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92-628: As in the British series, Matt Lucas and David Walliams play most of the characters: originals such as Lou and Andy , Daffyd Thomas , Sebastian Love , Emily Howard , Marjorie Dawes and Vicky Pollard , as well as new characters not previously seen in the British series. The series is narrated by Tom Baker , the narrator from the entirety of the original British series. The first series started filming in March 2008 in Wilmington, North Carolina . HBO showed

184-491: A 'portly Thai bride' called Ting Tong." This was prompted after Netflix and BBC iPlayer removed the show from their catalogues. Lucas is a patron of the Karen Morris Memorial Trust, a UK charity for leukaemia patients and their families. In April 2003, he appeared on Celebrity Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and won £62,500 for the charity. Lucas is gay. He first suspected his sexuality at age seven. At

276-401: A BBC Three interview aired on February 9, 2011, it was revealed that the creators had considered including Carol Beer, the travel agent character from Little Britain. However, they chose not to include her to avoid the impression that Come Fly with Me was just a spinoff. Instead, they introduced an entirely fresh cast of characters. On 28 March 2012, Lucas appeared as the "Generation X" guest on

368-517: 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

460-428: A brief case and not tell anyone. But then I sought of thought maybe I should do stand up." 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. On his time as an art student Fielding has commented "I did a foundation course at Croydon Art College in fine art. It was actually my teacher, Dextor Dalwood, who

552-918: A car at the age of 6. When Lucas was 22, his father died of a heart attack. Lucas was educated at Aylward Primary School and Haberdashers' Boys' School in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire . He studied drama at the University of Bristol between 1992 and 1995, although he did not complete his degree. He also spent time with the National Youth Theatre , where he met his future collaborator David Walliams . Lucas's association with Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer began in 1992. He appeared in The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer in 1995, and went on to star with them in Shooting Stars . He quickly rose to fame as George Dawes,

644-619: A ceremony in Central London in December 2006, he entered into a civil partnership with Kevin McGee. In attendance were Barbara Windsor , Neil Tennant , Elton John , and Courtney Love . They separated and had their civil partnership dissolved through the High Court in 2008. Lucas was raised as Jewish but has variously described himself as an atheist and a "fairly secular Jew ". In 2022, he

736-725: 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'." 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

828-685: A fictional series of awards based on nominations by his guests. On 3 October 2010, Lucas played Thénardier in the 25th Anniversary Concerts of Les Misérables , at the O2 Arena in London. A year later, from 23 June to 10 September 2011, he reprised the role at the Queen's Theatre , in the West End. He has since collaborated with Alfie Boe , who played Jean Valjean , to record a duet of "The Impossible Dream" on Boe's debut album. Also in 2011, Lucas lent his voice to

920-436: A film was something he talked about writing with Barratt 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

1012-519: 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. On 6 September 2011, Fielding received an honorary master's degree from Buckinghamshire New University for his ongoing interest in

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1104-536: A giant baby (often dressed in an adult-sized romper suit ) who would deliver a string of meaningless gags and insults before delivering the teams' scores, while sitting at and playing a drum kit. He also appeared on occasion as Marjorie Dawes , George's mother, who also appears in Little Britain . He again appeared with Reeves & Mortimer in the BBC TV series Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) and Catterick , in

1196-510: A gig at Hen and Chickens...". Dave Brown 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

1288-478: A live run through of a Mighty Boosh pilot Richard Ayoade played adventurer Dixon Bainbridge , but Matt Berry replaced him in the first television series, since Ayoade was under contract with Channel 4 . The Mighty Boosh won the Shockwaves NME Best TV Award three times in 2007, 2008 and 2010. The name "Mighty Boosh" was originally a phrase used by a friend of Michael Fielding's to describe

1380-665: A lot of respect for, saying "My grandma is really strong. I like strong women. That's what I respond to." 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. 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 as well as his stepmother both appeared in

