{"id":441,"date":"2006-02-25T00:39:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-25T00:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2006\/02\/the-mighty-boosh-a-great-british-comedy\/"},"modified":"2006-02-25T00:39:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-25T00:39:00","slug":"the-mighty-boosh-a-great-british-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2006\/02\/the-mighty-boosh-a-great-british-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mighty Boosh: A Great British Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?t=funk02-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=B000C6DCD4&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000ff&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=ffffff&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/td>\n<td><font SIZE=4>I thought I&#8217;d cheer myself up so I went onto Amazon and bought series one and two of The Mighty Boosh, aka Howard Moon and Vince Noir. These beautifully imaginative comedies have me laughing aloud. <\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>The hip Mighty Boosh universe is retro and futuristic, magical and streetwise, subtle and slapstick. It is the surreal comedy genius of Spike Milligan, Monty Python, The Goodies, The Young Ones, Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide, Red Dwarf. It is the flavour of now and it is as old as music hall and pantomime. I have been rolling around and guffawing watching them back to back, having bought myself an early birthday present.<\/p>\n<p>Bizarre, twisted scripts with sublimely psychedelic storylines make this a hugely entertaining TV comedy, with a great double-act. Dour unsuccessful Julian Barratt (Howard) and charming optimistic Noel Fielding (Vince) play a huge array of costumed characters, enjoying all the adventures a BBC comedy budget can provide. <\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>Like Morecombe and Wise and Laurel and Hardy before them, the two main protagonists enjoy a love-hate male relationship, and their intimate patter plays hilariously on human foibles: jealousy, petty vanity, selfishness, conceit, ambition, lust, pride, betrayal, immorality and bad fashion choices. Barratt and Fielding take a gentle, childlike delight in all they do, however daft, which makes them very watchable. And daft much of it is, but wonderfully funny moments of pathos and some strangely disturbing glimpses of darker dimensions kick this way out of the student-only stoned zone and into the great starry place where such timeless comedy goes on forever and the moon speaks to you covered in mashed potato.<\/td>\n<td><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?t=funk02-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=B0009YVC7W&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000ff&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=ffffff&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Tight ensemble acting, vibrant design (based on Fielding&#8217;s illustrations) and the best comedy songs I&#8217;ve heard in years make this unmissable. I really like them so much, I thought I&#8217;d immediately change my &#8220;no advertising on Blog of Funk&#8221; policy, so I did. Buy these DVDs and laugh your socks off. <\/p>\n<p>Blog of Funk Rating: <b>Johnny &#8220;Guitar&#8221; Watson.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><font SIZE=1><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/The Mighty Boosh\" rel=\"tag\">The Mighty Boosh<\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/comedy\" rel=\"tag\">comedy<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I&#8217;d cheer myself up so I went onto Amazon and bought series one and two of The Mighty Boosh, aka Howard Moon and Vince Noir. These beautifully imaginative comedies have me laughing aloud. The hip Mighty Boosh universe is retro and futuristic, magical and streetwise, subtle and slapstick. It is the surreal comedy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[780],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funky-original","tag-funky-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}