What little I've seen of V&B, I didn't care for much. Just seemed ... Yeah. Anyone suggest a good place to start?
 

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what *has* happened to this thread? *wells up*
 

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What happened to this thread was it got a bite from the reality cobra of the gorgonzola nightmares.

SeeFacts, I thought i was reading Boosh too. couldn't see any diffrence in what you had writen. It is unfair to compare Father Ted and Vic and Bob as they were true surreal but boosh is in it's own category. subreal.

I wanted fans to explain what made this show great but just had the normal its funny replies and I must be mad to ask such a silly question in the first place. I want to see what elements make it poplar but it seems no one can get beyond the coolness of barret and fielding.

Linking random words is psychiatry not comedy. Cock Slugs. Buggerflies.

If a boosh script had appeared here in the critic forum, before the show was known it would have had a kicking. The script that repeated the same "But did it REALLY" joke for eternity was poor in relying on one joke and putting the climax response to it in the first scene not the last scene where a real writer would have put it. Most people who hate catchphrase shows will be repeating that to their mates weeks from now. But will they REALLY? sadly yes.

one good thing about the show was I like the guy who looks like a young Hitler hippy. And I like that bollo the ape can never put a kiss after his name on xmas cards. bet fielding and the other one never thought of that. Or did they ... REALLY?
 

I might be one of the few people here who isn't at one end or the other of the Boosh opinion scale. I concede that none of them are great actors, Vince's long 'whimsical' imagery is rarely funny beyond the fact that it's LOL RANDOM XD (and a lot of its popularity with media students comes from that), but I think it's unfair to say that their stuff is pointless and written without much thought. Some of the jokes in the first series especially (the Spirit of Jazz's hat gag and Howard's sentence payoff come to mind) were very funny and hard to justify calling it formulaic or arbitrarily contrived.
 

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From you and Seefacts and a few others, yes. Because you don't like them.
We've established that.

 

Let's tone down the vitriol of the Boosh bashing, if only for the sake of your psyches. Whenever one is quite so passionately provoked by a minor comedy it's best to think, "Sharia Law? Bigotry? Widescale Starvation? GAAAAAH!"

(God, I'm a hypocrite. If they appear on the television tonight then I'll be throwing bottles. Hopefully, however, I'll have the sense to turn over to the news and find something to really inspire my ire.)
 

I think the Boosh Bashers should appreciate that it's just not their cup of tea but shouldn't start saying that it is undoubtedly crap and they could do better. Because they can't and have proven it by not doing anything. It's not like that Adam & Shelley crap where everyone agreed it was rubbish.

Plenty of people love it and its in series 3 so I think you should put it down to not being your taste and stop trying to work out why your taste isn't the same as others. Which is actually the answer to all this.
 

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I echo all of that
 

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Quote: ContainsNuts @ December 4, 2007, 7:01 PM

I think the Boosh Bashers should appreciate that it's just not their cup of tea but shouldn't start saying that it is undoubtedly crap and they could do better. Because they can't and have proven it by not doing anything. It's not like that Adam & Shelley crap where everyone agreed it was rubbish.

Plenty of people love it and its in series 3 so I think you should put it down to not being your taste and stop trying to work out why your taste isn't the same as others. Which is actually the answer to all this.

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I'm looking at it from a writer's point of view. I've been in contact with enough zany media students to know that gushing out a load of phrases like 'monkey nugget' and other such boring guff, is dead easy and not at all funny. TMB is just an extension of that, in my opinion. And it angers me because it's lazy and there's no craft. The fact I posted that little parody which a few on here, and on another forum, didn't know if I was quoting the show or not, proves that it's the dullest kind of 'animal whimsy'. (Fielding on the C4 quiz last year proved it too - banging on about badgers and rainbows alongside the even worse Russell Brand)

There was a interview with David Renwick on BBC4 last night which I caught the end of, and the fact he's so eloquent and intelligent and we know he's one of the best craftsmen working in television comedy, it annoys me to think that stuff like The Boosh is getting far more recognition with younger people.

Too much young comedy and student stand ups are going down this route of easy whimsical rubbish, thinking that Random object + random place = funny. It doesn't, in my opinion.

