The Mighty Boosh (1998 stage show)

The Mighty Boosh was a 1998 stage show written and performed by Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt, along with Rich Fulcher.

Fielding and Barratt first conceived of The Mighty Boosh whilst working on Stewart Lee's Edinburgh show, King Dong vs. Moby Dick, in which they played a giant penis and a whale respectively.

[4] Dave Brown who also collaborated on the Mighty Boosh with them commented further on their time at the Hen and Chickens which is a theatre bar in Islington, London, "They would use the Hen and Chickens as this kind of... place to, a platform to just try stuff out and it was just a great little place they could do a regular spot... where they would probably write and have ideas in the week, try stuff out for half of that and then for the rest of it, it would just be improv and mucking about.

And then we used to put potted plants all around the gig and music on... to try and make it into a sort of play... People couldn't believe the audacity.

"[4] Fielding has commented further on the 1998 Mighty Boosh live show “Julian had a song about a mammoth that he wanted to sing to a girl in the audience, and I had a few ideas for some weird sketches... We started working on our ideas together... We were zookeepers and we got sucked through our bosses’ eyes and into a magic forest..."[5] After recruiting fellow comedian Rich Fulcher (whom the pair had met working on a television series called Unnatural Acts), the trio decided to take the show to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where they won the Perrier Best Newcomer Award.