1472-506: A magic forest..." In 2001 The Mighty Boosh became a six-part radio show on BBC London Live, later transferring to BBC radio 4 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...". Barratt and Fielding have also commented on

1564-650: 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 , and released two albums and a Christmas single. 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 ,

1656-489: A mixed response from critics, garnering a 60% approval rating on review aggregator website Metacritic . Mirror wrote: "The sad truth is Little Britain 's mix of Monty Python , Kenny Everett , and Dick Emery has run its course. One-joke characters like Lou and Andy and Carol 'computer says no' Beer are being flogged to death. Walliams and Lucas have spent so much time deciding which frocks to wear, they've forgotten to write any gags. And their desperation to be outrageous

1748-640: A ping-pong ball to make an eye patch. Fielding has commented on their shared interest in music that "I was sort of a bit more rock n roll and pop and he [Julian Barratt] was a bit more jazz but then we sort of met in the middle with electro... but Julian was... I think he left university to join a band, we were both in bands before we were in the Boosh, so we sort of came from that background. Lot of our friends were in bands." It has also been commented that Barratt "...had dropped out of an American studies course at Reading University" and Barratt has also commented that when he

1840-724: A public information campaign on digital switchover . On 26 November 2006 he appeared on the BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs . He made a cameo appearance in Shaun of the Dead as Tom, the cousin of Shaun's friend Yvonne. In 2007, he released " I'm Gonna Be ", originally by The Proclaimers , with Peter Kay as a charity single for Comic Relief . He performed the single as Little Britain character Andy Pipkin , along with Kay playing as Brian Potter . He also starred as Mr. Toad in The Wind in

1932-449: A radio show, we did a TV show, we never quite got around to doing a film..." In 2008 it was also commented that "A film is the first thing we ever wanted to do, so we've always come up with ideas and stuck them in a drawer." and in 2014 it was commented that "The pair have written two film scripts in the past, though neither made it to production. One was a "Rocky Horror Picture Show type thing", according to Fielding, in which Barratt played

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2024-469: A role in Boy George 's musical Taboo at The Venue in London. He played the performance artist Leigh Bowery . Little Britain is Lucas' most commercially successful work. The show came about when trainee BBC radio producer Ashley Blaker , tasked with coming up with ideas for a television or radio series, bumped into Lucas in London. The two were old friends from Haberdashers' and Lucas took Blaker to

2116-399: A second season, but plan to work with Lucas and Walliams on other projects instead. In Matt Lucas's autobiography, he wrote that HBO wanted to relaunch the show but first they wanted a ninety-minute special. Lucas and Walliams were reluctant to do ninety minutes of solid sketches and a counter-offer of doing two forty-five minute specials was turned down by the network. The show has received

2208-617: A small role in Country House by Blur Noel Fielding Noel Fielding ( / ˈ n ə ʊ ə l / ; born 21 May 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 Julian Barratt when they both appeared on

2300-452: 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." 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 with there being 20 episodes created over three series. In each series

2392-738: 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. 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. In 2007, it

2484-674: A variety of roles. In 1999, Lucas paired with David Walliams , with whom he had already worked in Mash and Peas and Sir Bernard's Stately Homes , to create Rock Profile , a comedy show spoofing famous musical personalities. It is notable for being one of their first comedic collaborations. His music video appearances include the Damien Hirst -directed video for Blur 's " Country House ", "Jesusland" by Ben Folds in 2005, " I'm with Stupid " by Pet Shop Boys , and " Vindaloo " by Fat Les . Lucas ventured into stage musicals in 2002, when he took

2576-432: 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... ." Fielding has further commented about the Mighty Boosh that "It was crazy cos we were just going.... ...it

2668-407: A weird shambles of stuff." Fielding commented in 2015 that whilst creating Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy that "Originally I used to do all the paintings for the animations. This meant that I was filming in the day and staying up until 5 am painting. After three weeks of this I started to feel unusual so Ivana Zorn, who is Nigel Coan's partner, now does a majority of the painting and I just design

