Noel Fielding

Noel Fielding interview

On the eve of a solo tour, Noel Fielding - formerly one half of The Mighty Boosh - talks about this all-new banquet of weirdness, and explains the benefits of his Bohemian childhood and how he survived turning 40.

Noel Fielding on his audience

'People who think they have to be on drugs to enjoy my shows are depressing'

Noel Fielding on his latest comedy show and tour

You don't need drugs when you have the psychedelic imagination of Noel Fielding, finds Janet Christie.

Noel Fielding's 10 golden rules of musical comedy

When we spoke with Noel he was preparing to take his An Evening With live show on the road. It's a show that features tunes both old and new, so we asked him to share the golden rules of merging music with comedy and not ending up with a cringeworthy disaster.

Noel Fielding on how 'Scousers get comedy'

"They seem to get good comedy in Liverpool. They understand, they know it," he offers. "And the crowd there is always pretty funny."

In the last in the second series of Noel Fielding's postmodern sitcom Luxury Comedy, he's tasked with boosting the show's ratings before the end of the episode. If he fails, the programme will be axed and all the characters therein will be promptly incinerated. There, told you it was postmodern. Terry and June was never this self-aware. Once he's off screen again, Fielding disciples will be bereft. Those who find his wilfully surreal mugging eye-rollingly tedious will get over it pretty quickly.

Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy, TV review

Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy 2: Tales from Painted Hawaii is fun for all the family with a multicoloured set that Nickelodeon would deem too garish. Visually, it's a meticulously fashioned delight - as you'd expect from the man with that haircut. Credit for this should also go to Fielding's long-time collaborator, Nigel Coan. As a sketch-show animator, he's proving himself a worthy successor to the Python's Terry Gilliam.

Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy: 'best watched driunk'

I like Noel Fielding's comedy so much that sometimes I am embarrassed by its periodic bathos - attempts at jokes that trip and fall flat. But the hit rate is pretty high. What is there to like? Principally the puppet-like masked disguises which produce a surreal other-worldliness against which the jokes are set. I also like the voices and daft songs.

Noel Fielding interview

In the new series I've been concentrating a bit more on letting other people play the characters - I mainly just play the coffee shop worker, who's basically a fictionalised version of me.

TV preview: Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy

The second series, subtitled Tales From Painted Hawaii, seems more accessible.