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'''Noel Fielding''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|n|ə|ʊ|ə|l}}; born 1973) is an English comedian and actor. He was part of ] comedy troupe alongside ] in the 2000s, and has been a co-presenter of '']'' since 2017. He is known for his ] and ] comedic style. | '''Noel Fielding''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|n|ə|ʊ|ə|l}}; born May 21, 1973) is an English comedian and actor. He was part of ] comedy troupe alongside ] in the 2000s, and has been a co-presenter of '']'' since 2017. He is known for his ] and ] comedic style. | ||
Fielding began performing stand |
Fielding began performing stand-up comedy when he graduated from ] in 1995, and in 1997 he first met Mighty Boosh collaborator Barratt when they both appeared on the same comedy bill at a pub in ]. Around 1998, they performed their first comedy show together in ], which was a mix of stand-up and sketch comedy, then later in 1998 they took the show, '']'', to the ]. They returned to the festival in 1999 with '']'', and in 2000 with '']''. In 2001 The Mighty Boosh became a six-part radio show on ], called '']'' later transferring to BBC radio 4. | ||
In 2004, the Mighty Boosh became a television show '']'', which ran for three series on ] until 2007. |
In 2004, the Mighty Boosh became a television show '']'', which ran for three series on ] until 2007. The show generated a ] and won awards. From February to April 2006 they went on tour around the UK with the stage show '']'' and then toured the UK for a second time from September 2008 to January 2009 with ]. | ||
During the 2000s, Fielding also had smaller roles in |
During the 2000s, Fielding also had smaller roles in other comedy shows for ] including '']'', '']'', '']'', and '']''. After ''The Mighty Boosh'', he wrote and starred in two series of a solo show for Channel 4 called '']'', which ran between 2012 and 2014. He has also appeared as a team captain on the ] comedy panel show '']'', originally from 2009 to 2015, and again since 2021, and as a guest on ]'s '']'' series. He has also appeared in several ]s. | ||
Fielding, along with ] from the band ], formed the band ] as an alternative project in 2012, to provide music for ''Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy''. Fielding has also exhibited his artwork in London, and collaborated with ] for their autumn/winter 2021 menswear collection. | |||
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Fielding, along with ] from the band ], formed the band ] as an alternative project in 2012, to provide music for the TV Show''Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/kasabian-64-1238028|title=Kasabian's Serge Pizzorno teams up with Noel Fielding for second series of 'Luxury Comedy' |website=nme.com|date=10 July 2014|accessdate=8 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-41081686 |title=Kasabian's Serge persuaded Noel Fielding to take the Great British Bake Off job |last1=Garvan |first1=Sinead|last2=Rahman-Jones |first2=Imran|date=29 August 2017|work=BBC News|access-date=10 September 2024|quote=The pair collaborated on Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy on Channel 4, as the band The Loose Tapestries.}}</ref><ref name="2014 Boosh Guardian 2nd">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/may/18/food-tales-noel-fielding-mighty-boosh|title=Noel Fielding: What I craved after those Mighty Boosh shows was milk|last=Hind|first=John|date=18 May 2014 |work=The Guardian|access-date=10 September 2024}}</ref> | |||
==Early life and education == | ==Early life and education == | ||
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Fielding was born in the ] area of ] in 1973,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/people/noel_fielding_person_page.shtml |work=BBC Comedy |access-date=18 May 2009 |title=Noel Fielding}}</ref> the son of ] manager Ray Fielding and Yvonne Fagan. He is of French descent through his grandmother.<ref>Russell Brand Show – BBC Radio 2 (13 October 2007)</ref><ref name="the Guardian-2011"/> He grew up in ], ]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/13879286.noel-fielding-talks-about-his-love-for-south-london-and-the-pressures-of-writing-a-new-stand-up-tour/|title=Noel Fielding talks about his love for south London and the pressures of writing a new stand-up tour|date=20 October 2015|last=Palmer |first=Jim|work=News Shopper}}</ref> When Fielding was three years old, his father remarried, and Fielding was mostly raised by his grandmother.<ref name="the Guardian-2011" /> | Fielding was born in the ] area of ] in 1973,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/people/noel_fielding_person_page.shtml |work=BBC Comedy |access-date=18 May 2009 |title=Noel Fielding}}</ref> the son of ] manager Ray Fielding and Yvonne Fagan. He is of French descent through his grandmother.<ref>Russell Brand Show – BBC Radio 2 (13 October 2007)</ref><ref name="the Guardian-2011"/> He grew up in ], ]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/13879286.noel-fielding-talks-about-his-love-for-south-london-and-the-pressures-of-writing-a-new-stand-up-tour/|title=Noel Fielding talks about his love for south London and the pressures of writing a new stand-up tour|date=20 October 2015|last=Palmer |first=Jim|work=News Shopper}}</ref> When Fielding was three years old, his father remarried, and Fielding was mostly raised by his grandmother.<ref name="the Guardian-2011" /> | ||
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His father and stepmother Diane would later become more involved in parenting during Fielding's mother's illness in the 1980s. His mother had two more children before dying in 1990 aged 37 years old, from complications caused by liver damage.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/great-british-bake-offs-noel-10098512 |title=Great British Bake Off's Noel Fielding family heartache |first=Halina |last=Watts |date=25 March 2017 |website=Daily Mirror}}</ref> Fielding has commented that "My parents had lots of parties... They were hopelessly bohemian."<ref name="Rumbelow-2009">{{cite news |last=Rumbelow |first=Helen |date=28 November 2009 |title=The Mighty Boosh's Noel Fielding says that 'Kids are frightened of me' |work=] |location=London |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-mighty-booshs-noel-fielding-says-that-kids-are-frightened-of-me-6lh8vz8nbt5 |access-date=19 October 2010}}</ref> | His father and stepmother Diane would later become more involved in parenting during Fielding's mother's illness in the 1980s. His mother had two more children before dying in 1990 aged 37 years old, from complications caused by liver damage.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/great-british-bake-offs-noel-10098512 |title=Great British Bake Off's Noel Fielding family heartache |first=Halina |last=Watts |date=25 March 2017 |website=Daily Mirror}}</ref> Fielding has commented that "My parents had lots of parties... They were hopelessly bohemian."<ref name="Rumbelow-2009">{{cite news |last=Rumbelow |first=Helen |date=28 November 2009 |title=The Mighty Boosh's Noel Fielding says that 'Kids are frightened of me' |work=] |location=London |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-mighty-booshs-noel-fielding-says-that-kids-are-frightened-of-me-6lh8vz8nbt5 |access-date=19 October 2010}}</ref> | ||
], his younger paternal half-brother, later played various characters in '']'' TV show and live stage shows as well as ''Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy''. His father Ray Fielding and his stepmother appeared in ''The Mighty Boosh'' TV show, with his father having several cameos as ].<ref name="Jonathan Ross November 2007">{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gSWTSVILwo |title=Friday Night with Jonathan Ross |date=30 November 2007 |website=Youtube |access-date=5 September 2024 |quote=Barratt: "My dad and mum are both in it... ...Cos my dad was in the last series and she said why dont you put me in it? So um, i said OK and i put her in it but I dressed her up as a sort of yellow aubergine..."}}</ref> |
], his younger paternal half-brother, later played various characters in '']'' TV show and live stage shows as well as ''Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy''. His father Ray Fielding and his stepmother appeared in ''The Mighty Boosh'' TV show, with his father having several cameos as ].<ref name="Jonathan Ross November 2007">{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gSWTSVILwo |title=Friday Night with Jonathan Ross |date=30 November 2007 |website=Youtube |access-date=5 September 2024 |quote=Barratt: "My dad and mum are both in it... ...Cos my dad was in the last series and she said why dont you put me in it? So um, i said OK and i put her in it but I dressed her up as a sort of yellow aubergine..."}}</ref> | ||
At the age of 13<ref name="September 2012"/><ref name="September 2024">{{cite web |url=https://shows.acast.com/talkart/episodes/noelfielding-acast6fea0928|title=Noel Fielding |website=acast|date=25 September 2020|publisher=Talk Art|access-date=26 October 2024}}</ref> Fielding began writing comedy sketches.<ref name="September 2012">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2012/sep/18/noel-fielding-comedian-mighty-boosh|title=Noel Fielding, comedian – portrait of the artist|first=Laura |last=Barnett|date=18 September 2012|work=The Guardian|access-date=26 October 2024}}</ref> At the age of 15, Fielding became a ] and had goth girlfriends. At this time he first tried using makeup and said he loved being dressed up by his girlfriends.<ref name ="Guardian 2013 2nd">{{cite news |last=Hattenstone |first=Simon |date=1 February 2013 |title=Noel Fielding: rocking a new look |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/feb/01/noel-fielding-interview |work=The Guardian |access-date=2 September 2023}}</ref> | At the age of 13<ref name="September 2012"/><ref name="September 2024">{{cite web |url=https://shows.acast.com/talkart/episodes/noelfielding-acast6fea0928|title=Noel Fielding |website=acast|date=25 September 2020|publisher=Talk Art|access-date=26 October 2024}}</ref> Fielding began writing comedy sketches.<ref name="September 2012">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2012/sep/18/noel-fielding-comedian-mighty-boosh|title=Noel Fielding, comedian – portrait of the artist|first=Laura |last=Barnett|date=18 September 2012|work=The Guardian|access-date=26 October 2024}}</ref> At the age of 15, Fielding became a ] and had goth girlfriends. At this time he first tried using makeup and said he loved being dressed up by his girlfriends.<ref name ="Guardian 2013 2nd">{{cite news |last=Hattenstone |first=Simon |date=1 February 2013 |title=Noel Fielding: rocking a new look |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2013/feb/01/noel-fielding-interview |work=The Guardian |access-date=2 September 2023}}</ref> | ||
Whilst studying at ]<ref name="the Guardian-2011" /><ref name="Jones-2007"/> Fielding met Mighty Boosh collaborator ].<ref name="the Guardian-2011" /> From 1992 to 1995 Fielding studied for a ] in graphic design and advertising at ] in ],<ref name="Mighty Boosh back at university">{{cite web |url=http://bucks.ac.uk/content/newsroom/2011/noelfielding |publisher=Bucks New University |access-date=10 September 2010 |title=Mighty Boosh stars back at university to receive honorary master's degrees |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150911055600/http://bucks.ac.uk/content/newsroom/2011/noelfielding |archive-date=11 September 2015 }}</ref><ref name="Bucks October 2014">{{cite web |title=Well-known TV stars to be among honorary graduates at Buckinghamshire New University |url=http://bucks.ac.uk/content/newsroom/2011/tvgraduates |access-date=5 October 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006113026/http://bucks.ac.uk/content/newsroom/2011/tvgraduates#.VDHTHSldVnI |archive-date=6 October 2014}}</ref><ref name="Jones-2007"/> graduating in 1995.<ref name="Mighty Boosh back at university"/> |
