Mighty Boosh is a British comical series broadcasted on the Television, starring Julian Barrett, Michael Fielding, Noel Fielding, Dave Brown and Rich Filcher. Directed by Paul King, produced by Baby Cow Producers, it is a comedy fantasy which contains humor and pop-culture references. The series centers on the interesting adventures of Noir and Moon (Barrett). Noir and Moon are the key characters in the series and are depicted as the original creators of the Mighty Boosh themselves.
The Mighty Boosh soon made a transition from the show at a radio to T.V. in 2004, and was soon named as the eight episode T.V. series “Mighty Boosh” and was also commissioned by BBC. The Series one, of the show in television was expanded on radio series and was first broadcasted on the popular BBC three. In the USA, it was aired in Adult Swim on March 29, 2009.
The second of the series soon began on the same BBC three on 26th July, 2005 with a comparatively small budget. Later the DVD version of Series one was released on 29th August, 2005. Their second series was released on February 13th 2006.
The third series was aired on BBC three from 15th November in the year 2007. The DVD version of this was also released on the 11th February.
The main or the “central cast” consists of the five characters viz. Moon (Julian Barrett), Noel Fielding as Vince Noir, Nabob (Michael Fielding), Bolo (Peter Elliot ’04 and Dave Brown ’05 to present), Rich Filcher as Bob Fossil. Some of the Recurring Casts include Noel Fielding as the Moon, The Hitcher and Tony Harrison. Richard Ayoade as Saboo, Matt Berry as Dixon Bainbridge, Julian Barrett as Rudi van DiSarzio, Rich Filcher as Lester Corncrake, Dennis (Julian Barrett), Kirk Gaitskell-Kendrick) as Kirk and Noel Fielding as Old Gregg.
Some of the Notable actors and actresses who made guest appearance include: Sue Denim and Dee Plume, Razorlight, Horrors (“The Chokes”), Gary Numan and Roger Daltrey.
The series history and their notable works and roles include Mighty Boosh (stage show, 1998), Arctic Boosh (1999), Autoboosh (2001), The Boosh(2001).Mighty Boosh (TV series, 2004-present), The mighty Boosh Live (2006), Boosh Live (2008-09).
The subjects include Surrealism, fashion victims, fantasy.
The Boosh was about to be conceived, when Fielding was impressed by the solo performance of Barratt in a club, in famous Wycombe theatre. Both persons soon became good friends as they shared good comic interests and thus formed a duo act, and also decided to make new Goodies. Soon after the pair’s first act at a popular bar in United Kingdom in 1998 April, Fielding and Barratt built their important zookeeper characters- Vince and Howard for Paramounts comedies Unnatural act. Here they found Fulcher, who became Bob Fossil. It was the time when Fielding’s good friend Brown also became their teammate and so did his brother Michael. Richard Ayoade, an important cast in the series, was another guy who played the vital role of the great adventurer Bainbridge, even though later was replaced by actor Matt Berry during their first TV show, since Berry was in contract with some other channel. But Berry made a good comeback in second and the third seasons as a shaman and Saboo.
Later, The team produced three entertaining stage shows in 1998, 1999, and 2000 respectively which were also taken to Edinburg Fringe. The grand success of the Autoboosh in the year 2000 was a great boost and the team’s radio series also got commissioned by BBC. The Boosh then got wide attention and was also broadcasted on channel BBC live in 2001 and was later transferred to radio four.
In 2008, an announcement was made that Boosh were planning to for a event to “get dressed up in country for a whole day”, organizing a great one-off festival, with lots of comedians, bands and friends at the famous Hop Farm at the Kent on 5th of July.
