The Mighty Boosh is a British surreal comedy television series created by Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding.

Starring the comedy troupe The Mighty Boosh, it often featured elaborate musical numbers in different genres, such as electro, heavy metal, funk and rap.

Barratt has said that he approached Fielding with the idea of doing a series like The Goodies (1970–1982), as if it were a complete "world" rather than simply a sketch show.

Series 1 opens and often closes with Howard and Vince addressing the audience in front of a theatre curtain, introducing the show and offering some final reflections.

The crimps were sung in a scat style and were lyrically characterized by non-sequiturs that were rhythmically similar to beatboxing,[3] often accompanied by a small performance of hand gestures and pantomimes.

Controversy arose in March 2008 when a new advertisement campaign for the cereal Sugar Puffs was shown to have imitated the particular style of crimping.

In June 2020, Netflix removed The Mighty Boosh from its catalogue, citing the alleged use of blackface in skits such as "The Spirit of Jazz" (where Fielding portrays the ghost of "Howlin' Jimmy Jefferson"), as well as the fifth episode of the first season, "Jungle."

Comedian Jack Carroll tweeted that the removal was "an arbitrary gesture that means [Netflix] doesn’t have to put any real work into combatting actual instances of racial discrimination.

As a result of a growing fan base in the U.S. the BBC released seasons 1–3 individually on North American NTSC-formatted DVDs on 21 July 2009.