Noel Fielding
- 51 years old
- Actor, writer, comedian and artist
Press clippings Page 21
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.
Ben Arnold, The Guardian, 28th August 2014Noel 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.
Ellen E. Jones, The Independent, 1st August 2014Noel 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.
Christopher Howse, The Telegraph, 31st July 2014Noel 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.
Francesca Steele, Metro, 29th July 2014Noel Fielding: 'Oh God, I've got a Peter Pan complex'
Post-Mighty Boosh, the Luxury Comedy star went slightly off the rails. Ahead of series two, how better to settle his anxieties than lots of seriously strong coffee.
Rhik Samadder, The Guardian, 26th July 2014TV preview: Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy
The second series, subtitled Tales From Painted Hawaii, seems more accessible.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 26th July 2014Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy 2 preview
There is a fresh new energy within the cast, but still has the same feelings of warmth and familiarity of previous episodes.
Becca Moody, Moody Comedy, 25th July 2014Noel Fielding reins in the mental for Series 2
A chocolate finger named Roy, a manta ray called Tony and a cafe on a volcano... Jeananne Craig enters the weird and wonderful world of Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy and finds out why The Mighty Boosh star is in "a happier place".
Jeananne Craig, The Independent (Ireland), 24th July 2014An early look at Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy 2
Last week we were lucky enough to get a sneaky peek at the new series of Luxury Comedy. So without giving away any spoilers, what can we expect when it finally hits our screens on 31st July?
The Velvet Onion, 24th July 2014'Luxury Comedy': A land of the outright bizarre
As his surreal comedy series returns to E4, Noel Fielding tells James Rampton why mainstream success scares him and what the future holds for The Boosh.
James Rampton, The Independent, 23rd July 2014