I don't rate them as performers either. Fielding is utterly appalling (his only saving grace was in The IT Crowd - thanks Mr Linehan!)and Barratt less so - I'm sure I've seen him in a few things where he's been okay.

As for the 'Can you do better' argument that invariable comes up every time something is criticised - yes, yes I could.
 

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Okay, I will.
 

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That's an unfair critique, as we all - in our mutual despising of TittyTittyBangBang - imagine that we can do better than most catchphrase comedies. You can't admit that comedy is subjective but then claim that they're somehow elevated over Seefacts.

(Then again, I suppose you just did.)
 

Quote: Seefacts @ December 4, 2007, 7:14 PM

I'm looking at it from a writer's point of view. I've been in contact with enough zany media students to know that gushing out a load of phrases like 'monkey nugget' and other such boring guff, is dead easy and not at all funny. TMB is just an extension of that, in my opinion. And it angers me because it's lazy and there's no craft. The fact I posted that little parody which a few on here, and on another forum, didn't know if I was quoting the show or not, proves that it's the dullest kind of 'animal whimsy'. (Fielding on the C4 quiz last year proved it too - banging on about badgers and rainbows alongside the even worse Russell Brand)

There was a interview with David Renwick on BBC4 last night which I caught the end of, and the fact he's so eloquent and intelligent and we know he's one of the best craftsmen working in television comedy, it annoys me to think that stuff like The Boosh is getting far more recognition with younger people.

Too much young comedy and student stand ups are going down this route of easy whimsical rubbish, thinking that Random object + random place = funny. It doesn't, in my opinion.

I don't rate them as performers either. Fielding is utterly appalling (his only saving grace was in The IT Crowd - thanks Mr Linehan!)and Barratt less so - I'm sure I've seen him in a few things where he's been okay.

As for the 'Can you do better' argument that invariable comes up every time something is criticised - yes, yes I could.

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Look, we get you dont like it, so calm down! I happen to think Not Going Out is pedestrian poo, but its got a lot of admirers, I just accept its not my cup of tea and dont go on and on about it!!

And the whole 'its lazy, badly written, no craft, I could do better' is your own opinion; others disagree, evidently, so why not just accept it and realise that different people have different ideas about whats funny? And why the media students obsession? Leave the poor sods alone!

I like the Boosh, I think its funny, well written and wonderfully performed, you think the opposite, fair enough, why the bile? Im sure theres plenty of other shows you do like out there, just forget about this one, theres always going to be shows on you dont like, thats just a fact of life Im afraid, dont let it drive you bonkers.
 

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Quote: Matthew Stott @ December 4, 2007, 7:28 PM

Look, we get you dont like it, so calm down! I happen to think Not Going Out is pedestrian poo, but its got a lot of admirers, I just accept its not my cup of tea and dont go on and on about it!!

And the whole 'its lazy, badly written, no craft, I could do better' is your own opinion; others disagree, evidently, so why not just accept it and realise that different people have different ideas about whats funny? And why the media students obsession? Leave the poor sods alone!

I like the Boosh, I think its funny, well written and wonderfully performed, you think the opposite, fair enough, why the bile? Im sure theres plenty of other shows you do like out there, just forget about this one, theres always going to be shows on you dont like, thats just a fact of life Im afraid, dont let it drive you bonkers.

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This is a discussion forum, the bile 9as you put it) is backed up with my opinions. I don't want to over-step into just shouting about it.

'Pedestrian poo' - do dogs step in that and get really annoyed, and have to wipe their feet on the curb?

re: media students - they really are arseholes (mostly)
 

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[quote name="Seefacts" post="71018" date="December 4, 2007, 7:32 PM"]This is a discussion forum, the bile 9as you put it) is backed up with my opinions.

I realise that, but an 'i hate it, well I like it, well I hate it, well i dont' sort of thing is pointless and hardly a proper discussion, everyones just restating the same case again and again, I think we all realise you think its shit by now, and you can hardly be surprised that, on a thread about the Boosh, if someone rips the show to shreds, those who like it will want to counter the statement. Lets just agree to disagree.

 

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