2760-598: Is great' we weren't ever sort of planning it. Like... ..we didn't even know if we could make a living from it." 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

2852-514: Is now just shockingly tedious." Matt Lucas Matthew Richard Lucas (born 5 March 1974) is an English actor and comedian. He is best known for his work with David Walliams on the BBC sketch comedy series Little Britain (2003–2006) and Come Fly with Me (2010–2011). Lucas first came to prominence on the comedy panel show Shooting Stars , in which he portrayed scorekeeper George Dawes from 1995 to 2009. From 2015 to 2017, he portrayed

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2944-546: 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. Fielding has also exhibited his paintings in London and collaborated with Fendi for their autumn/winter 2021 menswear collection. Fielding along with Sergio Pizzorno from the band Kasabian formed the band Loose Tapestries as an alternative music project that

3036-558: The Groucho Club , where he told Blaker of his ideas for a sketch show. Little Britain was launched as a radio show on BBC Radio 4 and it later became a TV series. Among the many characters he plays in the series, which he writes and acts in along with David Walliams, are apparently "disabled" Andy Pipkin , teenage Bristol chav Vicky Pollard , homophobic homosexual Daffyd Thomas , and insensitive slimming club organiser Marjorie Dawes . In January 2005, Lucas and Walliams were named

3128-583: 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

3220-584: The Mighty Boosh TV show with his father Ray Fielding having several cameos as Chris de Burgh. Julian Barrat's father also made an appearance in the first series of the Mighty Boosh TV show and both his parents appeared in the second series. Julian Barratt has described Fielding's upbringing as "feral" with Fielding also commenting that "I was like a feral child. I was like 'I'm not eating dinner.' 'Yeah whatever cook your own at midnight.' 'Mum it's midnight should i go to bed?' 'Wa, whatever you want to do.' It

3312-587: The most powerful people in TV comedy by Radio Times . In 2005, he took his first role in a television drama, a supporting part as a Venetian duke in the BBC historical serial Casanova , written by Russell T Davies . Also in 2005, he did voice work in the ITV children's program King Arthur's Disasters alongside Rik Mayall . Since 2006, Lucas has been the voice of the radio and television character Digit Al , devised as part of

3404-401: The 2000s, Fielding also had smaller roles in a number of 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

3496-634: The Australian game show Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation . On 10 April 2012, Lucas's own BBC One show The Matt Lucas Awards began. It was a send-up of an awards program, with a panel of comedians giving their nominations for awards for a series of prizes concerning trivial topics. Lucas also starred in the dark comedy Small Apartments released in February 2013 alongside James Caan, Billy Crystal, Johnny Knoxville, and Juno Temple with other cameo performances by notable actors. On 21 February 2013, Lucas appeared on

3588-519: The BBC and they'd go: 'Great, we'll put these on telly.' But I gradually realised that you either had to go to university and join a club, or do standup. I ended up doing both. My first gigs were at university...". Fielding has further commented that "I used to write sketches and hide them, you know, ...like written sketches and stuff. I started writing sketches when I was like 12... ...I wanted to write for like Fry and Laurie or something like that, Fry and Laurie style sketches, and then hide them all away in

3680-641: The BBC series Doctor Who for its tenth series , reprising the character Nardole , which he had previously played in the 2015 and 2016 Christmas specials, " The Husbands of River Song " and " The Return of Doctor Mysterio " respectively. On 16 February 2017, Lucas was awarded an Honorary Degree "Doctor of Letters" by the University of Bristol, where he had studied for two years in the 1990s but had left before completing his degree course. On 3 October 2017, Lucas released his autobiography titled Little Me , published by Canongate Books in hardback. The paperback edition

3772-448: The CGI film Gnomeo and Juliet and he played a small role as the roommate of Kristen Wiig in the comedy Bridesmaids . On Christmas Day 2010, the BBC premiered Lucas and David Walliams' latest series, Come Fly with Me . Unlike their previous work, Little Britain , this new show concentrated solely on the airline industry, with Walliams and Lucas each portraying several characters. In