Whilst studying at ]<ref name="the Guardian-2011" /><ref name="Jones-2007"/> Fielding met Mighty Boosh collaborator ].<ref name="the Guardian-2011" /> From 1992 to 1995 Fielding studied for a ] in graphic design and advertising at ] in ],<ref name="Mighty Boosh back at university">{{cite web |url=http://bucks.ac.uk/content/newsroom/2011/noelfielding |publisher=Bucks New University |access-date=10 September 2010 |title=Mighty Boosh stars back at university to receive honorary master's degrees |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150911055600/http://bucks.ac.uk/content/newsroom/2011/noelfielding |archive-date=11 September 2015 }}</ref><ref name="Bucks October 2014">{{cite web |title=Well-known TV stars to be among honorary graduates at Buckinghamshire New University |url=http://bucks.ac.uk/content/newsroom/2011/tvgraduates |access-date=5 October 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006113026/http://bucks.ac.uk/content/newsroom/2011/tvgraduates#.VDHTHSldVnI |archive-date=6 October 2014}}</ref><ref name="Jones-2007"/> graduating in 1995.<ref name="Mighty Boosh back at university"/> | ||
Whilst at Buckinghamshire College both Dave Brown and ] were studying the same course as Fielding<ref name="velvet onion January 2012">{{cite web |title=The Man Who Brings Noel's Dreams to Life |url=http://thevelvetonion.com/2012/01/23/the-man-who-brings-noels-dreams-to-life/ |date=23 January 2012 |
Whilst at Buckinghamshire College both Dave Brown and ] were studying the same course as Fielding<ref name="velvet onion January 2012">{{cite web |title=The Man Who Brings Noel's Dreams to Life |work=The Velvet Onion |url=http://thevelvetonion.com/2012/01/23/the-man-who-brings-noels-dreams-to-life/ |date=23 January 2012 |access-date=10 September 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230827060149/https://thevelvetonion.com/2012/01/23/the-man-who-brings-noels-dreams-to-life/|archive-date=27 August 2023}}</ref> and all three shared a student house together.<ref name="velvet onion January 2012"/> Nigel Coan also collaborated with Fielding on the Mighty Boosh.<ref name="velvet onion January 2012"/> After they had lived together in student housing whilst at Buckinghamshire College, Fielding, Brown, and Coan also later lived together in a flat in ].<ref name="Youtube-2013 - Part 1"/> | ||
==Career== | ==Career== | ||
===Stand-up comedy=== | ===Stand-up comedy=== | ||
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Fielding began performing comedy while at university<ref name="September 2012"/> and he began performing stand up when he graduated in 1995.<ref name="Youtube-2013 - Part 1">{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fanCHWsmSq4 |title=Interview Part 1: Noel Fielding on turning 40 |date=21 May 2013|website=Youtube |publisher=VelvetOnionOfficial |access-date=8 August 2024}}</ref> | |||
In 1997 he first met Mighty Boosh collaborator Julian Barratt when they both appeared on the same comedy bill at a pub in north London.<ref name= "Observer 2007">{{cite news| last = Raphael | first = Amy | title = Boys from the Boosh | newspaper = ] | date = 21 October 2007 | url = http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,,2193898,00.html | access-date = 29 March 2008}}</ref> Barratt had had more experience in performing than Fielding.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://leftlion.co.uk/features/2006/12/interview-with-noel-fielding-from-the-mighty-boosh-bake-off-nathan-barley-julian-barrett/|title=Interview: Noel Fielding|date=2006|work=Left Lion|access-date=1 September 2024}}</ref> Later, on '']'', Barratt said that they had liked each other's comedy but didn't know if a collaboration would work, but, according to Fielding, they "had quite a good chemistry straight away."<ref name="September 2019 Jonathan Ross 2nd">{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HJ9u6bHG_I&t=573s |title=The History of The Mighty Boosh |date=24 September 2019 |website= YouTube |publisher=Absolute Jokes |access-date=4 September 2024}}</ref> | |||
Fielding began performing comedy while at university<ref name="September 2012"/> and he began performing stand up when he graduated in 1995.<ref name="Youtube-2013 - Part 1"/> In 2013 he commented "I went to art school and stuff and by the time I came out I started doing stand up. I spose I've probably been doing this now for about 17 years, 18 years... ...I've been doing it for a long time, me and Julian were talking about it, it's weird. That's why it's sort of hilarious when, you know in a funny kind of way, you know, you spend twenty years of your life trying to make people laugh and it's quite a hard thing to do."<ref name="Youtube-2013 - Part 1"/> | |||
In 1997 he first met Mighty Boosh collaborator Julian Barratt when they both appeared on the same comedy bill at a pub in north London.<ref name= "Observer 2007"/> In 2006 Fielding commented that "We were doing stand-up and were on the same bill together. I was on first and usually you can only have about one weird comedian on a line-up. He'd been doing it a bit longer than me... '...Let's write together'. I've been stuck with him ever since and that was about eight years ago or something."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://leftlion.co.uk/features/2006/12/interview-with-noel-fielding-from-the-mighty-boosh-bake-off-nathan-barley-julian-barrett/|title=Interview: Noel Fielding|date=2006|work=Left Lion|access-date=1 September 2024}}</ref> Whilst Barratt and Fielding were on The Jonathan Ross Show, Ross asked them "And did you perform as solo acts ever, did you do like stand up..." with Barratt responding "yeah, yeah, that's how we sort of met really on the circuit, doing stand up, yeah.", with Ross responding "But, but was it similar to the Boosh stuff, 'cos the Boosh stuff it seems to be so much of a partnership I can't imagine it being taken apart and being served up separately.", with Barratt responding that "We were both doing quite surreal stuff, eh...", with Fielding adding "It was quite weird wasn't it, alot weirder than the show in a way...", with Barratt continuing "...but we sort of, when we first met we kind of liked each other's comedy but we didn't know that it would work, we didn't know whether it was gonna cancel each other out and make....", with Fielding responding "Yeah, too weird to make sort of, straight...", with Barratt continuing "...might just become geography or something else or... this sort of thing, but it worked for some reason...", with Fielding adding "We had quite a good chemistry straight away."<ref name="September 2019 Jonathan Ross 2nd">{{cite web | |||
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|quote= Ross: "And did you perform as solo acts ever did you do like stand up..." Barratt: "yeah, yeah, that's how we sort of met really on the circuit, doing stand up, yeah." Ross: "But, but was it similar to the Boosh stuff, 'cos the Boosh stuff it seems to be so much of a partnership I can't imagine it being taken apart and being served up separately." Barratt: "We were both doing quite surreal stuff, eh..." Fielding: "It was quite weird wasn't it, alot weirder than the show in a way..." Barratt: "...but we sort of, when we first met we kind of liked each other's comedy but we didn't know that it would work, we didn't know whether it was gonna cancel each other out and make...." Fielding: "Yeah, too weird to make sort of, straight..." Barratt: "...might just become geography or something else or... this sort of thing, but it worked for some reason..." With Fielding adding "We had quite a good chemistry straight away."}}</ref> | |||
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On the day they met they both went back to Julian's place that night where Barratt played music on his Akai sampler while Fielding used a ping-pong ball to make an eye patch.<ref name= "Observer 2007"/> | On the day they met they both went back to Julian's place that night where Barratt played music on his Akai sampler while Fielding used a ping-pong ball to make an eye patch.<ref name= "Observer 2007"/> | ||
They shared an interest in music, with Fielding more into rock and roll and pop, and Barratt preferring jazz, but both enjoyed electro. Both had played in bands before meeting.<ref name="Youtube 2016">{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MON23mYsLyM |title=The Mighty Boosh's Noel Fielding in studio q |date=30 March 2016|website=Youtube |publisher=Q with Tom Power |access-date=29 August 2024}}</ref> They also shared common interests in comedy, including ] and ].<ref name="Guardian April 2016">{{cite news |last=Freeman |first= Hadley|date=24 April 2016|title= Julian Barratt: 'I have trouble keeping a lid on the self-hatred'|url= https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/apr/24/julian-barratt-trouble-keeping-lid-on-self-hatred-mighty-boosh-flowers|work=The Guardian |access-date=30 August 2024}}</ref><ref name= "Observer 2007"/> | |||
In 2010, Fielding was supposed to perform a solo tour across the country. It was cancelled so he could concentrate on writing ''The Mighty Boosh'' film with Julian Barratt and creating an album. Fielding announced via ] that he was too busy to do the tour.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2009/11/12/9942/noel_fielding_cancels_tour |title=Noel Fielding cancels tour |work=chortle.co.uk |access-date=24 January 2015}}</ref> From 2014 to 2015 Fielding toured the UK and Australia with a new comedy show ''An Evening With Noel Fielding'' that included both stand |
In 2010, Fielding was supposed to perform a solo tour across the country. It was cancelled so he could concentrate on writing ''The Mighty Boosh'' film with Julian Barratt and creating an album. Fielding announced via ] that he was too busy to do the tour.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2009/11/12/9942/noel_fielding_cancels_tour |title=Noel Fielding cancels tour |work=chortle.co.uk |access-date=24 January 2015}}</ref> From 2014 to 2015 Fielding toured the UK and Australia with a new comedy show ''An Evening With Noel Fielding'' that included both stand-up comedy and sketch comedy and along with Fielding included performances from his brother Michael Fielding and long-term collaborator Tom Meeten. Mighty Boosh collaborator Nigel Coan created the animation for the animated sequences that occurred in the show.<ref name="velvet onion January 2012"/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/various-artists-2414-1230161 |title=Noel Fielding announces UK tour dates |last= Renshaw|first=David |date=3 March 2014 |website=NME.com |publisher=NME |access-date=29 August 2024}}</ref> | ||
]'s ] comedy festival had to be moved online, during the ] |
]'s ] comedy festival had to be moved online, during the ] pandemic. On 20 October 2020 Fielding and ] live streamed a conversation from their respective homes.<ref>{{cite web |date=3 October 2020 |title=Just for Laughs – October 9–10, 2020 Online |url=https://themontrealeronline.com/2020/10/just-for-laughs-october-9-10-2020-online/ |access-date=26 April 2024 |website=The Montrealer}}</ref> | ||
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]'' at the Brighton Dome. From left to right; Rich Fulcher, Noel Fielding, Julian Barratt, Dave Brown. February 2006]] | ]'' at the Brighton Dome. From left to right; Rich Fulcher, Noel Fielding, Julian Barratt, Dave Brown. February 2006]] | ||
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Barratt and Fielding said that they performed together for the first time in Stuart Lee's show, ''Moby Dick and King Dong'' (at the ], 1997), in which Barratt played King Dong's penis.<ref name="Mighty Boosh A History">{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sGCf0vZzDY |title=Mighty Boosh A History |date=2005 |website=Youtube |publisher= Baby Cow productions|access-date=2 September 2024}}</ref> | ||
Sometime around 1998<ref name="Mighty Boosh A History"/> they then put on their first comedy show and it was commented that "They did their first gig at Oranje Boom Boom which is sort of in Chinatown in London, and ah, which was ridiculous, I mean it was really, like, ridiculous costumes and um, they didn't know what... they really know what they were doing... ...It was very raw, but it was, it was hilarious... ...They thought lets do a show, an Edinburgh show. I think they started to think about doing that. So they got a gig at Hen and Chickens...".<ref name="Mighty Boosh A History"/> ] commented further on their time at the Hen and Chickens, 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. Then they took the, um, took '']'' up to Edinburgh and then two more shows ], ]...".<ref name="Mighty Boosh A History"/> Both ] and Richard Ayoade appeared in a performance of the Mighty Boosh at the Hen and Chickens in 2002<ref name="Mighty Boosh A History"/> during a live run through of a Mighty Boosh pilot.<ref name="Mighty Boosh A History"/> | |||
