Surfrider wrote:it often feels like sixth-form student, sub, sub, Monty Python humour alot of the time

Ill thought out whimsical stoooodent crap. How these cunts got commissioned for 4 BBC series is beyond me. I've listened to all 6 episodes in the gmail account, and the only thing that made me laugh was a one liner about vince looking like a girl.

I guess if you're into poorly done american accents and the belief that certain words are intrinsically funny this might be a good show to watch or listen to.]

And Richard Ayoade is in one of the radio episodes, as if the two Boosh cunts weren't bad enough on their own.

I could write better comedy. In fact, I'm pretty sure I have written better comedy. Perhaps one day you might hear it.

CRAP

The last episode of the second series makes anything crap Mighty Boosh may or may not have made/done completely irrelevant. That episode is pure comedy genius, i think i actually pissed myself about 10 times watching it, as well as spilling beer everywhere.

American accents? eyyy?

I had seen one episode of this before and loved it but recently started to watch some reruns on BBC 3. I laughed my arse off. Its great!

(post prompted by someone saying this decades comedy is rubbish. I disagree (though there is an awful lot of cack))

This decade has given us a second series of Partridge, The Office, Extras, League of Gentlemen, Borat, Boosh, Barley and probably a couple of others I'm forgetting. All these are Not Crap in my book.

Earwicker wrote:This decade has given us a second series of Partridge, The Office, Extras, League of Gentlemen, Borat, Boosh, Barley and probably a couple of others I'm forgetting. All these are Not Crap in my book.

wise words Mr Earwicker, although that 2nd series of Partridge was, I feel, shit. A shame, as the 1st series was as good as British sitcoms get.

Mighty Boosh is great. I like the music too. Also, as a bonus point, when I went to see them live I was stunned by the richest collection of lovely looking girls I've seen since I was in Norway.

night_tools wrote:Ill thought out whimsical stoooodent crap. How these cunts got commissioned for 4 BBC series is beyond me. I've listened to all 6 episodes in the gmail account, and the only thing that made me laugh was a one liner about vince looking like a girl.

I guess if you're into poorly done american accents and the belief that certain words are intrinsically funny this might be a good show to watch or listen to.]

And Richard Ayoade is in one of the radio episodes, as if the two Boosh cunts weren't bad enough on their own.

I could write better comedy. In fact, I'm pretty sure I have written better comedy. Perhaps one day you might hear it.

CRAP

No offence dude, but if you don't find the Boosh even vaguely funny I don't wanna hear your comedy.

And for the record, the only American accent I can remember being in it is Rich Fulcher (Bob Fossil). He is American.

Edd Tastyhead wrote:

night_tools wrote:Ill thought out whimsical stoooodent crap. How these cunts got commissioned for 4 BBC series is beyond me. I've listened to all 6 episodes in the gmail account, and the only thing that made me laugh was a one liner about vince looking like a girl.

I guess if you're into poorly done american accents and the belief that certain words are intrinsically funny this might be a good show to watch or listen to.]

And Richard Ayoade is in one of the radio episodes, as if the two Boosh cunts weren't bad enough on their own.

I could write better comedy. In fact, I'm pretty sure I have written better comedy. Perhaps one day you might hear it.

CRAP

No offence dude, but if you don't find the Boosh even vaguely funny I don't wanna hear your comedy.

And for the record, the only American accent I can remember being in it is Rich Fulcher (Bob Fossil). He is American.

I wouldn't be as harsh as Night Tools, but his general sentiment is one that I agree with: it does feel like slightly intellectualised student silliness. The "slightly intellectualised" part comes from the always-signposted ironic distance they keep from the silliness of the material, which I take to be a poor trick. It is as if to say that they themselves do not take the material seriously.

At least when, say, Spike Milligan was being ridiculously silly, he had the grace and conviction to throw himself into it whole-heartedly. I see no conviction in The Mighty Boosh except one towards an infuriating winking at the audience: stop winking at me, you scruffy bastards! Make better stories and better jokes!

As a comic actor, from Nathan Barley I know that the one with the moustache has talent that is under-exploited in this show. The one with the big hair and the constant smirk is irredeemably annoying and inexplicably ubiquitous. His main quality appears to be to assume a simulacram of popular coolness and advertise the fact that he likes funk and electro. Oh, well done pal...

I did enjoy the one with with Flirtinis in, though.

Edit: Having just read what I wrote, I'm taken aback by my own vitriol. I don't hate The Mighty Boosh. I am, however, slightly irked by the praise heaped on it. This is an irrational reason to get bilious.

Rubbish

Peaches Geldof

I don't like this show. It seems like it was made just for students who over and misuse the word random.

My friend made me sit down and watch an episode recently because he couldn't believe I didn't like it. It was the one where they pretend to be goths to impress some girls. The only thing that made me laugh was some line about shitting on a swan. Other than that it was just tiresome.

Crap.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IjGNJPNyzU

So funny in the context of the show.

Also, the line "The shark would dry out!" from the radio tundra episode had me eyes watering.

NC WF2 for a pretty weak third season.