The Boosh

20 years later, The Mighty Boosh is still a comedy revolution

It's been 20 years since The Mighty Boosh first aired on the BBC in the UK. Starring Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt, the surreal comedy pair grew quickly from having a cult following into a popular award-winning series. While the show never achieved that same level of mainstream success in the US, it certainly left a legacy that reaches far beyond its initial cult status.

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Try to catch the last in the series of The Boosh. Fans of Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt's absurdist comedy will be aware that The Mighty Boosh (absurdly enough) started life in 2001 as a radio series on GLR, sandwiched in the middle of the football coverage. If you enjoyed the first TV series - set in a zoo - and you subscribe to the view that pictures are better on the radio, you'll like this episode. Howard and Vince have their first encounter with the cockney hitcher as they take Tony the Prawn (a psychological killer) to the animal offenders' zoo run by Bob Fossil's twin brother Wilbur. Some of the themes and songs will be familiar, some will be new. But the tunes are all earworms that will burrow their way in for a good 24 hours. "I'm Bob Fossil / And my anger is colossal ... "