Sunday, May 6, 2012
Sunday, July 26, 2009
USA Travelogue: A Week of "Boosh"
I love looking at pictures of people doing fun things at events I never get to attend. To join the fun virtually, I live vicariously through Flickr. Here's The Boosh's Photostream documenting their promotion.
Julian and Noel also received some press coverage at NYTimes.com.
NYTimes Arts/Television: Comic Cult Strives to Export Itself
NYTimes ArtsBeat: The Mighty Boosh Explains How Comedy Is Created
The DVDs came out on July 21st. Check out details in my previous post about The Boosh.
Next stop, the guys are scheduled to appear on Chelsea Lately on E! Monday night.
Monday, July 20, 2009
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
The Mighty Boosh Coming to US and DVD

To kick off the whirlwind of promotion, Julian Barratt (aka "Howard Moon") and Noel Fielding (aka "Vince Noir") will be appearing on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Wednesday, July 22nd and on Chelsea Lately on July 27th. They'll be at Comic-Con 2009 in San Diego (July 23rd - 26th) at the Adult Swim booth on July 24th and the BBC America Booth on the 25th. See the full itinerary below for their Comic Con appearances.
During Comic Con, there will be a limited supply of tee shirts (only about 200) available for purchase at the BBC America booth for $17, so move all your ironic tee's to the side of your closet to make room, because here it is.
As for the DVDs: The Mighty Boosh Seasons 1 through 3 will each come complete with two discs, packaged with some fun bonus extras. The suggested retail price will be $29.98. Check out the BBC America Shop where they are going for $25.98. Amazon is offering season 1 at $19.99 and seasons 2 and 3 at $24.99.
DVD Details

Season 1 Bonus Features
-Inside the Zooniverse, History of the Boosh, Outtakes, Picture Gallery, Commentary

The Mighty Boosh: Season 2: More epic, mind altering adventures with the fabulous Vince and the jazzy Howard. This is the one with my fave, "The Legend of Old Greg". Pour me a Bailey's.
Season 2 Bonus Features
-The Boosh Tundra, Boosh Publicity, Making Series 2, Outtakes, Interactive Photo Gallery, Deleted Scenes, Sweet, Boosh Music

The Mighty Boosh: Season 3: Vince and Howard are working at the Nabootique, a second hand shop in Dalston. Pink bladder (yes, a talking bladder) Tony Harrison joins the Shamen crew to party large. Personal Fave episode: "Eels".
Season 3 Bonus Features
-Commentary, Making Boosh 3, Boosh Publicity, Deleted Scenes, Mini Royale Promo, Outtakes, Boosh Music
Comic-Con 2009 Mighty Boosh Details:
SAN DIEGO — July 24/25
COMIC-CON Event Schedule:
Friday July 24:
· 2-3 pm: Signing at Adult Swim booth #3351
· 4:45-5:45 pm Panel (Room 6A)
· 11 pm The Mighty Boosh Bash (A full cast DJ Set)
4th and B (345 B st., between State St and
o Tickets $5 adv/$10 door
o Drink tickets ($8 mixed/$5 beer)
o Tickets available at Ticketmaster and Club Box Office
SATURDAY July 25:
· 4:30-5:30 – Signing at BBC America Booth #3629
Watch this space for possible DVD give aways.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Helloooooooo... I'm Eleanor...and I Need Love Squeezins'
The Mighty Boosh airs on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim on Sunday nights at 1:00am et.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Thursday Night Lineup, Human Giant, and Please Watch The Mighty Boosh

