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     Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
Last evensong the missus and I travelled up to Newcastle to see the new Boosh stageshow. It was superb: inspired, energetic, imaginative, funny, daft, endearingly clumsy, creative and strangely life-affirming, and at times even breathtaking. The highlight of the show was the decapitation of that "plagaristic yellow twat" Honey Monster carried out by Noel Fielding whilst riding an oversized hairdryer. Random observations: Noel Felding wants to be a rock star, Julian Barratt is oddly cool, Rich Fulcher (Bob Fossil) is the true star of the show. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.179.141 |
Sounds like a great evening, Zed. I just finished watching the third series on DVD, finally - great stuff! | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.179.141 |
p/s Was Bollo there? | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.157.91.96 |
Tony didn't like all of it - did you meet up? | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
Yep, Bollo was there. He fell over at one point.  During the performance I turned to my wife and said "Tony will be hating this".  We didn't meet up with T; he never got back to me to arrange anything. We couldn't get there until just before kick-off anyway, so it wouldn't have been possible. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
You should have turned your back on him. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.44.101.224 |
I keep wanting to meet folk but always back out. Too shy. Sorry, Zed - it's nothing personal.  | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
I'm afraid I am going to have to turn my back on you...  Tony, we've already met once, you silly sausage. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
Tony, come back from the Arctic Tundra! | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.43.119.113 |
All I've seen of The Mighty Boosh was a sketch on Jonathan Ross's show (Jonathan who..?). I watched it stoney faced...Sorry guys, I didn't get it. Guess I'm uncool... gcw | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.43.119.113 |
Tony, the scariest thing about this bunch is the amount of beer they can drink! gcw | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.44.101.224 |
It was great seeing them but to be honest they squeeze more fun and imagination into an episode on the telly. It's funny, but I've decided I don't really like arena shows, or even gigs. I think I prefer telly for everything apart from the pictures. And why do comedians swear more on stage? I don't mind it but it feels like a gap where a joke could have been. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
GCW, exactly what I thought about Boosh first time I saw it. It's a slow burner. I had the same experience with The Office and League of Gentlemen. Non-immediate comedy is often the best. If you find yourself scratching your head rather than declaring it crap, you're probably missing something...which comes to you with perseverance. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.137.88 |
Non-immediate comedy is often the best. I feel the same about music - often the one that grabs me straight away palls after a few listens, but the ones that take some time to get to me, stay there. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.44.101.224 |
Yeah, telly boosh is great. I wasn't keen on the last series but I'll give it another go because the first took a while. Even to watching the same ep again. It's all little nuances. BTW I loved their banter at the gig, and the songs. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.44.101.224 |
Thing is, some instantly great music can also stay great! Maybe there's a difference between 'seems great' and 'is great'... | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
 this is my friend Mr Lightswitch. he lives in thee Manchester apollo. He's feeling very depressed at the moment because he's had to put up with 2 nights of the Mighty Boosh so far and he's got another 2 to go. he thinks they're as funny as waking up in a pool of someone elses vomit. I went there last night and, even though I don't pay to get in, I felt ripped off. These guys are just not funny. They have no charisma or stage presence. Their delivery was flat and monotonic. Surrealism is not a substitute for humour unless you have perfoming talent which these guys have not got. It was slap-dash, there was fuckup after fuckup on stage. Noel getting stuck in the chair while playing the alien head with tentacles (the image which was ripped off completely from Das Boom episode of family guy) was one example. The funniest thing thast happened in the first half was a member of the audeince showed up late to his seat at the front of the auditorium with a 2 foot long mohican. I don't know about the second half b ecause I retired to the first aid room with a good book (Worldstorm by James Lovegrove). It could be I'm missing the point but IMHO these guys are shit. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.53.174 |
No - they can be good, but on perhaps only on telly (and maybe radio even more - their radio show was quite magical). This show was incredibly slapdash, relying far too much on mistakes (which I have now learned happened at every gig) and comedy inadequacy. I was sad to realise they were making a fast buck like so many folk who do these arena gigs, which I think are just catering to people who want to see some famous people. A shame, because after having seen Tennant and Stewart in Hamlet, I've come to realise that seeing a group of people and technicians working their hardest can enrich your life, and anything less should not even be shown, let alone allowed to get this far. I was bored with this show, and to top it off I later saw a very old woman in the street (around midnight) playing the recorder for money, sitting on the ground. I gave her a quid but would rather she had the £35 I'd just given the Shitey Boosh to be honest. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
See, I loved it. Different tastes, and all that... | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
"endearingly clumsy"? Annoyingly unprofessionally sloppy more like | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.76.229 |
Mighty Boosh is like Bovril: you either like it or you don't. I personally find it refreshingly different, and if not exactly laugh out loud funny, amusing enough in a slightly canted way to keep watching. Can live without the Yank, tho... | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.76.229 |
