I saw Fielding do stand-up at my uni about a decade ago. It was similar to this - no direction, mostly surreal and, at that point, seemingly made up on the spot. Overall it was unfunny. I didn't watch the Mighty Boosh because of it but eventually liked it when I did, mainly because the surreal elements he injected added to the whole. He seems now to have gone back to his own thing which mirrors his stand-up and has returned to being terrible.
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Yes, that's definitely part of the appeal for me.
Last night's episode was more of the same: enjoyable and not particularly funny [the wonderful exception being the Fantasy Man 'flip'
]. And I do think he's got more talent at voices [i.e. what makes certain voices/accents/delivery funnier than others] than he gets credit for.
Wow... if you need meaning in your comedy, you are in deepest Wrongplace with Fielding!
I get random comedy, Ross Noble is the king of random comedy, he can make you laugh just by saying "There's a face, next muffin"
But Noel Fielding, just no
Weirdly, I just imagined Ross Noble saying "the mountain is tutting again" and I laughed, must be his accent or something
Aye, it's long been accepted that Northern accents [in fact, anything from Birmingham upwards] are perceived as inherently more funny than those from the Southern bit.
Though of course, there are always going to be exceptions [Eddie Izzard and Simon Evans are the first to spring to mind], which suggest that delivery and context have some importance too.
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hmm
Atleast its not phoneshop
Atleast its not phoneshop
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Yes, there is that at least.
This show don't make me laugh like the boosh does, but for some reason i like to watch it because it's stupidly random? Even though i don't find it that funny, i dunno its weird and i expected a bit more from it. I missed Thursdays ep.
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Love this show, watched it go out live and have since watched back on 4oD. I can totally see why people would hate it but hey, vive la difference!!
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Just watched the first ep of this. I thought it was pretty painful but I wasn't expecting anything else.
I loved The Boosh(the radio show especially is brilliant!) but have never really been a Fielding fan tbh, it is pretty obvious that Julian Barret is the one who knows what he is doing and Noel Fielding does not work without him to bounce off.
I loved The Boosh(the radio show especially is brilliant!) but have never really been a Fielding fan tbh, it is pretty obvious that Julian Barret is the one who knows what he is doing and Noel Fielding does not work without him to bounce off.
I enjoyed the Boosh but the adverts for this put me off as too much Fielding doesn't appeal to me. I might smirk at some of his stuff but as others have said, without a straightman to bounce things off the show seems to be missing something.
The fly thing was painful to watch. I liked the Boosh, but I'm not getting in to this one. It just seems entirely disjointed, and the funny bits are few and far between.