However, one freshman show, Parks and Recreation, is still in the throes of its "how do you do" phase. I've stayed silent here about P&C because I'm not yet smitten with the new Amy Poehler comedy. The cast is terrific (Rashida Jones is sweet and Aziz Ansari is usually genius hilarious), but I have to fall into line with the others who say it's like a duplicate copy of the mothership show The Office. The single camera mockumentary formula on television only seems to work with The Office itself. Although the humor is derived from Leslie Knope's (Poehler's) ambitious, plucky and lack of self aware nature, the ongoing premise of trying to get an empty pit turned into a park doesn't conjure empathy or laughs for me. Yet, there was a scene last week where Ann (Jones) and Leslie walk in on the guys playing Guitar Hero that was quite chuckle worthy. So, I'm still holding out for the program to find its legs.
Tonight's episode is entitled "The Reporter". Leslie invites a reporter to interview her for a story on the park project, only to end up sending out the wrong message. When she calls Mark (Paul Schneider) to help save the story, he makes the situation worse.
Parks and Recreation airs on NBC tonight at 9:00pm et/8:00 ct.

The saga of the Michael Scott Paper Company continues tonight in an episode called "Broke". Michael and his crack staff (one who could easily be on Crack), have trouble making early morning deliveries. Meanwhile, everyone tries to get their expense reports in on time, while office tramp and hussy Angela Martin makes everyone follow Dunder Mifflin policy. I guess she has more incentive now that she's trying to impress and bed Charles Minor. Seriously, when will the Angela horniness end? Also, I'd like to see her deal with some repercussions from the Andy/Dwight triangle. If she has no remorse for her behavior, then I can't care about her. What about Jim and Pam? More of them...please.
The Office airs tonight on the Peacock at 9:00pm et/8:00 ct.

30 Rock airs on NBC at 9:30pm et/8:30pm ct.
NBC's Line Up Reminds me of....MTV's Human Giant

Giant has completed two seasons on the music network with a third postponed due to other commitments by cast, who all have some connection with the shows listed yonder above. One of them being Aziz Ansari who is pretty booked right now playing Tommy Haverford on Parks and Recreation. He also played the fruit stand guy who hated Australians on Flight of the Conchords, and please...he was so cute and horrible, I fell.
Continuing the NBC lineup coincidence - Paul Scheer has played the evil NBC Page Donny Lawson, Kenneth's arch nemesis in a blazer on 30 Rock. He plays obnoxious so well, you can't help but love him. He also portrayed a bastard movie spoiler nerd in last summer's online series on Crackle.com called The Line directed by Seth Meyers featuring Bill Hader, Joe Lo Truglio and Jason Sudeikis .
And last but not least in the NBC Thursday threesome above, Giant's Rob Huebel has appeared as Holly Flax's boyfriend in The Office ("Lecture Circuit Part 2"), and will be in the season finale ("Company Picnic") to reprise the role. I've been crushing on this guy all week. His Tweets on Twitter are so much sick fun it's like he's putting Twitterites under a spell. No matter how much you fight it you lose and Huebel wins.
He's also appeared in I Love You Man, a movie that is so much on my "must absolutely see or be a loser" list that, well, it's a must see. He's also been in TheWB.com web series Children's Hospital. This guy is so ubiquitous that you might find him sitting in the car next to you in traffic.

Tuesday, March 31, 2009
The Mighty Boosh on Adult Swim

The Boosh (as it's also known) stars comedians Julian Barrett and Noel Fielding who created the show back in the late 90's. Over the years, it snowballed into a radio show and finally a television series on BBC3. The series features their creations Vince Moon and Howard Noir, two friends with very different styles and temperaments. Vince is Fielding's character, a beatific, ever loving, open hearted rocker with a shag like a 70's Rod Stewart, while Barrett's Howard is kind of a neurotic, geeky, jazz loving, paranoid every man. They work at the "Nabootique", a Bizarre/Antique shop owned by Naboo, a certified Shaman, and his gorilla friend Bollo. Barrett and Fielding also portray other creatures and characters, planets and plants, such as "Old Greg" (my personal fave), "The Moon", their celestial friend who waxes lyrical about life, and Tony Harrison, a bladder-like head who "sits on the board of Shamen" - a committee where The Boosh's friends can be found.
To find out more and to find scheduled times, check out Adult Swim's site: http://www.adultswim.com/shows/themightyboosh/#
Or head over to The Boosh's Official site to find out more: http://www.themightyboosh.com/