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3864-495: 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." with Barratt responding to Fielding "Speak for yourself, I

3956-512: The Mighty Boosh including the DVD cover art for the Mighty Boosh Live 2006 stage show. Brown also "...designed and compiled The Mighty Book of Boosh ..." as well as all the publishing output for the Mighty Boosh. It has been commented that Barratt "...composed all the music for The Mighty Boosh." with Barratt also commenting that "I write the music, eh, but we both sort of write, we both write

4048-470: The Mighty Boosh became a Television show The Mighty Boosh , which ran for three series on BBC Three from 2004 to 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

4140-680: The NBC series Community as Toby, an English friend of Abed Nadir . In 2014, Lucas played Ray Thomas in The Life of Rock with Brian Pern . Lucas launched a new comedy series called Pompidou for BBC Two . The show began airing on 1 March 2015. In May 2016, Lucas reprised his role as "Tweedledee/Tweedledum" in Tim Burton's Alice Through the Looking Glass , sequel to Alice in Wonderland. Lucas joined

4232-484: 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

4324-666: The Radio 2 Breakfast Show . From 10 August to 30 November 2019, Lucas appeared in Les Misérables at the Gielgud Theatre in London's West End, playing the role of Monsieur Thénardier in a fully staged concert adaptation of the musical. On 20 December 2019, Lucas returned to the role at the Sondheim Theatre , after actor Gerard Carey contracted vocal damage through pneumonia and was forced to pull out. On 10 January 2020, Lucas himself

4416-702: The Willows , a 2006 television adaptation of the Kenneth Grahame novel. He has appeared in Kath & Kim and Neighbours (the latter alongside David Walliams as Little Britain characters Lou and Andy ), as well as a cameo role, playing 'Chris' or 'Jammy' at the wedding fayre, in the BBC Three sitcom Gavin & Stacey . Lucas has co-written (with Walliams) and performed in a new series of Little Britain USA for HBO . Lucas

4508-469: 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. Barratt and Fielding have commented on the beginning of the Mighty Boosh, with Barratt commenting that "We performed together for

4600-420: The bodies of their sleeping friends en route to breakfast." Fielding has also commented on interests he had when he was younger "Growing up I was quite funny, like a cheeky scamp. But I had no interest in being funny. I wanted to be an artist. When our teacher left, she wrote a poem about all her students and she said, 'Noel is really funny and can make the class laugh.' And then she said that my best friend Paul

4692-569: 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

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4784-498: 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 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

4876-562: The first episode of the season in the United States on September 28, 2008; The Movie Network broadcast it in Canada the same day, followed by BBC One on October 3 in the UK. New guest-stars include Rosie O'Donnell , Rachael Harris , Bob Stephenson , Paul Rudd (as the President of France ), Hilarie Burton , Vivica A. Fox , and Sting . Michael Patrick Jann served as executive producer of

4968-511: The first time in... ... was it in that show by Stuart Lee?", with Fielding replying "yeah, Stuart Lees show, Moby Dick and King Dong (At the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 1997)... ...Julian played King Dong's penis...", with Barratt replying "...an enormous penis...", and then with Fielding replying "...a perfect King Dong... ...then we thought lets do a show together." Sometime around 1998 they then put on their first comedy show and it

5060-466: The graphics area and support for many art organisations. 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

5152-528: 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 . 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

5244-547: The lyrics, and we, I do the music mostly..." with Fielding replying to Barratt that "I have a go at the melodies then he goes away and makes it..." and then with Barratt replying "...tweaks, tweaks it a bit". Fielding also made drawings that formed a basis for the characters costumes and make-up in the Mighty boosh TV show. Regular Boosh collaborators include Michael Fielding , Rich Fulcher , Dave Brown , Nigel Coan , Richard Ayoade , Matt Berry and Ivanna Zorn. In 2002 during

5336-509: The main characters. Nigel animates everything like a futuristic goose." 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

