who runs the Zoo. Their adventures include a journey into the forbidden areas of the zoo, an encounter (and possession) with the ghost of jazz, and a memorable run in with the zoo’s newest innovation – mutants.
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