Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #75 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-02-13
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 4
• Running time: 408 minutes

DVD Description
Howard and Vince, two workers in a run-down zoo, are often called upon to put their jobs before their pride. That means dressing up as animals and sitting in cages because their boss, American entrepreneur Bob Fossil, can't afford any real animals. Vince accepts the situation happily, quite in contrast to his grandiose, tweed-wearing colleague. But their jobs involve much more than just dressing up. Their strange adventures in the Zooniverse and beyond include battling mutant animals engineered in a secret laboratory under the zoo, boxing kangaroos to raise money, encountering missing cheese-headed explorers and jazz-funk musicians with doors in their heads… and a visit to Monkey Hell.

Featuring animation, puppets, songs and quirky special effects, this is surreal British comedy at its best. Both TV series 1 and 2 are included.

Synopsis
Howard Moon and Vince Noir are two zookeepers at the Zooniverse. Here they encounter many strange adventures including boxing kangaroos, missing cheese-headed explorers, jazz-funk musicians with doors in their heads and a visit to Monkey Hell. Includes Series 2.

Customer Reviews

Can't compare it to anything else out there...
...because it is unique.
Hypnotic and dreamy, the episodes are more like a trance than tightly-structured compositions.

Well done to the guys, they have created a new genre!

Almost a comedy classic, but it sells out to 'trendy teens' and ends up overrated.
The show has a great selection of characters and and some great laughs, but it falls short of greatness by doing the awful 'trendy teen' comedy far too often whereby a few forced "random" things are strung together and given no real joke.
Now don't get me wrong there are some really really good jokes in here and it's needed a watch, but it's gotten into the habbit of relying on people to laugh at the things just because the characters say it, and not because it's funny.

So:
Funny?: Yes. Just not all the time.
Original?: To a point, but it gets old rather quickly.

(Highlights include the mirror world and old greg)

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If you liked this check out the far superior Darkplace.

Absolut Rubbish
The Mighty Boosh is not funny simply because it has to try so hard to be surreal that it is a wonder it does not implode under the strain. Now let me make this clear. My favorite comedies include the office, the IT crowd, Peep Show and of course Monty Python. I veer towards the absurd and stupid in my tastes and have just discovered Garth Marenghi's Dark Place, which is possibly the funniest show in the history of tv comedy as far as I am concerned. The Mighty Boosh is a complete laugh free zone. The closest thing I can compare it with is the Basil Brush show, the one shown in recent years on the BBC. The tone and humour are pretty much the same but with swearing. Mind you, Basil Brush is funnier. It must be because I laughed at it once but have watched the Boosh and not yet even raised a smile. In a word, pathetic. Noel Fielding is funny without the other bloke though.