5428-537: 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 "[we spoke to them]...before we'd done

5520-429: The rest of it, it would just be improv and mucking about. Then they took the, um, took The Mighty Boosh up to Edinburgh and then two more shows Arctic Boosh (1999) , Autoboosh (2000) ...". 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 have commented on their time at

5612-424: The role of Nardole in the BBC series Doctor Who . He has also appeared in films, including Astro Boy (2009), Alice in Wonderland (2010), Bridesmaids , Gnomeo & Juliet (both 2011), Small Apartments (2012), Paddington (2014), and Wonka (2023). Lucas presented the baking competition show The Great British Bake Off , alongside Noel Fielding from 2020 to 2023. Matthew Richard Lucas

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5704-485: 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 and returned again 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,

5796-617: The same comedy bill at a pub in north London. 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... [Barratt was like] '...Let's write together'. I've been stuck with him ever since and that was about eight years ago or something." 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

5888-534: 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. Fielding began performing comedy while at university and he began performing stand up when he graduated in 1995. In 2013 he commented "I went to art school and stuff and by

5980-529: The series and directed most of the shows. David Schwimmer directed studio-based segments of the show. Rosie O'Donnell also makes an appearance in a "Fat Fighters" segment. The series was released on DVD in the United Kingdom by 2entertain on 24 November 2008. On November 27, 2008 on GMTV Matt Lucas announced plans for another season to air in 2009, but in July 2009, HBO announced the show would not return for

6072-471: 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. In 2006 Fielding and Barratt went on tour with a new theatre show The Mighty Boosh Live . 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

6164-721: The show and Fielding became one of the regular team captains. Between 2006 to 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 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

6256-586: 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 ,

6348-499: 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 [Julian Barratt] 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." In 1997 he first met Mighty Boosh collaborator Julian Barratt when they both appeared on

6440-426: The time. They just let me eat when I wanted. I didn't have to eat at the table." and further that "I think they had a lot of parties when i was a kid.... ...I remember my mum and dad having parties where you know someone would turn up and bring the taxi driver in and he would stay for two days.... ...on the sofa." It was also commented that "...they would party through the night and he [Fielding] would have to step over

6532-560: The track going towards the Feed NHS campaign, which aims to provide meals for NHS workers in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK . The song reached No. 34 in the charts. Lucas also wrote a children's picture book based on "Thank You, Baked Potato", published by Egmont and all proceeds again go to Feed NHS. In 2020, Lucas, along with his Little Britain co-star David Walliams, apologised for their portrayal of characters using racial caricatures , "including an obese Caribbean woman called Desiree DeVere, portrayed in blackface , and

6624-581: 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

6716-430: Was 10 he was only 28, 29, so, thats mind blowing. When i was 20 he was only in his late 30s, he was my age now, so I've sort of had some brilliant years out of my mum and dad you know like, and also they were quite young and tolerant and easy going and up for doing stuff." When Fielding was three years old, his father remarried, and Fielding was mostly raised by his grandmother. He describes his grandmother as someone he had

6808-410: Was a good artist... ...When you're a kid the idea that you're funny means nothing to you. You're like 'What's that, what am I going to use that for?'... ...I wanted to be Picasso." At the age of 13 Fielding began writing comedy sketches and he has commented that "I started writing sketches when I was 13. I liked Vic Reeves, Fry and Laurie, and Paul Merton, and I thought you could just send sketches to

6900-585: Was born on 5 March 1974 in the Paddington area of west London , the son of Diana (née Williams; born 1945) and chauffeuring business owner John Stanley Lucas (1944–1996). His family is Jewish ; some of his mother's family fled Nazi Germany just before the Second World War . He was raised in a Reform Jewish household although his parents came from Orthodox Jewish families. He has had alopecia since childhood, having lost all his hair after being struck by

6992-481: 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 [didn't] 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