Fielding and Barratt have commented on their time at the Hen and Chickens, with Fielding commenting that "...cos it'd be stand up and people would come on and do straight stand up. 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. It got some sort of reputation as being sort of enigmatic but we're just really unprofessional. We didn't know anything about theatre or what you did."<ref name="Mighty Boosh A History"/> with Barratt responding to Fielding "Speak for yourself, I was in a Sartre play at university I'll have you know. ''Huis Clos''."<ref name="Mighty Boosh A History"/> Fielding has commented further on their first 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..."<ref name="Noel Fielding interview - Taras Wray">{{cite web |url=https://beat.com.au/noel-fielding/ |title=Noel Fielding |last1=Wray |first1=Tyson |last2=Taras |first2=Nick |website=beat.com.au|publisher=Beat Magazine|access-date=4 September 2024|quote=}}</ref> | |||
In 2001 The Mighty Boosh became a six-part<ref name="radio show Boosh"/> radio show on BBC London Live, later transferring to BBC radio 4<ref name="radio show Boosh"/> and Barratt has humorously commented that "...so we did a radio show, we did, we sort of recorded it in a sort of old railway sort of arch...", with Fielding adding "in Shoreditch..." with Barratt continuing "....built our studio out of weird... ...little children's toys...".<ref name="Mighty Boosh A History"/> Barratt and Fielding have also commented on the process of moving the show from the stage to TV, with Barratt commenting "...we wanted to get on TV but it'd been a lot of trouble because they thought it was eh, the scripts we sort of gave them were sort of like massive epic adventures that sounded like it would cost them a million pounds to make so they said this isn't, I don't know how this is going to work on stage, well actually what happened is...' with Fielding adding "...'We wrote it for Channel 4 originally'" and Barratt replying "...before we'd done a stage show and they said how is this going to work on TV cos it is ridiculous. So we wrote, we did a stage show and then they said how's that going to work on TV because its really good live, so, perhaps we should've done it inside a television set."<ref name="Mighty Boosh A History"/> | |||
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Sometime around 1998<ref name="Mighty Boosh A History"/> they then put on their first comedy show at Oranje Boom Boom, which "was very raw, but... hilarious", and afterwards got a gig at ], a theatre bar in ], London. They then took '']'' up to Edinburgh in 1998, followed by ] and ].<ref name="Mighty Boosh A History"/> Fielding said about their first live show in 1998 that they had worked on their ideas together, and played "zookeepers got sucked through our bosses' eyes and into a magic forest".<ref name="Noel Fielding interview - Taras Wray">{{cite web |url=https://beat.com.au/noel-fielding/ |title=Noel Fielding |last1=Wray |first1=Tyson |last2=Taras |first2=Nick |website=beat.com.au|date=14 April 2015 |publisher=Beat Magazine|access-date=4 September 2024|quote=}}</ref> Both ] and ] appeared in a performance of the Mighty Boosh at the Hen and Chickens in 2002 during a live run through of a Mighty Boosh pilot.<ref name="Mighty Boosh A History"/> Fielding and Barratt said that they used to put ]s all around the Hen and Chickens "to try and make it into a sort of play", but they "didn't know anything about theatre or what you did".<ref name="Mighty Boosh A History"/> The name "Mighty Boosh" was originally a phrase used by a friend of Michael Fielding's to describe the hair that Michael had as a child.<ref name="naming" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HJ9u6bHG_I&t=97s |title=The History of The Mighty Boosh |date=24 September 2019 |website= Youtube|publisher=Absolute Jokes |access-date=4 September 2024 |quote=Jonathan Ross:"Where did the name the Mighty Boosh originate and does it mean anything?" Fielding: "My brother whos in the green room who plays... ...Naboo he had sort of curly hair when he was little... ...and he had a little friend who... ..used to go "you've got a Mighty Boosh".}}</ref> From August 2008 to January 2009 they went on tour for a second time with a new stage show of the ].<ref name="2014 Boosh Guardian"/> | |||
In 2006 Fielding and Barratt went on tour with a new theatre show '']''.<ref name="radio show Boosh"/> Fielding has commented in relation to touring that "The touring lifestyle is quite hard... ...In the boosh tour we did a 100 day tour and we had one day off a week to travel and we were playing arenas and we partied every single night and we got up for sound check at six o'clock. So we were like Dracula. I was like Dracula. So I'd wake up at six, do a sound check, wake up, do the show, go to a party, stay up till five in the morning, sleep all day, every day for a hundred... ."<ref name="Youtube 2016"/> Fielding has further commented about the Mighty Boosh that "It was crazy cos we were just going.... ...it was never mean't to be, we were never mean't to be playing the O2 and Wembley and being on the cover of Time Out and... ...being on Jonathan Ross I don't think we ever thought that would happen... ...We always sort of just made it in our bedroom and then brought it out and stuff happened. We were as surprised as anyone when we won the Perrier and we were surprised when it got put on telly. We were like 'Wow this is great' we weren't ever sort of planning it. Like... ..we didn't even know if we could make a living from it."<ref name="Youtube 2013 - part 5">{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8f1n_vugFg |title=Interview 5: Noel Fielding on The Mighty Boosh |date=26 June 2013 |website=Youtube |publisher=VelvetOnionOfficial |access-date=8 August 2024}}</ref> Fielding has commented further that “We always thought we'd make one show and that'd be the end of it. But after we won the Perrier, everyone was telling us that we had to do another, which we did and brought it to Melbourne and won the Barry, and then we made a radio show that won the Douglas Adams Award. We won loads. It was manic. We always thought we'd do a couple of years together and go our separate ways. We went from stages to the radio show to television to live shows. It went on and on.”<ref name="Noel Fielding interview - Taras Wray"/> Barratt has also commented that “Me and Noel went to HBO once and pitched this really ludicrous idea about us driving around in a haunted car and they just stared at us. Literally stared at us!... ...Luckily, we were together so we could laugh about it..."<ref name="Guardian April 2016"/> | |||
⚫ | ]'' stage show; from left to right: Rich Fulcher, Julian Barratt, Michael Fielding, Dave Brown, and Noel Fielding (March 2006)]] | ||
Fielding commented in 2015 that a film was something he talked about writing with Barratt<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/apr/13/noel-fielding-on-going-solo-and-the-mighty-boosh-id-love-to-do-a-film |title=Noel Fielding on going solo and The Mighty Boosh: 'I'd love to do a film' |first=Oliver |last=Milman |date=12 April 2015 |work=The Guardian}}</ref> and he also commented in 2013 that "I would love to do a Boosh film I really would. I hope we do cos I feel like thats what we started out wanting to do. We really wanted to do a film, really,... ...we wanted to do a film, and then we thought alright we'll do a live show. We didn't really know how to do a live show we thought we'd just learn, and then we sort of... ...we did a radio show, we did a TV show, we never quite got around to doing a film..."<ref name="Youtube 2013 - part 5"/> | |||
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In 2001 The Mighty Boosh became a six-part radio show on ], later transferring to ].<ref name="radio show Boosh">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007/10_october/24/boosh_writers.shtml|title=The Mighty Boosh|date=24 October 2007|work=BBC|access-date=4 September 2024}}</ref><ref name="Mighty Boosh A History"/> | |||
⚫ | In 2004 it became an ] which aired on ], with a second series airing in 2005, and a third airing in 2007—20 episodes in all. In each series the setting changes, with the first series set in a zoo operated by Bob Fossil, the second in a ], and the third in a secondhand shop in ] called Nabootique.<ref name="naming">{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ0Gondz_0g&feature=relmfu |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/qZ0Gondz_0g |archive-date=21 December 2021 |url-status=live|title=How The Mighty Boosh got its name – Exclusive Mike Fielding Interview – BBC |via=YouTube |date=25 June 2009 |access-date=8 September 2024}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref name= "Boosh Guardian 2006">{{cite news|url=https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/668198.mighty-boosh-star-fielding-questions/|title=Mighty Boosh star is Fielding our questions |last=Menhinnitt |first=Daniel |date=4 January 2006|work=The Guardian|access-date=11 September 2024 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240910160410/https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/668198.mighty-boosh-star-fielding-questions/|archive-date=10 September 2024|url-status=live}}</ref> The Mighty Boosh almost did not make it to television, until ]'s production company sold the concept to the BBC simply by saying: "If we were young, we'd want to be them".<ref name= "Observer 2007"/> The style of humour in the Mighty Boosh is often described as being ],<ref name="Guardian 2013 Boosh">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/sep/14/mighty-boosh-fielding-comeback-show|title=Interview: A new view of the Mighty Boosh|last=Raphael|first=Amy |date=14 September 2013|work=The Guardian|access-date=10 September 2024}}</ref><ref name="New wave comedy">{{cite journal|last=van Tricht|first=Isla|title=New Wave Comedy: Post-funny?|journal=The Yorker|date=5 March 2012|url=http://www.theyorker.co.uk/arts/featuresand%20multimedia/10733|access-date=22 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120512105531/http://theyorker.co.uk/arts/featuresand%20multimedia/10733|archive-date=12 May 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name= "Observer 2007"/><ref name="Getting Surreal 2015">{{cite web |url=https://honisoit.com/2015/04/getting-surreal-with-noel-fielding/ |title=Getting Surreal with Noel Fielding |last=Gallagher |first=Sophie |date=22 April 2015|website=Honi Soit |access-date= 3 September 2024}}</ref><ref name="September 2019 Jonathan Ross 2nd"/> as well as being escapist<ref name="Guardian 2013 Boosh"/><ref name= "Observer 2007"/> and new wave comedy.<ref name="New wave comedy"/> Fielding has said "I think our show is magical and fantastical. We tell very intricate, weird stories. Vince Noir is quite modern, a bit of an indie kid; Howard Moon is... eccentric... and we rely heavily on Julian's music and my animation".<ref name= "Observer 2007"/> | ||
It was also commented that the Mighty Boosh "... almost didn't make it to television. Around 2000, Barratt and Fielding disappeared into development hell. They had done a sketch show for Radio 4, but no one was sure how to translate their act on to TV. That's until Steve Coogan, who had seen them in Edinburgh in 1999 when they were performing as Arctic Boosh, moved things along. His production company... ...sold the concept to the BBC simply by saying: 'If we were young, we'd want to be them.'"<ref name= "Observer 2007"/> The style of humour in the Mighty Boosh is often described as being ],<ref name="Guardian 2013 Boosh">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/sep/14/mighty-boosh-fielding-comeback-show | |||