And sometimes it's quite disturbing. Crack Fox, anyone? | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.53.174 |
Like I said - I love it on telly. We have the dvds. I love them on radio. But the show felt hodge-podge, slapdash. Not entirely bad, just a lost opportunity. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.53.174 |
it felt like it should have had some sort of quality control. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 129.11.76.229 |
Fair enough. I remember thinking this about the later Bottom tours. As if they were cobbled together from old bits of rejected script. Can't comment on the new Boosh tour, but I have seen the first one on DVD: self-indulgent but inspired on enough occasions to be enjoyable. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
I saw the last Bottom tour and it was tons better than the Boosh.Even if the script was cobbled together, you could see that plenty of work had gone into it. I won't insult amateur theatre by saying the Boosh show was amateurish, none of the groups I've ever been involved with would have allowed a show as badly presented as last night to happen. It felt like there was no effort going into it - I mean that in the worst possible way - Rather than saying it looked effortless, I'm saying they weren't trying. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.53.174 |
Weber - those were my feelings. Thing is, I laughed when it was just the two of them having a go at each other, but the big set pieces were just really flat. And yes, my wife's ex drama group were really shoddy but they still managed to feel as if they were making an effort. I liked the opening Future Sailor bit but it never got any better. If only they'd not rushed it out because they do have imagination. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.156.130 |
The first two Bottom shows were great, but we missed the third as it never came to London - fourth and fifth were ok, but only that. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
My point exactly. they were tons better than Mighty Boosh if they were just OK. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=v3AHIxfPoDE Wonderful... | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.156.130 |
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rSDFUAoKmxI&feature=related "ooh, that's a bit of a nasty nick, isn't it?"... | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
I remember seeing the early version of the Bottom sketches. 24 years ago (God I'm old), when I was 16, I went to see a Rik Mayall live show called "Kevin Turvey and the Bastard Squad". I didn't know until I got there, but only the first half was the Turvey character; the rest was taken up by Young Ones sketches and a sort of beta version of the Bottom characters. It was brilliant. The funniest show I've ever seen. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 204.104.55.244 |
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rSDFUAoKmxI&feature=related "ooh, that's a bit of a nasty nick, isn't it?"... Just seeing that again makes me want to do a marathon of the whole thing. They are so brilliant. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.156.130 |
Zed - you may have seen them doing their "Dangerous Brothers" sketches which they were doing around that time. I recall the Turvey character doing weekly 'reviews' on some programme or other. "Kevin's 'ere"! An enjoyable precursor to Bottom was 1988's Comic Strip Presents show called "Mr Jolly Lives Next Door" - hilarious and bloody; what more could you ask for? | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.156.130 |
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DKM4jrgS0ww | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
Greatest ever Bottom episode is the one in which they're stuck on the Ferris Wheel: bed-wettingly funny. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
Kevin Turvey was Mayall's greatest ever character. I loved it. Mick - aye, the Dangerous Brothers were just Bottom with different character names. | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
My favorite lines in Bottom are: Policeman to Eddie: Do you realise sir, that that newspaper is upside-down? Eddie: Yes. So are my eyes! AND Richie to Eddie dressed as the grim reaper: How do you know all these things? Eddie: I'm death! Richie: I'm sorry, I said HOW DO YOU KNOW ALL THESE THINGS? There's also a terrific line in the Young Ones Woman to Neil in the graveyard: Excuse me, do you dig graves? Neil: Yeah, yeah they're pretty groovy. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 85.158.139.99 |
Greatest ever Bottom episode is the one in which they're stuck on the Ferris Wheel: Yep, it's my favourite too - although various friends who like the series don't like that one, and prefer eps set in the flat. The one where Eddie is forging money is pretty good too, as is the pheremone one (the first ever episode) with Ade using pliers to get the hairs out of Rik's nostrils. And the birthday one - "that's not Russian; you've just written it with the 'r' back to front" - "that's what Russian is!"... | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
The Xmas one you YouTube above is a classic. "...and I'm a virgin!...That's why I never got a shag!" I also like the Camcorder Catastrophe episode. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
"Gold...Frankenstein...and Grrr!" | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.156.130 |
..and it's thirteen years since the last series. Argh... | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.156.130 |
I never knew this though:- "Despite Richie and Eddie seemingly being killed at the end of season three (something which also happened in the episode "Hole", only for them to reappear unharmed in the following episode), a fourth season was written, but turned down by the BBC." | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
Yeah, I read that. I suspect a lot of the material has turned up in the roadshows, tho. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
Did you see the Ade Edmonson sit-com on ITV, Mick? Not great, but some Bottomesque moments throughout. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.156.130 |
Was that the "dad living with his kid(s) after getting divorced" one, Gary? If so, I heard several episodes in its earlier guise as a radio show and wasn't that impressed, to be honest. I tried the first episode of the tv series as well but it seemed really stilted and the supporting cast were only so-so, I thought. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
Smug, middle-class rubbish, I thought. |