7084-510: 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

7176-451: 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

7268-486: Was forced to withdraw from the show following a back injury. In March 2020, he became the new co-host of the Channel 4 and Love Productions television show The Great British Bake Off , taking over from Sandi Toksvig . He departed from the programme in December 2022. On 3 April 2020, Lucas released a reworked version of his "Baked Potato Song" from Shooting Stars titled "Thank You Baked Potato", with all proceeds from

7360-590: Was formed in 2012 to provide music for the TV Show Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy . Fielding was born in the Westminster area of London on 21 May 1973, the son of Royal Mail manager Ray Fielding (born 1953) and Yvonne Fagan. He is of French descent through his grandmother. He grew up in Mitcham , Southwest London and on his upbringing Fielding commented in 2013 that "My dad was so young, you know when I

7452-461: 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." 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

7544-403: Was in a Sartre play at university I'll have you know. Huis Clos ." Fielding has commented further on their first live show, The Mighty Boosh , “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

7636-469: 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.” 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..." Fielding commented in 2015 that

7728-460: 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

7820-445: Was quite bohemian... ...I think with my brother they were like... '...we probably shouldn't let him cook his own dinner of mash potato on toast at four in the morning. He's like six.'... ...Yeah my mum 'n' dad were pretty liberal about stuff." Fielding has also commented that "My parents had lots of parties... ...They were hopelessly bohemian. ...They were just 18 when they had me... ...they let me stay up. They had their mates there all

7912-428: Was released on 7 June 2018. From 2 July to 25 August 2018, Lucas played Bill Snibson in a revival of Me and My Girl at Chichester Festival Theatre . In 2019, Lucas was the bank holiday cover host for the Radio 2 Breakfast Show. He will also cover Paul O'Grady 's Sunday 5–7pm show during the summer; Fearne Cotton will be the main holiday cover host. In 2021, Lucas continues to sit in for Zoe Ball and host

8004-431: Was scheduled to appear in the film Stardust , but had to drop out due to ill health. 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. Fielding has appeared in several music videos, including Mint Royale 's "Blue Song", alongside Julian Barratt , Nick Frost and Michael Smiley . The video

8096-732: Was seventeen "We went to stay with a friend of a friend's uncle but we came back after three days. We thought we'd make inroads into the jazz scene in London – we'd read biographies about guys who got gigs at Ronnie Scott's and got spotted and immediately taken into someone's band. So we told our parents we were leaving home. They gave us two days and we lasted three...". It has also been commented that "...both [Fielding and Barratt] had fathers who loved Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart, and who encouraged their sons to avoid getting proper jobs." They also found they both shared common interests in comedy including Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer. In 2010, Fielding

8188-572: 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

8280-631: Was the first celebrity to appear in 2008's Big Brother Celebrity Hijack on E4 . On 9 April 2009, the series Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire , featuring Lucas as a regular performer, premièred on Comedy Central , the first major comedy series which Lucas had worked on since Little Britain . In 2010, Lucas played Tweedledee and Tweedledum in Tim Burton 's Alice in Wonderland . Starting in February 2010, Lucas began hosting his own radio show, And The Winner Is , in which he handed out

8372-717: Was the one who told me I should go into comedy. I was 19 when I was studying there, I had quite a good time actually... ." Whilst studying at Croydon Art College Fielding met Mighty Boosh collaborator Dave Brown . Then 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. In 2011 Fielding received an honorary master's from Buckinghamshire College now known as Buckinghamshire New University . Whilst at Buckinghamshire College both Dave Brown and Nigel Coan were studying

8464-694: Was the subject of BBC's Who Do You Think You Are? and learned that many of his grandmother's cousins had been murdered in the Holocaust . His grandmother's cousin, Werner Goldschmidt, had lived with the family of diarist Anne Frank in Amsterdam in 1942. In 2021, 83 years after his grandmother left Berlin, Lucas obtained German citizenship . Lucas is an avid supporter of Arsenal Football Club . From 2012 to 2015, Lucas lived with his Bridesmaids co-star Rebel Wilson in West Hollywood . Lucas also has

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