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|access-date=10 September 2024}}</ref><ref name="New wave comedy">{{cite journal|last=van Tricht|first=Isla|title=New Wave Comedy: Post-funny?|journal=The Yorker|date=5 March 2012|url=http://www.theyorker.co.uk/arts/featuresand%20multimedia/10733|accessdate=22 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120512105531/http://theyorker.co.uk/arts/featuresand%20multimedia/10733|archive-date=12 May 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name= "Observer 2007"/><ref name="Getting Surreal 2015">{{cite web |url=https://honisoit.com/2015/04/getting-surreal-with-noel-fielding/ |title=Getting Surreal with Noel Fielding |last=Gallagher |first=Sophie |date=22 April 2015|website=Honi Soit |access-date= 3 September 2024}}</ref><ref name="September 2019 Jonathan Ross 2nd"/> as well as being escapist<ref name="Guardian 2013 Boosh"/><ref name= "Observer 2007"/> and new wave comedy.<ref name="New wave comedy"/> Fielding has further commented that "I think our show is magical and fantastical. We tell very intricate, weird stories. Vince Noir is quite modern, a bit of an indie kid; Howard Moon is... ...eccentric... ...and we rely heavily on Julian's music and my animation... ...It's such a weird shambles of stuff."<ref name= "Observer 2007"/> | |||
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Fielding said that for the first three weeks of the TV show, he did all of the paintings for the animations, but this led to lack of sleep, so Ivana Zorn, ]'s partner, started doing most of the painting, with Fielding just designing the main characters.<ref name=2015reddit>{{cite web |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/41kwog/i_am_noel_fielding_comedian_actor_artist_and/ |title=I am Noel Fielding comedian, actor, artist and musician, one half of The Mighty Boosh ! I take many forms. |date=2015 |website=reddit |access-date=26 October 2024}}</ref> | ||
Fielding formed "Secret Peter Productions"<ref name="2014 Boosh Guardian 2nd"/> with |
Fielding formed "Secret Peter Productions"<ref name="2014 Boosh Guardian 2nd"/> with Nigel Coan who, along with Fielding and Zorn, helped to animate series 1 and 2 of the Mighty Boosh TV show, ''An evening with Noel Fielding'' and ''Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy''.<ref name="velvet onion January 2012"/> Coan also directed ''Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy'' as well as helping to write it along with Fielding.<ref name="velvet onion January 2012"/> Dave Brown also contributed to graphics for the Mighty Boosh.<ref name="Mighty Boosh back at university"/> Barratt composed all the music.<ref name=Guardian2011>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2011/jun/05/julian-barratt-gogol-government-inspector|title=Julian Barratt: 'Pain – that's what life is all about, isn't it?' |first=Kate |last=Kellaway|date=5 June 2011|work=The Guardian |access-date=1 September 2024}}</ref><ref name= "Observer 2007"/> Other regular Boosh collaborators included ], ], ],<ref name="velvet onion January 2012"/> ], and ]<ref name="Mighty Boosh A History"/> ''The Mighty Boosh'' won the Shockwaves NME Best TV Award three times in 2007, 2008, and 2010.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/mighty-wah-1352051 |title=The Mighty Boosh wins Best TV show at Shockwaves NME Awards – NME |date=1 March 2007 |work=NME |access-date=13 February 2018}}</ref> | ||
In 2006 Fielding and Barratt went on tour with a new theatre show '']''.<ref name="radio show Boosh"/><ref name="Youtube 2013 - part 5">{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8f1n_vugFg |title=Interview 5: Noel Fielding on The Mighty Boosh |date=26 June 2013 |website=Youtube |publisher=VelvetOnionOfficial |access-date=8 August 2024}}</ref> Fielding later said "We always thought we'd make one show and that'd be the end of it. But after we won the ], everyone was telling us that we had to do another, which we did and brought it to ] and won the ], and then we made a radio show that won the Douglas Adams Award... It went on and on".<ref name="Noel Fielding interview - Taras Wray"/> | |||
''The Mighty Boosh'' won the Shockwaves NME Best TV Award three times in 2007, 2008 and 2010.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/mighty-wah-1352051 |title=The Mighty Boosh wins Best TV show at Shockwaves NME Awards – NME |date=1 March 2007 |work=NME |access-date=13 February 2018}}</ref> | |||
⚫ | Fielding has said several times that he talked about writing a film with Barratt,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/apr/13/noel-fielding-on-going-solo-and-the-mighty-boosh-id-love-to-do-a-film |title=Noel Fielding on going solo and The Mighty Boosh: 'I'd love to do a film' |first=Oliver |last=Milman |date=12 April 2015 |work=The Guardian}}</ref> and he would have loved to do so, but they never got around to it.<ref name="Youtube 2013 - part 5"/><ref name="2014 Boosh Guardian">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/jan/08/mighty-boosh-noel-fielding-debunks-movie-rumour|title=Noel Fielding debunks rumours of Mighty Boosh tour and movie|date=8 January 2014|last=Trueman|first=Matt|work=The Guardian|access-date=10 September 2024}}</ref> They wrote two film scripts which did not make it to production. One was a "'']'' type thing", according to Fielding, in which Barratt played a character who has woken up believing himself to be the last man on earth. The other was an Arctic adventure – "because we always liked the Arctic".<ref name="2014 Boosh Guardian"/> | ||
The name "Mighty Boosh" was originally a phrase used by a friend of Michael Fielding's to describe the hair that Michael had as a child.<ref name="naming" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HJ9u6bHG_I&t=97s |title=The History of The Mighty Boosh |date=24 September 2019 |website= Youtube|publisher=Absolute Jokes |access-date=4 September 2024 |quote=Jonathan Ross:"Where did the name the Mighty Boosh originate and does it mean anything?" Fielding: "My brother whos in the green room who plays... ...Naboo he had sort of curly hair when he was little... ...and he had a little friend who... ..used to go "you've got a Mighty Boosh".}}</ref> From August 2008 to January 2009 they went on tour for a second time with a new stage show of the ].<ref name="2014 Boosh Guardian"/> | |||
===Other television appearances=== | |||
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], and Julian Barratt on the set of series one of ''The Mighty Boosh'' TV series (2004)]] | ||
At ]'s request, Fielding stood in as a team captain for three episodes during series 21 of ''Never Mind the Buzzcocks''. He also achieved a record for the highest team score ever on the show. When Bailey returned, presenter ] made various jokes about Fielding's departure. In 2009, Bailey left the show and Fielding became one of the regular team captains. | At ]'s request, Fielding stood in as a team captain for three episodes during series 21 of ''Never Mind the Buzzcocks''. He also achieved a record for the highest team score ever on the show. When Bailey returned, presenter ] made various jokes about Fielding's departure. In 2009, Bailey left the show and Fielding became one of the regular team captains.{{citation needed|date=December 2024}} | ||
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Between 2006 and 2017 Fielding appeared thirteen times on the quiz show '']''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2010/10/29/12026/noel_fieldings_new_show |title=Noel Fielding's new show : News 2010 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide |publisher=Chortle |date=29 October 2010 |access-date=13 August 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/big_fat_quiz_of_the_year/episodes/1/21/ |title=Big Fat Quiz 2017 |website=Comedy King}}</ref> as well as its spin-off shows '']'', '']''<ref name ="The Big Fat Quiz of the Decade">{{cite web |url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/big_fat_quiz_of_the_year/episodes/1/12/|title=The Big Fat Quiz of the Year – British Comedy Guide |publisher=Comedy.co.uk |access-date=22 November 2024}}</ref> and '']''. He appeared on the quiz show three times with ],<ref name ="The Big Fat Quiz of the Year">{{cite web |url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/big_fat_quiz_of_the_year/episodes/1/3/ |title=The Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2006 – British Comedy Guide |publisher=Comedy.co.uk |access-date=22 November 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/big_fat_quiz_of_the_year/episodes/1/5/ |title=The Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2007– British Comedy Guide |publisher=Comedy.co.uk |access-date=22 November 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/big_fat_quiz_of_the_year/episodes/1/18/ |title=The Big Fat Anniversary Quiz – British Comedy Guide |publisher=Comedy.co.uk |access-date=22 November 2024}}</ref> nine times with ]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.comedy.co.uk/guide/tv/big_fat_quiz_of_the_year/episodes/1/8/ |title=The Big Fat Quiz of the Year – episode 1.8. The Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2010 – British Comedy Guide |publisher=Comedy.co.uk |access-date=13 August 2012}}</ref> and once with Eddie Izzard.<ref name=Everyting>{{cite web |url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/the_big_fat_quiz_of_everything/episodes/1/3/ |title=The Big Fat Quiz of Everyting – British Comedy Guide |publisher=Comedy.co.uk |access-date=22 November 2024}}</ref> | ||
https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/big_fat_quiz_of_the_year/episodes/1/12/|title=The Big Fat Quiz of the Year – British Comedy Guide |publisher=Comedy.co.uk |access-date=22 November 2024}}</ref> and the '']''. He appeared on the quiz show three times with ],<ref name ="The Big Fat Quiz of the Year">{{cite web |url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/big_fat_quiz_of_the_year/episodes/1/3/ |title=The Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2006 – British Comedy Guide |publisher=Comedy.co.uk |access-date=22 November 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/big_fat_quiz_of_the_year/episodes/1/5/ |title=The Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2007– British Comedy Guide |publisher=Comedy.co.uk |access-date=22 November 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/big_fat_quiz_of_the_year/episodes/1/18/ |title=The Big Fat Anniversary Quiz – British Comedy Guide |publisher=Comedy.co.uk |access-date=22 November 2024}}</ref> nine times with ]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.comedy.co.uk/guide/tv/big_fat_quiz_of_the_year/episodes/1/8/ |title=The Big Fat Quiz of the Year – episode 1.8. The Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2010 – British Comedy Guide |publisher=Comedy.co.uk |access-date=13 August 2012}}</ref> and once with Eddie Izzard.<ref name=Everyting>{{cite web |url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/the_big_fat_quiz_of_everything/episodes/1/3/ |title=The Big Fat Quiz of Everyting – British Comedy Guide |publisher=Comedy.co.uk |access-date=22 November 2024}}</ref> | |||
In 2011, he took part in ]'s TV movie ''Laughing at the Noughties'' in which he and other British comedians discussed the comedy highlights of the noughties.<ref>{{cite web |title=Catherine Tate: Laughing at the Noughties (2011) |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4f4bb482b7ca9 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220323170916/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4f4bb482b7ca9 |url-status=dead |archive-date=23 March 2022 |access-date=23 March 2022 |website=BFI}}</ref> | In 2011, he took part in ]'s TV movie ''Laughing at the Noughties'' in which he and other British comedians discussed the comedy highlights of the noughties.<ref>{{cite web |title=Catherine Tate: Laughing at the Noughties (2011) |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4f4bb482b7ca9 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220323170916/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4f4bb482b7ca9 |url-status=dead |archive-date=23 March 2022 |access-date=23 March 2022 |website=BFI}}</ref> | ||
] as Saboo]] | ] as Saboo]] | ||
