Just finished watching Series 3. Quite like Howard but loathe Vince. Apart from sexy Naboo, what other reason to watch? Is it meant to be funny?

I think series 1 and most of series 2 are quite good silly comedy. Series 3 forgot to have any fun in it at all and seemed to be going for shock value.

I know a lot of people think it's puerile, hipsterish and lolrandom, but I think there's a place for that. I don't think everybody needs to deny their inner sixth-former.

If anybody else needs something damning with faint praise, I'm available during afternoon until late.

It was mainly loathed here it's heyday, largely due to it's self consciousness about being the heir to the Python/Goodie type crown and the irritating fashionable baseless whimsy of Fielding. I do think it was pretty funny when it was good though. I agree with the consensus that earlier the better. Series 3 isn't awful or anything, but there's a creeping smugness and nastiness seeping in by the end that makes it less fun.

It seems more generally respected (by those who know it obv) in the US, where it's another cult thing that it's cool to have heard of. With a bit more push and visibility (like a film) they could have really broken through there. Watching recent interviews with Fielding, you get the impression he feels frustrated that they were on the edge of making it much bigger when Barrett stepped back and the momentum was torpedoed. Luxury Comedy seems a bit like an ersatz 4th and 5th series when Fielding realised new Booshventures weren't likely to materialise anytime soon. Apparently there is a recorded C. 2009 Boosh music album that wasn't released at the time and languishes unheard cos it missed coming at on time for the zeitgeist.

The punk / jazz episode was the high point of series 3 imo. The party episode where they revealed Howard was a virgin is a good example of the creeping nastiness ajsmith mentions (I think). Also where once you'd get these one time off the wall funny characters they started bringing these back, Tony Harrison etc and it was just all beginning to feel a bit tired. I would of loved to have seen where a fourth series went, given how huge it was continuing it to get.

As an aside, I used to work with a bloke who went and got himself covered in Boosh themed tattoos. This was a while after I'd stopped working there, thank god for twitter and people who feel they have to share everything. Enjoy...

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The radio series and series 1 are the height. Series 2 is very good as well but feel the 3rd is just ok. Haven't watched it in a while mind you.

love it

I never really got around to series 3.

Quote from: ArtParrott on September 30, 2016, 04:41:37 PM
The punk / jazz episode was the high point of series 3 imo. The party episode where they revealed Howard was a virgin is a good example of the creeping nastiness ajsmith mentions (I think).

Quote from: ArtParrott on September 30, 2016, 04:41:37 PM


That's exactly the episode I was thinking of!

Quote from: Malcy on September 30, 2016, 05:34:58 PM
The radio series and series 1 are the height. Series 2 is very good as well but feel the 3rd is just ok. Haven't watched it in a while mind you.

I agree with the above statement.

It's of it's time isn't it? When 'random' comedy was still a good thing (it was way behind the times when you consider Big Night Out though)

Series 3 is fucking wank but series 1 is ace and series 2 better than most comedy at the time but still not brilliant.

It's all about Julian Barret though isn't it? He's the man, the actual creative mind behind it all. Love that guy.

I saw Noel Fielding do a stand up (on telly, I lived in Cornwall, I don't go to comedy clubs like you london lot) and thought he was a perfect representation of LOLrandom non comedy. I fucking hate forced LOLrandom.

Edit. That said the stag weekend episode was great. We are the magic men, we stay up 'til 5am

Hated them initially, series one I thought was dreadfully thin at times and only really enjoyed the scenes with moon and noir bickering.

Thought the visual aspect was a lot better in series 2 and 3 so the actual adventures were less dull. 2 probably the best series. 3 had some decent moments though.

Some of the live stuff was weak as fuck though.. Was so disappointed.

They were really terrible live. Dolphin rape jokes. Yeah brilliant

I've always thought Boosh seemed to be unfairly reviled on this forum. Noel Fielding seems to get a bad rap because he's become a mainstream parody of himself, but I think his work with Barratt on Boosh really shines through and they compliment each other well - the show has a really unique visual style, it's dripping with atmosphere and I would argue there's nothing else like it. The dip in quality is really obvious if you watch Boosh then Luxury Comedy, the latter of which seems to be a bunch of sketches lifted almost directly from Vic and Bob - but I think that's more a reflection of Fielding getting too big, too comfortable, not aiming high enough and not having someone to rein him in a bit. I for one would love to see more Boosh.

