The Mighty Boosh - Series 2 DVD

Advantages: Inspired, genius, surreal comedy. Great fun.
Disadvantages: Many jokes just die on their legs, and some of the acting is a mite wooden

...Space…… It's actually the Law to start a review of The Mighty Boosh is such a fashion. The second series of The Mighty Boosh is a step up for the duo, but a step down for the budget. For some reason, as we find in the extras, the budget was downgraded after the first series, leaving even less money for Noel's hair than there was during the first series. However, this hasn't dimmed the Boosh's vision for comedy: if anything it's broadened it, from ...
...of Youth, the eccentric genius of the team has never been more free. But I'm getting ahead of myself. The Mighty Boosh are a team made primarily of comics Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt. After meeting in London, the duo joined together and formed a stage show, which won wide acclaim at Edinburgh. Joined by Rich Fulcher, a mad American, Dave Brown, a slightly more sane Englishman, Fielding's brother Michael, and Michael Fielding's mate Leroy (he ... Read review

Advantages: It's wacky, surreal and still really funny
Disadvantages: But not as good as the sublime first series

...Or gone searching through the desert for a "new sound" and turned into an eagle? Or accidentally summoned up an evil granny demon when looking through a book of black magic? No? Well, it's all in a day's work for Howard Moon and Vince Noir, in this, the second series of their hit comedy show The Mighty Boosh. The main premise is that Vince (Noel Fielding) and Howard (Julien Barratt) are now musicians in their own right, after moving away from the ...
...by Noel's brother Michael)and Bollo the gorilla. However, their career as an electro band is going disastrously, leaving them with plenty of time in between gigs to go on some more surreal adventures and meet crazy characters. There are reprisals for Rudi Van Disarzio, the jazz fusion guitarist with a door in his head, and the cockney green hitcher. But there are also plenty of new creations, such as Sandstorm (made of sandpaper); Rudi's companion, ... Read review

Advantages: very funny, different, great characters and songs
Disadvantages: need more episodes

...Boosh 2 Once again the Mighty Boosh has delivered another hilarious series full of more crazy characters and more outrageous adventures. The series even sees Vince with a new hairstyle as well as faces from the past. Background The series has been written and also stars Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt. Mighty Boosh has been on stage shows, a BBC radio series and a BBC Three TV series. The show first appeared at the Edinburgh Festival in 1998 ...
...a Douglas Adams Award for the series on Radio 4. The name of the show came from Noel’s and Mike’s Portuguese friend who said Mike’s hair (Noels brother who also stars in the series) was like a mighty boosh, meaning a mighty bush! After the success of series 1, Noel and Julian decided to change the boosh by having it set in a flat instead of the zoo in series 1. This allowed the stories to go straight into the adventure which improves the show. This ... Read review

Advantages: 6 of the best boosh episodes, much better comedy than the first series
Disadvantages: no to evryone taste

The Mighty Boosh are a British comedy group made up of Julian Barratt, Noel Fielding, Rich Fulcher, Bollo, and Michael Fielding. They are a cult comedy show that originally started on stage displaying their crazy and often psychotic comedy and plots. They soon made it to the television with two series on the BBC. The name apparently comes from a remark that Michael Fielding’s friend made about his once curly hair where he referred to it as the ‘Might ...
...stuck. In all the episodes there are the five main characters. Howard Moon played by Julian Barratt who is lonely, sad, he’s the jazz man. In this series he and Vince try their hand at becoming musicians, but they usually fail. Often Howard is the victim who gets rescued by Vince and his glorious situations always end in embarrassment. Vince Noir (Noel Fielding) is the cool one with ‘Mod’ hair and is a hit with the ladies. He is laid back (because ... Read review

Advantages: Great costumes, music, and laughs
Disadvantages: Not QUITE as good as the first series

*The Mighty Boosh* The Mighty Boosh is called by its creators, Noel Fielding and Julian Barrat, a "trip-com". It's a unique but brilliant comedy, one of the best out there at the moment, and anyone into silly, slightly surreal yet witty humour will appreciate it immensely. The Mighty Boosh follows the lives of two zoo keepers, Howard Moon (Barrat) the jazz lover and intellectual, and Vince Noir (Fielding), "rock ponce" and cheeky cockney, who always ...
...*Background to the Boosh* The Boosh started over six years ago in Theatre pubs and comedy evenings. Noel discovered someone who shared his strange sense of humour and he and Julian have been inseparable. Rich Fuller (who plays Bob Fossil and various cameos in Series Two) and Noel's brother Michael Fielding (who plays Naboo) joined the crew and there first series was shown on BBC Three. The series came on BBC Two but at such strange and varying times, ... Read review