Fielding produced his first solo series for Channel 4 network's ] channel in 2011,<ref name="E4com-2010">{{cite web |url=http://www.e4.com/blog/e4-blog/post/cwdcyqqdpcaifhrfbxogoo/view.e4 |title=Noel Fielding joins E4 – E4 blog |publisher=E4.com |date=29 October 2010 |access-date=13 August 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111123150704/http://www.e4.com/blog/e4-blog/post/cwdcyqqdpcaifhrfbxogoo/view.e4 |archive-date=23 November 2011}}</ref> as the broadcaster invested an additional £5 million in its comedy budget following the cancellation of reality show '']''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/heard-the-one-about-channel-4-2119328.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220621/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/heard-the-one-about-channel-4-2119328.html |archive-date=21 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |location=London |work=The Independent |title=Heard the one about Channel 4? |date=29 October 2010}}</ref> Fielding said of the project, tentatively titled ''Noel Fielding: Boopus'': "I want to make something in the spirit of ] or ] but using modern techniques. Blending filmed comedy with animation. Television needs a madman! I want the show to be psychedelic and beautiful but have charm and personality. If ] made a show hopefully it would look like this."<ref name="E4com-2010" /><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/oct/29/the-inbetweeners-specials?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487 |location=London |work=The Guardian |first=John |last=Plunkett |title=The Inbetweeners to return for two specials |date=29 October 2010}}</ref> The show began broadcasting in January 2012, titled '' |
Fielding produced his first solo series for Channel 4 network's ] channel in 2011,<ref name="E4com-2010">{{cite web |url=http://www.e4.com/blog/e4-blog/post/cwdcyqqdpcaifhrfbxogoo/view.e4 |title=Noel Fielding joins E4 – E4 blog |publisher=E4.com |date=29 October 2010 |access-date=13 August 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111123150704/http://www.e4.com/blog/e4-blog/post/cwdcyqqdpcaifhrfbxogoo/view.e4 |archive-date=23 November 2011}}</ref> as the broadcaster invested an additional £5 million in its comedy budget following the cancellation of reality show '']''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/heard-the-one-about-channel-4-2119328.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220621/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/heard-the-one-about-channel-4-2119328.html |archive-date=21 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |location=London |work=The Independent |title=Heard the one about Channel 4? |date=29 October 2010}}</ref> Fielding said of the project, tentatively titled ''Noel Fielding: Boopus'': "I want to make something in the spirit of ] or ] but using modern techniques. Blending filmed comedy with animation. Television needs a madman! I want the show to be psychedelic and beautiful but have charm and personality. If ] made a show hopefully it would look like this."<ref name="E4com-2010" /><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/oct/29/the-inbetweeners-specials?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487 |location=London |work=The Guardian |first=John |last=Plunkett |title=The Inbetweeners to return for two specials |date=29 October 2010}}</ref> The show began broadcasting in January 2012, titled ''Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy.'' The show's second series, titled ''Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy 2: Tales From Painted Hawaii'', was first broadcast on E4 in 2014.<ref>{{cite web |title=Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy – E4 Sketch Show |url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/noel_fieldings_luxury_comedy/ |access-date=9 September 2020 |website=British Comedy Guide}}</ref> | ||
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In 2024, Fielding played ] in an ] comedy series, '']''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Great British Bake Off's Noel Fielding lands new TV series |url=https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a39713343/the-great-british-bake-off-noel-fielding-new-tv-series/ |work=] |last=Haigh |first=Josh |date=13 April 2022 |access-date=14 April 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Cordero |first1=Rosy |title=Noel Fielding Sets Off On Wacky Adventure In The Trailer For 'The Completely Made-Up Adventures Of Dick Turpin' |url=https://deadline.com/video/noel-fielding-trailer-the-completely-made-up-adventures-of-dick-turpin/ |access-date=9 February 2024 |work=] |date=5 February 2024}}</ref> | In 2024, Fielding played ] in an ] comedy series, '']''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Great British Bake Off's Noel Fielding lands new TV series |url=https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a39713343/the-great-british-bake-off-noel-fielding-new-tv-series/ |work=] |last=Haigh |first=Josh |date=13 April 2022 |access-date=14 April 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Cordero |first1=Rosy |title=Noel Fielding Sets Off On Wacky Adventure In The Trailer For 'The Completely Made-Up Adventures Of Dick Turpin' |url=https://deadline.com/video/noel-fielding-trailer-the-completely-made-up-adventures-of-dick-turpin/ |access-date=9 February 2024 |work=] |date=5 February 2024}}</ref> | ||
According to ]'s ], Fielding was scheduled to appear in the film '']'', but had to drop out due to ill health.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2006/09/stardust-news.html |title=Stardust news... |website=journal.neilgaiman.com}}</ref> | According to ]'s ], Fielding was scheduled to appear in the 2007 film '']'', but had to drop out due to ill health.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2006/09/stardust-news.html |title=Stardust news... |website=journal.neilgaiman.com}}</ref> | ||
===Radio=== | ===Radio=== | ||
] and Ivana Zorn all helped to create the animation that was used in the Mighty Boosh TV show.<ref name="Mighty Boosh A History"/><ref name= "Observer 2007"/><ref name="IMDB Nigel Coan"/> Dave Brown also contributed to graphics for the Mighty Boosh including the DVD cover art for the ''Mighty Boosh Live'' 2006 stage show and all the publishing output.<ref name="The History of The Mighty Boosh"/><ref name="Mighty Boosh back at university"/> Barratt also "...composed all the music for The Mighty Boosh."<ref name=Guardian2011/><ref name= "Observer 2007"/> with Fielding contributing to the melodies.<ref name="Jonathan Ross November 2007"/> Both Barratt and Fielding wrote the lyrics for the music together.<ref name="Jonathan Ross November 2007"/> 2006</small>]] | ] and Ivana Zorn all helped to create the animation that was used in the Mighty Boosh TV show.<ref name="Mighty Boosh A History"/><ref name= "Observer 2007"/><ref name="IMDB Nigel Coan">{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2276744/ |title=Nigel Coan |date= |website=imdb.com |publisher=IMDB |access-date= 2 September 2024}}</ref> Dave Brown also contributed to graphics for the Mighty Boosh including the DVD cover art for the ''Mighty Boosh Live'' 2006 stage show and all the publishing output.<ref name="The History of The Mighty Boosh">{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HJ9u6bHG_I&t=367s |title=The History of The Mighty Boosh |date=24 September 2019 |website= Youtube|publisher=Absolute Jokes |access-date=4 September 2024 |quote=Jonathan Ross:"And this is all your artwork in'it?" (Refferring to the DVD cover of the 2006 ''Mighty Boosh Live ''stage show) Noel Fielding: "Well actually, um, Bollo did that. He's a graphic designer."}}</ref><ref name="Mighty Boosh back at university"/> Barratt also "...composed all the music for The Mighty Boosh."<ref name=Guardian2011/><ref name= "Observer 2007"/> with Fielding contributing to the melodies.<ref name="Jonathan Ross November 2007"/> Both Barratt and Fielding wrote the lyrics for the music together.<ref name="Jonathan Ross November 2007"/> 2006</small>]] | ||
In November 2007, Fielding starred in five episodes of ] show '']'' as a local vagrant who knocks on Reeves' door once a week to ask for work.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/comedy/vicreeves.shtml |title=BBC – Radio 2 Comedy – Vic Reeves' House Arrest |publisher=BBC}}</ref> | In November 2007, Fielding starred in five episodes of ] show '']'' as a local vagrant who knocks on Reeves' door once a week to ask for work.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/comedy/vicreeves.shtml |title=BBC – Radio 2 Comedy – Vic Reeves' House Arrest |publisher=BBC}}</ref> | ||
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The music video was directed by ]. He was referenced in Kasabian's "La Fée Verte", a track on their '']'' album (his friend ] said "The line, 'I met Dalí in the street.' Dalí is Noel Fielding. And he is the modern-day Dalí"). Fielding also makes a brief appearance as Vlad in the video for another Kasabian song, "]", riding a five-seater bicycle with the band, and appears as a patient in a psychiatric hospital in "You're In Love With a Psycho", in which he re-enacts the broken mirror routine from the Marx Brothers film '']'' with Pizzorno and Tom Meighan.<ref>{{cite web |date=30 March 2017 |title=Watch Noel Fielding dance with Kasabian in the new video for 'You're In Love With A Psycho' |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/kasabian-noel-fielding-video-youre-in-love-with-a-psycho-2030367 |access-date=12 July 2020 |website=NME}}</ref> He has also appeared in ]'s music video "]" as a means of thanks for the '']'' performance.<ref>{{cite web |date=27 April 2011 |title=Watch Noel Fielding in Kate Bush's 'Deeper Understanding' video on NME.COM |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/kate-bush-35-1295585 |access-date=12 July 2020 |website=NME}}</ref> | The music video was directed by ]. He was referenced in Kasabian's "La Fée Verte", a track on their '']'' album (his friend ] said "The line, 'I met Dalí in the street.' Dalí is Noel Fielding. And he is the modern-day Dalí"). Fielding also makes a brief appearance as Vlad in the video for another Kasabian song, "]", riding a five-seater bicycle with the band, and appears as a patient in a psychiatric hospital in "You're In Love With a Psycho", in which he re-enacts the broken mirror routine from the Marx Brothers film '']'' with Pizzorno and Tom Meighan.<ref>{{cite web |date=30 March 2017 |title=Watch Noel Fielding dance with Kasabian in the new video for 'You're In Love With A Psycho' |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/kasabian-noel-fielding-video-youre-in-love-with-a-psycho-2030367 |access-date=12 July 2020 |website=NME}}</ref> He has also appeared in ]'s music video "]" as a means of thanks for the '']'' performance.<ref>{{cite web |date=27 April 2011 |title=Watch Noel Fielding in Kate Bush's 'Deeper Understanding' video on NME.COM |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/kate-bush-35-1295585 |access-date=12 July 2020 |website=NME}}</ref> | ||
Fielding paired up with Sergio Pizzorno (Kasabian) to form a band, ], |
Fielding paired up with Sergio Pizzorno (Kasabian) to form a band, ], formed to provide music for ''Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/kasabian-64-1238028|title=Kasabian's Serge Pizzorno teams up with Noel Fielding for second series of 'Luxury Comedy' |website=nme.com|date=10 July 2014|access-date=8 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-41081686 |title=Kasabian's Serge persuaded Noel Fielding to take the Great British Bake Off job |last1=Garvan |first1=Sinead|last2=Rahman-Jones |first2=Imran|date=29 August 2017|work=BBC News|access-date=10 September 2024|quote=The pair collaborated on Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy on Channel 4, as the band The Loose Tapestries.}}</ref><ref name="2014 Boosh Guardian 2nd">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/may/18/food-tales-noel-fielding-mighty-boosh|title=Noel Fielding: What I craved after those Mighty Boosh shows was milk|last=Hind|first=John|date=18 May 2014 |work=The Guardian|access-date=10 September 2024}}</ref> Loose Tapestries released two albums and a Christmas single.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/kasabian-11-1205434 |title=Noel Fielding and Kasabian's Serge Pizzorno reveal 'Can't Wait for Christmas' single – listen |website=] |date=4 December 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2016/06/08/25042/noel_fieldings_album_released |title=Noel Fielding's album released : News 2016 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide |website=chortle.co.uk}}</ref> | ||
