My latest obsession: The Boosh
 

Went looking for a Boosh clip for ZenGum in another thread (rabbit rape clip).

So, have now ended up wasting an hour and a half watching clips from the tv show The Mighty Boosh.

Now I am compelled to inflict it onto you as per my usual strategy when gaining a minor obsession. So...

Any of you who haven't yet encountered the Boosh, a few words of explanation:

The Mighty Boosh started out as a radio show then transferred to tv. It's very strange. Utterly surreal. The nominal 'situation' for the comedy is a zoo. Vince Noir and Howard Moon work atthe zoo. Howard Moon is sort of Vince's mentor...or thinks he is. The show takes very strange and bizarre turns. Vince's brother is a shamen with a stall in the zoo and brings in all manner of strange companions. The animals sometimes talk. The characters wander into odd places. The set-up of zoo is tenuous and yet encompassing. There are worlds within the world of the zoo.

Second series they unhooked themselves from the zoo and managed the shamen's new oddities shop. This setting is even less able to anchor them to any kind of sane reality and the shows invariably spiral into madness.

So...a selection of clips.

Clip 1: Howard has been backed into a nasty situation. He's been persuaded to get into the ring with a vicious kangaroo. Vince has been training him up in boxing, down atthe gym. But he ain't ready and Vince knows it.

This looks great! Thanks for the link. Your TV is so much better than most of the crap on American TV.

Clip 2.

At the shop in the second series. Vince takes outfit advice from Naboo's business partner and best friend (one of the apes from the zoo who elected to come with him).

Clip 3. Series 1.

Howard's been taken over by the Yetis

And just in case you thought this was all light and pleasant:

Let me introduce to one of the most unpleasant comedy characters in Noel Fielding's repertoire:

And finally: This is some of the most impressive parody ever.

K. I'm gonna leave it there before I break teh interwebz.

Oh that's just not true. The most exciting television, the stuff that's shattering the old rules and laying down new and interesting paths is mostly coming out of the States. Comedy, we do very well. But drama we have lagged far behind. Every two or three years we do something worth picking up on in drama. Apart from period drama, we just don't prioritise it in our tv production any more.

Battlestar Galactica, Dexter, The Wire. They've torn up the rules around episodic television and created a whole new game. They demand more of their audience than ever before. We've got a few submissions like Life on Mars...but tv moves fast and it's a good while since our lot innovated in anything but period and children's drama.

Actually, there is one interesting comedy/drama submission from our lot. Being Human. That was different.

Planet Earth was one of the best. I do believe that was a BBC production, no?

Planet Earth was a documentary wasn't it?

I'm talking about drama and comedy. Non-fictive programmes we're very good at.

We get The Mighty Boosh down under, and I've recently been keeping an eye one it, but it is on a bit late on weeknights. :mecry:

I hadn't known about the first series at the zoo, the gorilla character makes more sense now. With all the other weird stuff, I just accepted it as part of the background weirdness.

Haven't we had "Old Greg" references here?

Dana, don't forget Dr Who. And console yourself, that as much as The Bill has jumped the shark, it is still better than Neighbours or Home and Away.

Dr Who is childrens drama. That's one thing BBC does very well.

Yes, it was.

Yes it is.