Quote from: Mass_Panic on September 30, 2016, 09:08:23 PM
Noel Fielding seems to get a bad rap because he's become a mainstream parody of himself, but I think his work with Barratt on Boosh really shines through and they compliment each other well -

This explained things better than I did

Quote from: DrGreggles on September 30, 2016, 08:09:01 PM
I agree with the above statement.

As do I.

Series 1 definitely the best by far. The zoo was a perfect backdrop and Bob Fossil and Dixon Bainbridge were great characters too.

I loved it but don't think I even watched all of Series 3. It felt like we were supposed to find Vince a bit of a twat in Series 1 but later admire how cool he was (wat with him being Noel Fielding and all).

Shite beyond redemption.

I want to keep my warm, fuzzy, mid-teen memories intact by not re-visiting this show, particularly as it was the seemingly reviled S3 that I watched first and piqued my interest.

I wrote and directed better Vic-&-Bob-influenced stuff with my schoolfriends and a handheld camera between the ages of 11 and 15.

Never got into it. Watched a few episodes and didn't find them funny at all - just strange little jokes that didn't really seem to have any weight or humour. I think the only thing I enjoyed about the show was the surreal art style and the psychedelic word it all inhabited. The rest just didn't appeal to me. It felt like something I may have enjoyed when I was at school or something. Everyone raved about it though, so I guess it did have something going for it, but it had nothing for me.

I saw the first 10 minutes of an episode[nb]s3e01 if anyone's interested.[/nb] on UKGold earlier before changing channels.  What a load of utter wank.

Quote from: Avril Lavigne on October 01, 2016, 12:11:15 AMI wrote and directed better Vic-&-Bob-influenced stuff with my schoolfriends and a handheld camera between the ages of 11 and 15.

We've finally discovered, you're either Ant or Dec!

Quote from: Dr Syntax Head on September 30, 2016, 08:47:02 PM
They were really terrible live. Dolphin rape jokes. Yeah brilliant

Saw one of their live shows on telly.  Liked the response of one of them to a heckler: 'Be quiet-or I will fly at you, like a sackful of cocks!'

Quote from: Phoenix Lazarus on October 01, 2016, 08:46:57 AM
Saw one of their live shows on telly.  Liked the response of one of them to a heckler: 'Be quiet-or I will fly at you, like a sackful of cocks!'

On a motorbike made of jealousy.

Quote from: Glebe on October 01, 2016, 03:38:58 AM
We've finally discovered, you're either Ant or Dec!

Haha, I just assumed when I was writing that post that most folks here could say the same about themselves.  I'm sure a lot of comedy fans have attempted writing/performing at one point or another.  I remember seeing the Boosh TV series for the first time and thinking it seemed more like the work of teenagers than men in their thirties.

I went to see their live show with some friends who were fans because the tickets were free and I had nothing better to do, and the main thing I remember about it was Fielding being chased around by a man in a rabbit costume while a song about 'rabbit rape' played.

I had a friend who loved it and did that thing of almost forcing me to sit down and watch it while telling me how funny it was, so I had no chance, but I wouldn't have liked it anyway. Even though we watched it right from the start (about 4 or 5 episodes of series 1) I kept thinking I'd missed something and the jokes must be a callback or a running thing, but they weren't. The bit where someone's hat was on fire was alright but other than that I think you have to have either seen little or no comedy before or fancy Noel Fielding to enjoy it.

I thought Series 3 was very poor. A lot of the problem, as already pointed out, is that Vince goes from being vain and dim to being a pretty cool character, while Howard remains deluded and snobbish, which throws off the somewhat Hancock/James-style balance it  had in the first two seasons.  The music is significantly worse in Series 3 too, and a lot of the humour is self-satisfied or nasty.

I think that the design aspects (stage, set and costumes) are actually very enjoyable in the first two series and a lot of the music is very good, and the two are combined very successfully in the title sequence.

The music hasn't had enough of a mention in this thread.
I think the majority of it is fantastic.

If I has to choose a favourite it would be:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C64Y7GSDQvw

That version stops too soon though. Just as it gets going in fact.

I really liked the radio show and quite liked the first series of the tv show but once it lost the Vic & Bob aesthetic in the second season then it went downhill. The second season just looked a lot more professional and so I thought they were a lot less funny.

Oh and Rich Fulcher is fucking cancer. Like a poor man's Rich Snider.

Dog shit rolled in pastry. Twenty minutes gas mark 5.