===Art=== | ===Art=== | ||
⚫ | Fielding has exhibited his paintings in London.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/1903219.mighty-boosh-comics-art-goes-on-display/|title=Mighty Boosh comic's art goes on display |last=Husbands|first=Helen |date=14 December 2007|work=The Guardian|access-date=10 September 2024}}</ref><ref name="Jones-2007">{{cite news |last=Jones |first=Sam |title=He's a Mick Jagger of comedy ... sweet but unbelievably mischievous and naughty, like a very cheeky puppy |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2007/dec/14/comedy.arts |date=14 December 2007 |access-date=18 October 2014 |location=London}}</ref><ref name="the Guardian-2011">{{cite web |date=20 November 2011 |title=Noel Fielding: a brush with comic genius {{!}} interview |url=http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2011/nov/20/noel-fielding-mighty-boosh-art |last=Kellaway |first=Kate |access-date=23 January 2022 |website=the Guardian}}</ref> He held his first exhibition of his paintings, entitled ''Psychedelic Dreams of the Jelly Fox'',<ref name="Jones-2007"/> in a gallery above the patisserie ],<ref name="Noel Fielding – Artist"/><ref name="Jones-2007"/> in ], ] in December 2007.<ref name="Jones-2007"/> There Fielding listed some of his inspirations as ], ], ], ], ], a former tutor of his from the Croydon School of Art<ref name="Noel Fielding – Artist">{{cite web |url=http://www.hooliganartdealer.com/hooliganartdealer/Noel_Fielding.html |work=Hooligan art dealer|access-date=27 June 2010 |title=Noel Fielding – Artist}}</ref> and Fielding has also cited ] as an inspiration.<ref name="Noel Fielding – Artist"/> A second exhibition of his paintings entitled ''Bryan Ferry vs the Jelly Fox'' also took place at Maison Bertaux, from 5 July 2010 through to 5 January 2011.<ref name="Noel Fielding – Artist"/><ref name="Noel Fielding's life of Bryan">{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2010/jun/27/noel-fielding-maison-bertaux-ferry |work=The Guardian |access-date=1 January 2016 |title=Noel Fielding's life of Bryan |date=26 June 2010}}</ref> | ||
He held his first exhibition of his paintings, entitled ''Psychedelic Dreams of the Jelly Fox'',<ref name="Jones-2007"/> in a gallery above the patisserie ],<ref name="Noel Fielding – Artist"/><ref name="Jones-2007"/> in ], ] in December 2007.<ref name="Jones-2007"/> There Fielding listed some of his inspirations as ], ], ], ], ], a former tutor of his from the Croydon School of Art<ref name="Noel Fielding – Artist">{{cite web |url=http://www.hooliganartdealer.com/hooliganartdealer/Noel_Fielding.html |work=Hooligan art dealer|access-date=27 June 2010 |title=Noel Fielding – Artist}}</ref> and Fielding has also cited ] as an inspiration.<ref name="Noel Fielding – Artist"/> A second exhibition of his paintings entitled ''Bryan Ferry vs the Jelly Fox'' also took place at Maison Bertaux, from 5 July 2010 through to 5 January 2011.<ref name="Noel Fielding – Artist"/><ref name="Noel Fielding's life of Bryan">{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2010/jun/27/noel-fielding-maison-bertaux-ferry |work=The Guardian |access-date=1 January 2016 |title=Noel Fielding's life of Bryan |date=26 June 2010}}</ref> | |||
In October 2011, Fielding released an art book called ''Scribblings of a Madcap Shambleton'', which he produced along with ''The Mighty Boosh'' cast member ]. It features many of his old and new paintings, drawings and photography.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/interactive/2011/nov/18/noel-fielding-the-scribblings-of-a-madcap-shambleton |work=The Guardian |access-date=18 November 2011 |title=Noel Fielding: The Scribblings of a Madcap Shambleton |date=18 November 2011}}</ref> | In October 2011, Fielding released an art book called ''Scribblings of a Madcap Shambleton'', which he produced along with ''The Mighty Boosh'' cast member ]. It features many of his old and new paintings, drawings and photography.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/interactive/2011/nov/18/noel-fielding-the-scribblings-of-a-madcap-shambleton |work=The Guardian |access-date=18 November 2011 |title=Noel Fielding: The Scribblings of a Madcap Shambleton |date=18 November 2011}}</ref> | ||
Fielding's video installation of ''The Jelly Fox'' was shown at the Saatchi Gallery, and in 2012 he created a unique piece inspired by ] for ''Liverpool Love'' at the ]. In March 2015, his exhibition ''He Wore Dreams Around Unkind Faces'' was shown at the ].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.royalalberthall.com/about-the-hall/news/2015/march/the-mighty-brush-behind-the-scenes-at-noel-fieldings-new-exhibition |access-date=1 February 2016 |title=The Mighty Brush: Behind the scenes at Noel Fielding's new exhibition}}</ref> |
Fielding's video installation of ''The Jelly Fox'' was shown at the Saatchi Gallery, and in 2012 he created a unique piece inspired by ] for ''Liverpool Love'' at the ]. In March 2015, his exhibition ''He Wore Dreams Around Unkind Faces'' was shown at the ].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.royalalberthall.com/about-the-hall/news/2015/march/the-mighty-brush-behind-the-scenes-at-noel-fieldings-new-exhibition |access-date=1 February 2016 |title=The Mighty Brush: Behind the scenes at Noel Fielding's new exhibition}}</ref> | ||
In January 2021, the luxury fashion house ] unveiled a collection featuring abstract takes on the brand's logo, created by Fielding.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/fall-2021-menswear/fendi |date=16 January 2021 |title=Fendi Fall 2021 Menswear Collection |first=Luke |last=Leitch |work=] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125123534/https://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/fall-2021-menswear/fendi |archive-date=25 January 2021}}</ref> | |||
==Recognition and honours == | ==Recognition and honours == | ||
On 6 September 2011, Fielding received an honorary master's degree from his alma mater, now called ], for his ongoing interest in the graphics area and support for many art organisations.<ref name="Mighty Boosh back at university"/><ref name="Bucks October 2014"/> | On 6 September 2011, Fielding received an honorary master's degree from his alma mater, now called ], for his ongoing interest in the graphics area and support for many art organisations.<ref name="Mighty Boosh back at university"/><ref name="Bucks October 2014"/> | ||
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==Personal life== | ==Personal life== | ||
Fielding was formerly in a relationship with ] lead vocalist Dee Plume, who made minor appearances in '']'' and in its live adaptations.<ref name="the Guardian-2011" /> | |||
Fielding was formerly in a relationship with ] lead vocalist Dee Plume, who made minor appearances in '']'' and in its live adaptations.<ref name="the Guardian-2011" /> In 2007, it was reported that Fielding, then 33 and a close friend of ], had been seen in nightclubs, kissing the then-16 ] after reportedly dating her year-older sister the year prior. <ref>{{cite news|title=Pixie, 16, falls for Noel, 33 - but don't tell her old man |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/pixie-16-falls-for-noel-33-but-don-t-tell-her-old-man-7259708.html|url-status=dead|quote=The news is also likely to come as a shock for Peaches, who claimed she was dating Fielding a year ago|date=8 April 2007|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230918024505/https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/pixie-16-falls-for-noel-33-but-don-t-tell-her-old-man-7259708.html|archive-date=18 September 2023| access-date=26 November 2024|work=Evening Standard}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Laugh Lines: From Asylum to The Mighty Boosh |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2010/apr/01/laugh-lines-asylum-mighty-boosh|date=1 April 2010|work=The Guardian|quote=Fielding has embraced stardom, socialising with Courtney Love and Pixie Geldof.|access-date=26 Nov 2024}}</ref> The next month, Plume ended the relationship as a result of the coverage of his relationship with the schoolgirl.<ref>{{cite news|title= Mighty Push: Lanky comedian Noel Fielding has been dumped by his long-term girlfriend over his relationship with schoolgirl Pixie Geldof |work=Sunday People |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/mighty-push-1635602|date=6 May 2007|quote=Noel, 33-year-old star of hit show The Mighty Boosh, has been seeing the 16-year-old daughter of Sir Bob for several weeks.|access-date=26 November 2024}}</ref> | |||
He began dating radio DJ Lliana Bird sometime around 2010. Their first child, a daughter named Dali (after artist ]), was born in 2018. They were living in the ] area of ] at the time.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2018/0303/944760-gbbos-noel-fielding-and-partner-to-welcome-baby/ |title=GBBO's Noel Fielding and partner to welcome baby |date=3 March 2018 |publisher=Raidió Teilifís Éireann |access-date=14 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.ok.co.uk/celebrity-news/1350681/noel-fielding-baby-name-lliana-birds-boy-girl-great-british-bake-off-mighty-boosh |title=Noel Fielding and Lliana Bird's unusual baby name choice revealed |last=Earp |first=Catherine |date=13 April 2018 |work=OK! |access-date=10 June 2018}}</ref> The couple's second daughter, Iggy (after ]), was born in 2020.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.digitalspy.com/showbiz/a34522671/great-british-bake-off-noel-fielding-daughter-name/ |title=Bake off host Noel Fielding welcomes second baby with Lliana Bird |website=] |date=29 October 2020}}</ref> | He began dating radio DJ Lliana Bird sometime around 2010. Their first child, a daughter named Dali (after artist ]), was born in 2018. They were living in the ] area of ] at the time.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2018/0303/944760-gbbos-noel-fielding-and-partner-to-welcome-baby/ |title=GBBO's Noel Fielding and partner to welcome baby |date=3 March 2018 |publisher=Raidió Teilifís Éireann |access-date=14 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.ok.co.uk/celebrity-news/1350681/noel-fielding-baby-name-lliana-birds-boy-girl-great-british-bake-off-mighty-boosh |title=Noel Fielding and Lliana Bird's unusual baby name choice revealed |last=Earp |first=Catherine |date=13 April 2018 |work=OK! |access-date=10 June 2018}}</ref> The couple's second daughter, Iggy (after ]), was born in 2020.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.digitalspy.com/showbiz/a34522671/great-british-bake-off-noel-fielding-daughter-name/ |title=Bake off host Noel Fielding welcomes second baby with Lliana Bird |website=] |date=29 October 2020}}</ref> | ||
During his time at art college, Fielding developed |
During his time at art college, Fielding developed suspected ].<ref name="Rumbelow-2009" /><ref name="Youtube-2013 - Part 1"/> ], who studied the same course as Fielding at art college<ref name="velvet onion January 2012"/> and also shared a flat with him during this time, helped Fielding during this period.<ref name="Youtube-2013 - Part 1"/> Fielding was ill and exhausted for a year, and was unable to consume alcohol for five years afterwards.<ref name ="Guardian 2013 2nd"/> | ||
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British actor and comedian (born 1973)
Noel Fielding | |
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Fielding in 2006 | |
Born | (1973-05-21) May 21, 1973 (age 51) Westminster, London, England |
Education | Croydon College of Art Buckinghamshire New University (BA) |
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Years active | 1996–present |
Partner | Lliana Bird (c. 2010–present) |
Children | 2 |
Relatives | Michael Fielding (half-brother) |
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Website | noelfielding |
Noel Fielding (/ˈnəʊəl/; born May 21, 1973) is an English comedian and actor. He was part of The Mighty Boosh comedy troupe alongside Julian Barratt in the 2000s, and has been a co-presenter of The Great British Bake Off since 2017. He is known for his dark and surreal comedic style.
