Sweder Wrote:Sorry EG, the Might Boosh is one of those modern anarchic comedy creations I'm simply not down with. I missed their radio show/ first TV appearances and feel perhaps some vital translatative component has passed me by Perhaps I should move to Eastbourne :o
Reeves and Mortimer were my kind of anarchists; them and the Young Ones . . .
Steady on, Sweder. I fear you have (understandably) leapt to a faulty assumption. Or leapt from a faulty assumption into a.... oh
The Boosh tix were a 2007 Christmas present (yes, they had to be bought a year in advance) for my wife. She is a bug-eyed Boosh zealot.
Like you, I am on the other side of the line. I've watched them on TV, without smiling. Then I saw that long TV documentary on them that made me understand where they're coming from, even if I wasn't converted into an unquestioning fan.
We were the oldest people there. There was widespread Beatle-type adulation going on all around us. It was remarkable, impressive, and slightly alarming.
Actually, they are good at what they do, even if we are now a bit beyond each other. They're profoundly inventive, energetic, and rude. Utterly understandable why they've made such cults of themselves.
And M? She's 3 months younger than me, so perhaps can be excused for falling under the Boosh spell.