‘The Mighty Boosh’ Starts Tonight On Adult Swim

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British Comedy The Mighty Boosh Debuts on Adult Swim

Innovative Televisions Series from Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding Begins March 29, 2009

The Mighty Boosh  will make its way to the U.S. on Sunday, March 29, at 1 a.m. (ET/PT), joining Adult Swim’s Sunday line-up. An idea originally created by Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding in a London pub as a sketch comedy has evolved from live theatre to radio and, finally, to a groundbreaking television series. All three seasons of  The Mighty Boosh  are slated to air on Adult Swim in 2009, beginning with the third season on March 29.  

U.S. television audiences will soon get the chance to experience the fantastical comedic universe written by, and starring, comedians Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding. Barratt and Fielding’s characters were first created for their comedy sketch series Unnatural Acts, which soon made its way to three stage productions  The Mighty Boosh, Arctic Boosh  and  Authoboosh.The live act was then commissioned by the BBC for a six-part radio series that eventually became the successful and award-winning U.K. television series on BBC3. In 2006, Barratt and Fielding launched their first nationwide tour  The Mighty Boosh  Live across the U.K. Their second tour Boosh Live sold out venues at 90 stops across the U.K. and Ireland and wrapped up earlier this year.  

In  The Mighty Boosh,  self-absorbed wannabe glam rocker Vince Noir (Fielding) and the intellectually vain and self-proclaimed genius and jazz aficionado Howard Moon (Barratt) are in a band looking to discover “the new sound† and live alongside a freelance shaman, Naboo (Michael Fielding) and Bollo (David Brown), a talking Gorilla. Each season,  The Mighty Booshcreates its own unique environment, taking place in a vast array of locales, including the “Zooniverse†, the Frozen Tundra and the Australian desert. All three seasons of  The Mighty Boosh  are set to be released on DVD this summer.