Fielding began performing stand-up comedy when he graduated from art school in 1995, and in 1997 he first met Mighty Boosh collaborator Barratt when they both appeared on the same comedy bill at a pub in north London. Around 1998, they performed their first comedy show together in London, which was a mix of stand-up and sketch comedy, then later in 1998 they took the show, The Mighty Boosh, to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. They returned to the festival in 1999 with Arctic Boosh, and in 2000 with Autoboosh. In 2001 The Mighty Boosh became a six-part radio show on BBC London Live, called The Boosh later transferring to BBC radio 4.
In 2004, the Mighty Boosh became a television show The Mighty Boosh, which ran for three series on BBC Three until 2007. The show generated a cult following and won awards. From February to April 2006 they went on tour around the UK with the stage show The Mighty Boosh Live and then toured the UK for a second time from September 2008 to January 2009 with The Mighty Boosh Live: Future Sailors Tour.
During the 2000s, Fielding also had smaller roles in other comedy shows for Channel 4 including Nathan Barley, The IT Crowd, AD/BC: A Rock Opera, and Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. After The Mighty Boosh, he wrote and starred in two series of a solo show for Channel 4 called Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy, which ran between 2012 and 2014. He has also appeared as a team captain on the BBC Two comedy panel show Never Mind the Buzzcocks, originally from 2009 to 2015, and again since 2021, and as a guest on Richard Ayoade's Travel Man series. He has also appeared in several music videos.
Fielding, along with Sergio Pizzorno from the band Kasabian, formed the band Loose Tapestries as an alternative project in 2012, to provide music for Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy. Fielding has also exhibited his artwork in London, and collaborated with Fendi for their autumn/winter 2021 menswear collection.
Early life and education
Fielding was born in the Westminster area of London in 1973, the son of Royal Mail manager Ray Fielding and Yvonne Fagan. He is of French descent through his grandmother. He grew up in Mitcham, Southwest London When Fielding was three years old, his father remarried, and Fielding was mostly raised by his grandmother.
His father and stepmother Diane would later become more involved in parenting during Fielding's mother's illness in the 1980s. His mother had two more children before dying in 1990 aged 37 years old, from complications caused by liver damage. Fielding has commented that "My parents had lots of parties... They were hopelessly bohemian."
Michael Fielding, his younger paternal half-brother, later played various characters in The Mighty Boosh TV show and live stage shows as well as Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy. His father Ray Fielding and his stepmother appeared in The Mighty Boosh TV show, with his father having several cameos as Chris de Burgh.
At the age of 13 Fielding began writing comedy sketches. At the age of 15, Fielding became a goth and had goth girlfriends. At this time he first tried using makeup and said he loved being dressed up by his girlfriends.
Whilst studying at Croydon Art College Fielding met Mighty Boosh collaborator Dave Brown. From 1992 to 1995 Fielding studied for a BA in graphic design and advertising at Buckinghamshire College of Higher Education in High Wycombe, graduating in 1995.
Whilst at Buckinghamshire College both Dave Brown and Nigel Coan were studying the same course as Fielding and all three shared a student house together. Nigel Coan also collaborated with Fielding on the Mighty Boosh. After they had lived together in student housing whilst at Buckinghamshire College, Fielding, Brown, and Coan also later lived together in a flat in Hackney, London.
Career
Stand-up comedy
Fielding began performing comedy while at university and he began performing stand up when he graduated in 1995.
In 1997 he first met Mighty Boosh collaborator Julian Barratt when they both appeared on the same comedy bill at a pub in north London. Barratt had had more experience in performing than Fielding. Later, on The Jonathan Ross Show, Barratt said that they had liked each other's comedy but didn't know if a collaboration would work, but, according to Fielding, they "had quite a good chemistry straight away."
On the day they met they both went back to Julian's place that night where Barratt played music on his Akai sampler while Fielding used a ping-pong ball to make an eye patch. They shared an interest in music, with Fielding more into rock and roll and pop, and Barratt preferring jazz, but both enjoyed electro. Both had played in bands before meeting. They also shared common interests in comedy, including Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer.
In 2010, Fielding was supposed to perform a solo tour across the country. It was cancelled so he could concentrate on writing The Mighty Boosh film with Julian Barratt and creating an album. Fielding announced via Twitter that he was too busy to do the tour. From 2014 to 2015 Fielding toured the UK and Australia with a new comedy show An Evening With Noel Fielding that included both stand-up comedy and sketch comedy and along with Fielding included performances from his brother Michael Fielding and long-term collaborator Tom Meeten. Mighty Boosh collaborator Nigel Coan created the animation for the animated sequences that occurred in the show.
Montreal's Just For Laughs comedy festival had to be moved online, during the COVID-19 pandemic. On 20 October 2020 Fielding and Jimmy Carr live streamed a conversation from their respective homes.
The Mighty Boosh
Main article: The Mighty BooshBarratt and Fielding said that they performed together for the first time in Stuart Lee's show, Moby Dick and King Dong (at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 1997), in which Barratt played King Dong's penis.
Sometime around 1998 they then put on their first comedy show at Oranje Boom Boom, which "was very raw, but... hilarious", and afterwards got a gig at Hen and Chickens Theatre, a theatre bar in Islington, London. They then took The Mighty Boosh up to Edinburgh in 1998, followed by Arctic Boosh (1999) and Autoboosh (2000). Fielding said about their first live show in 1998 that they had worked on their ideas together, and played "zookeepers got sucked through our bosses' eyes and into a magic forest". Both Michael Fielding and Richard Ayoade appeared in a performance of the Mighty Boosh at the Hen and Chickens in 2002 during a live run through of a Mighty Boosh pilot. Fielding and Barratt said that they used to put potted plants all around the Hen and Chickens "to try and make it into a sort of play", but they "didn't know anything about theatre or what you did". The name "Mighty Boosh" was originally a phrase used by a friend of Michael Fielding's to describe the hair that Michael had as a child. From August 2008 to January 2009 they went on tour for a second time with a new stage show of the Mighty Boosh.
In 2001 The Mighty Boosh became a six-part radio show on BBC London Live, later transferring to BBC Radio 4.
In 2004 it became an 8-part TV show which aired on BBC Three, with a second series airing in 2005, and a third airing in 2007—20 episodes in all. In each series the setting changes, with the first series set in a zoo operated by Bob Fossil, the second in a flat, and the third in a secondhand shop in Dalston called Nabootique. The Mighty Boosh almost did not make it to television, until Steve Coogan's production company sold the concept to the BBC simply by saying: "If we were young, we'd want to be them". The style of humour in the Mighty Boosh is often described as being surreal, as well as being escapist and new wave comedy. Fielding has said "I think our show is magical and fantastical. We tell very intricate, weird stories. Vince Noir is quite modern, a bit of an indie kid; Howard Moon is... eccentric... and we rely heavily on Julian's music and my animation".
Fielding said that for the first three weeks of the TV show, he did all of the paintings for the animations, but this led to lack of sleep, so Ivana Zorn, Nigel Coan's partner, started doing most of the painting, with Fielding just designing the main characters. Fielding formed "Secret Peter Productions" with Nigel Coan who, along with Fielding and Zorn, helped to animate series 1 and 2 of the Mighty Boosh TV show, An evening with Noel Fielding and Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy. Coan also directed Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy as well as helping to write it along with Fielding. Dave Brown also contributed to graphics for the Mighty Boosh. Barratt composed all the music. Other regular Boosh collaborators included Michael Fielding, Rich Fulcher, Dave Brown, Richard Ayoade, and Matt Berry The Mighty Boosh won the Shockwaves NME Best TV Award three times in 2007, 2008, and 2010.
In 2006 Fielding and Barratt went on tour with a new theatre show The Mighty Boosh Live. Fielding later said "We always thought we'd make one show and that'd be the end of it. But after we won the Perrier, everyone was telling us that we had to do another, which we did and brought it to Melbourne and won the Barry, and then we made a radio show that won the Douglas Adams Award... It went on and on".
Fielding has said several times that he talked about writing a film with Barratt, and he would have loved to do so, but they never got around to it. They wrote two film scripts which did not make it to production. One was a "Rocky Horror Picture Show type thing", according to Fielding, in which Barratt played a character who has woken up believing himself to be the last man on earth. The other was an Arctic adventure – "because we always liked the Arctic".
Other television appearances
At Bill Bailey's request, Fielding stood in as a team captain for three episodes during series 21 of Never Mind the Buzzcocks. He also achieved a record for the highest team score ever on the show. When Bailey returned, presenter Simon Amstell made various jokes about Fielding's departure. In 2009, Bailey left the show and Fielding became one of the regular team captains.
Between 2006 and 2017 Fielding appeared thirteen times on the quiz show The Big Fat Quiz of the Year as well as its spin-off shows The Big Fat Anniversary Quiz, The Big Fat Quiz of the Decade and The Big Fat Quiz of Everything. He appeared on the quiz show three times with Russell Brand, nine times with Richard Ayoade and once with Eddie Izzard.
In 2011, he took part in Catherine Tate's TV movie Laughing at the Noughties in which he and other British comedians discussed the comedy highlights of the noughties.
Fielding produced his first solo series for Channel 4 network's E4 channel in 2011, as the broadcaster invested an additional £5 million in its comedy budget following the cancellation of reality show Big Brother. Fielding said of the project, tentatively titled Noel Fielding: Boopus: "I want to make something in the spirit of Spike Milligan or the Kenny Everett Show but using modern techniques. Blending filmed comedy with animation. Television needs a madman! I want the show to be psychedelic and beautiful but have charm and personality. If Dalí made a show hopefully it would look like this." The show began broadcasting in January 2012, titled Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy. The show's second series, titled Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy 2: Tales From Painted Hawaii, was first broadcast on E4 in 2014.
Also in 2011, Fielding performed Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights" dance routine for Series 3 of Let's Dance for Comic Relief, and reached the grand final.
In 2010 and 2014, he took part in Channel 4's Comedy Gala, a benefit show held in aid of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.
In March 2017, it was revealed that Fielding would co-host the upcoming series of The Great British Bake Off alongside Sandi Toksvig.
