Are Fielding and Barrat Scottish or English? I find the musical numbers in The Boosh both wonderfully silly and strangely hypnotic . . . especially the “Australian digeridoo” and the “80s band” numbers where Vince was the front man and Howard played keyboards.
Thanks for the Robert Webb answer. He plays disaffected late 20s-something guy better than anyone.
Well they’ve both got really English accents so I’m pretty sure they’re from South of the border, but there’s a small chance I’m wrong!They did get their their first big success and critical acclaim, however, from the Edinburgh comedy festival, winning the 1998 Perrier Best Newcomers award.
The songs make the show, if anyone has an mp3 of calm a llama down, they’ll be my new best friend.
Have you seen the episode with the Charlie story (I think the ep. might be called Charlie). The story is wonderfully absurd ‘To celebrate, he set fire to a posh hammer…’
I think we (me and everyone loves monkeys) should be going to see the finale of their current live show in Edinburgh sometime in March. Should be awesome!
I think they are probably English, my brain had just retained the Edinburgh piece.
I have seen the Charlie story, I think it’s part of the Gary Newman flying them to the Arctic to steal the stone that Bainbridge failed to get?
Another non-Brit checking in -
I miss Graham Norton - yeah, I know it was not a sitcom, but he is very funny and then he came to Comedy Channel in the US and the show, well - it just was missing something, though still better than most of the stuff on Comedy Channel, but it was cancelled.
Don’t understand the hate for Keeping Up Appearances - I have watched every episode, multiple times and find it very funny. And I have met others who, when I mention the show, admit they too have watched every episode. I think Americans find it funny as Hyacinth is exactly the American perceived stereotype of a Grand Dame in British Society…and to see her holding her stiff upper lip as situations crumble around her just plays brilliantly against that stereotype. Surprised they haven’t tried to do an American version with a Boston matriarch.
I am an AbFAb fan!
I just caught ten minutes of it by accident.
Awful. Terrible. Desperately trying for League of Gentlemen-style surrealism, but missing the wonderful character performances, the sharp scriptwriting and the attention to detail.
I always enjoyed watching The Kumars at No. 42. How did that go over in the UK?
Well-received, in a fairly inoffensive watch-it-with-the-family way. Meera Syal is a class act.