Fielding appeared as a contestant on Series 4 of the Dave comedy panel game Taskmaster in 2017, hosted by Greg Davies and Alex Horne: he was the overall series winner.
In January 2018, he was a panellist on QI alongside Russell Brand and Aisling Bea.
In 2024, Fielding played Dick Turpin in an Apple TV+ comedy series, The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin.
According to Neil Gaiman's blog, Fielding was scheduled to appear in the 2007 film Stardust, but had to drop out due to ill health.
Radio
In November 2007, Fielding starred in five episodes of BBC Radio 2 show Vic Reeves' House Arrest as a local vagrant who knocks on Reeves' door once a week to ask for work.
Music
Fielding has appeared in several music videos, including Mint Royale's "Blue Song", alongside Julian Barratt, Nick Frost and Michael Smiley. The video was directed by Edgar Wright and served as the inspiration for the opening sequence of his film Baby Driver (2017). He also made a brief appearance in the video for Razorlight's "In the Morning". He appeared in music videos for the Robots in Disguise songs "Girl" (alongside Chris Corner who was, at the time, boyfriend to Sue Denim), "The Tears", and "Turn It Up". In 2009, Noel was involved in the Kasabian video "Vlad the Impaler", in which he plays the titular character, and reprised the role at the 2014 Glastonbury Festival.
The music video was directed by Richard Ayoade. He was referenced in Kasabian's "La Fée Verte", a track on their Velociraptor! album (his friend Sergio Pizzorno said "The line, 'I met Dalí in the street.' Dalí is Noel Fielding. And he is the modern-day Dalí"). Fielding also makes a brief appearance as Vlad in the video for another Kasabian song, "Re-Wired", riding a five-seater bicycle with the band, and appears as a patient in a psychiatric hospital in "You're In Love With a Psycho", in which he re-enacts the broken mirror routine from the Marx Brothers film Duck Soup with Pizzorno and Tom Meighan. He has also appeared in Kate Bush's music video "Deeper Understanding" as a means of thanks for the Let's Dance For Comic Relief performance.
Fielding paired up with Sergio Pizzorno (Kasabian) to form a band, Loose Tapestries, formed to provide music for Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy. Loose Tapestries released two albums and a Christmas single.
Art
Fielding has exhibited his paintings in London. He held his first exhibition of his paintings, entitled Psychedelic Dreams of the Jelly Fox, in a gallery above the patisserie Maison Bertaux, in Greek Street, Soho in December 2007. There Fielding listed some of his inspirations as Henri Rousseau, René Magritte, Willem de Kooning, Roy Lichtenstein, Dexter Dalwood, a former tutor of his from the Croydon School of Art and Fielding has also cited Salvador Dalí as an inspiration. A second exhibition of his paintings entitled Bryan Ferry vs the Jelly Fox also took place at Maison Bertaux, from 5 July 2010 through to 5 January 2011.
In October 2011, Fielding released an art book called Scribblings of a Madcap Shambleton, which he produced along with The Mighty Boosh cast member Dave Brown. It features many of his old and new paintings, drawings and photography.
Fielding's video installation of The Jelly Fox was shown at the Saatchi Gallery, and in 2012 he created a unique piece inspired by The Beatles for Liverpool Love at the Museum of Liverpool. In March 2015, his exhibition He Wore Dreams Around Unkind Faces was shown at the Royal Albert Hall.
In January 2021, the luxury fashion house Fendi unveiled a collection featuring abstract takes on the brand's logo, created by Fielding.
Recognition and honours
On 6 September 2011, Fielding received an honorary master's degree from his alma mater, now called Buckinghamshire New University, for his ongoing interest in the graphics area and support for many art organisations.
In 2015, Fielding was named one of GQ magazine's 50 best-dressed British men.
Personal life
Fielding was formerly in a relationship with Robots in Disguise lead vocalist Dee Plume, who made minor appearances in The Mighty Boosh and in its live adaptations.
He began dating radio DJ Lliana Bird sometime around 2010. Their first child, a daughter named Dali (after artist Salvador Dalí), was born in 2018. They were living in the Highgate area of London at the time. The couple's second daughter, Iggy (after Iggy Pop), was born in 2020.
During his time at art college, Fielding developed suspected hepatitis. Nigel Coan, who studied the same course as Fielding at art college and also shared a flat with him during this time, helped Fielding during this period. Fielding was ill and exhausted for a year, and was unable to consume alcohol for five years afterwards.
Filmography
Film
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1999 | Plunkett & Macleane | Brothel Gent | |
2001 | Sweet | Pete Sweet | Short |
2009 | Bunny and the Bull | Javier | |
2010 | Come on Eileen | Rex | |
2011 | Horrid Henry: The Movie | Ed Banger | |
2015 | Aaaaaaaah! | Carl | |
Set the Thames on Fire | Dickie | ||
2016 | Brakes | Daniel | |
The Wonderful World of Death | Jones | ||
2018 | The Festival | Hammerhead | |
2019 | The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part | Balthazar | Voice |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1997–1998 | Gas | Himself | Episodes: Series 1 (8), Series 2 (2, 4, 6) |
1998 | Unnatural Acts | Various | |
Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round | Various | Episode #1.2 | |
1999 | Comedy Cafe | Himself | Episode #1.7 |
2000 | The Big Schmooze | Himself – Arctic Boosh | Episode #1.4 |
2002 | Surrealissimo: The Scandalous Success of Salvador Dali | Bauer | TV movie |
Brain Candy | Himself | TV movie | |
2003 | Melbourne International Comedy Festival Gala | Himself | TV movie |
2004 | The British Comedy Awards 2004 | Himself | TV special |
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace | Monkey Man | ||
AD/BC: A Rock Opera | Shepherd | TV movie | |
2004–2007 | The Mighty Boosh | Vince Noir / Various | |
2005 | Nathan Barley | Jones | |
28 Acts in 28 Minutes | Himself | TV special | |
Breakfast | Himself | ||
2006 | The Secret Policeman's Ball | Himself / Vince Noir | |
The British Comedy Awards 2006 Live | Himself | TV special | |
2006–2008 | Friday Night with Jonathan Ross | Himself | Three Episodes |
2006–2013 | The IT Crowd | Richmond | |
2006–2019 | The Big Fat Quiz of the Year | Himself | Annual TV Special – Seven episodes |
2007 | Dawn French's Boys Who Do Comedy | Himself | Episodes #1, #2, #3 |
Comic Relief 2007: The Big One | Himself / Various | TV special | |
Deadline | Himself | Episode #1.2 | |
The Charlotte Church Show | Himself | Episode #2.2 | |
Never Mind the Buzzcocks | Himself | Guest panellist, 3 episodes | |
2008 | Shooting Stars: The Inside Story | Himself | TV movie |
2009 | Shockwaves NME Awards 2009 | Himself | TV special |
Comic Relief 2009 | Himself | TV special | |
Comic-Con '09 Live | Himself | TV movie | |
Shooting Stars | Himself | Episode #6.5 | |
2009–2010 | Late Night with Jimmy Fallon | Himself | Two Episodes |
2009–2014 | Alan Carr: Chatty Man | Himself | Two Episodes |
2009–2015 | Never Mind the Buzzcocks | Himself | Team Captain |
2010 | How Not to Live Your Life | Marcus | Episode "Don's New Job" |
Shockwaves NME Awards 2010 | Himself | TV special | |
Teenage Cancer Trust Concerts 2010 | Himself | TV movie | |
Channel 4's Comedy Gala | Himself | TV special | |
Just for Laughs | Himself | Episode "Cheech & Chong" | |
Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow | Himself | Episode "Bristol" | |
2011 | Let's Dance for Sport Relief | Himself | Two Episodes |
24 Hour Panel People | Himself | Episode #1.5 | |
Dynamo: Magician Impossible | Himself | Episode "England" | |
Horrid Henry's Movie Mayhem | Himself | TV movie | |
Catherine Tate: Laughing at the Noughties | Himself | TV movie | |
The Rob Brydon Show | Himself | Episode #2.8 | |
2012 | The Jonathan Ross Show | Himself | Episode #2.3 |
The Secret Policeman's Ball | Himself | TV special | |
Perspectives | Himself | Episode "John Sergeant: Sergeant on Spike" | |
The Project | Himself | ||
The Big Fat Quiz of the Decade | Himself | TV Special | |
2012–2014 | Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy | Himself / Various | |
2013 | Doll & Em | Noel | Episode "Six" |
Brand X with Russell Brand | Himself | Episode #2.1 | |
Gadget Man | Himself | Episode "Summer Holiday" | |
Staying in with Greg and Russell | Himself | ||
2013–2018 | QI | Himself | Eight episodes |
2014 | Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled | Himself | Episode "Cupped by a Shammy Hand" |
The Last Leg | Himself | Episode #5.2 | |
2015 | The Big Fat Anniversary Quiz | Himself | TV special |
Backchat | Himself | Episode #2.2 | |
Live at the Apollo | Himself | Episode #11.3 | |
2016 | Trailer Park Boys: Out of the Park | Lord Pumpwhistle / Himself | Episode "Europe – London" |
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Himself | ||
The Entire Universe | Einstein | TV movie | |
Travel Man | Himself | Episode "48 Hours in Copenhagen" | |
Conan | Himself | ||
Room 101 | Himself | ||
@midnight | Himself | ||
2016–2017 | The Big Fat Quiz of Everything | Himself | Four Episodes |
2017 | Taskmaster | Himself | Series Four, Champion of Champions (special) |
8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown | Himself | Episode #12.1 | |
The One Show | Himself | ||
Upstart Crow | Thomas Morley | Episode #2.4 "Food of Love" | |
2017–present | The Great British Bake Off | Co-presenter | Alongside Alison Hammond (2023–present) and formerly Matt Lucas (2020–2022) and Sandi Toksvig (2017–2020), replacing Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins |
2018 | Urban Myths | Alice Cooper | Episode "The Dali and the Cooper" |
2018–2023 | Disenchantment | Stan the Executioner | Voice |
2019 | Twelve Forever | Guy Pleasant | Voice |
2020 | Close Enough | Snail | Voice |
2021–present | Never Mind the Buzzcocks | Himself | Team Captain |
2024 | The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin | Dick Turpin | Main role. TV series |
2024–present | Word Race | Himself |
Music videos
Year | Artist | Song Title | Notes |
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2000 | Midfield General | "Midfielding" | |
2003 | Mint Royale | "Blue Song" | |
2006 | Razorlight | "In the Morning" | |
2007 | Robots in Disguise | "Girl" | |
2008 | Robots in Disguise | "The Tears" | |
2009 | Kasabian | "Vlad the Impaler" | Played the titular character |
2011 | Kate Bush | "Deeper Understanding" | Played a computer junkie |
Kasabian | "Re-Wired" | Played the aforementioned Vlad the Impaler. | |
2016 | The Claypool Lennon Delirium | "Bubbles Burst" | |
2017 | Kasabian | "You're in Love with a Psycho" |
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