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• OMG How Come No One Told Us Adult Swim Is Airing "The Mighty Boosh"???

  Flake out on the last couple Look Around You's and look what you miss. Adult Swim is airing The Mighty Boosh! And it's Season Three even! The season we haven't seen yet! The season we haven't broken down and ordered from Amazon.co.uk yet! Oh frabjous day! OK, so, if you don't know what The Mighty Boosh is, well, basically, it's Flight of the Conchords as a kids show but on some sort of DMT/E cocktail. And it's great. As comedy, we confess, it's not always consistently funny -- but as a dedicated effort by two grown men to act like they're part Banana Splits, part 70's rock gods, well, it is unparalled in its giddy, goofy delights. The first episode got aired last week. We had no idea. (Look, we were on a plane at the time, couldn't be helped.) But now we know: Monday's at 1AM (which for some of you probably means "Sunday night," just so we're clear.) And here's the episode we missed, "Eels": part one up top, parts two and three after the jump. Read More... Posted Apr 06 2009, 12:57 PM by Bryan Christian with | with no comments Filed under: The Mighty Boosh, Adult Swim, Look Around You, Ecstasy, DMT

• IFC To Bring "The IT Crowd" Stateside This September

  Channel 4/teh Interwebs hit The IT Crowd, starring Remote Island comedy crush Richard Ayoade, will joining the IFC Channel's lineup starting September 29. We're not actually the biggest fans of the show, which is basically Spaced crossed with the American Office crossed with one hell of an obnoxious laugh track, but it's worth checking out for the cast alone, which besides Ayoade is littered with tons of funny people from The Mighty Boosh, The Day Today, Garth Marenghi, and a few other better, weirder shows. (And if you're a fan of Father Ted, it's from the same guy.) Click through for one of our favorite clips from the show, featuring Day Today/Jam mastermind Chris Morris in a crisply megalomaniacal role. Read More... Posted Aug 19 2008, 11:01 AM by Bryan Christian with | with no comments Filed under: The Office, The Mighty Boosh, Channel Four, Richard Ayoade, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Spaced, Father Ted, The Day Today, Chris Morris, The IT Crowd, Jam

• "Mighty Boosh" And "Garth Marenghi" Star Richard Ayoade Directs New Vampire Weekend Video

  Richard Ayoade, the tall, skinny, big haired, boom-voiced Nigerian-Norwegian halfie comedy genius who's contributed to The Mighty Boosh, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, and AD/BC: A Rock Opera over on the BBC -- and who was slated to reprise his role in the ill fated American version of The IT Crowd -- has directed a video for Vampire Weekend, that well-hyped but honestly pretty good band who people say sound like Paul Simon in the 80's but really everyone knows that they mostly sound like a fun version of the early Police but no one wants to admit it because Sting is so fucking lame. Hmm... longest sentence ever on this blog? Yeah... at some point we just starting rolling with it. SCORE! Anyway, that's not the video up top. Actually, the MTV embed for the video -- which is to their charming ditty "Oxford Comma" --  isn't working, so if you wanna watch that, go to the The Sound of Young America, which is where we got it in the first place. We're "meh" on the clip. If we wanted half-baked Wes Anderson leftovers, we'd subject ourselves to The Darjeeling Limited again, thanks very much. But it gives us an excuse to link to some music on the blog, which is a nice change of pace, and to namecheck Mr. Ayoade, who -- no fooling -- we love in just about everything we see him in. Click through for a full episode of Ayoade's show Man to Man with Dean Learner, a sequel of sorts to Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. Read More... Posted Jun 24 2008, 01:21 PM by Bryan Christian with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: BBC, The Mighty Boosh, The Police, Richard Ayoade, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, AD/BC: A Rock Opera, The Darjeeling Limited, Wes Anderson, britcoms, Vampire Weekend

• BBC1 Soon Available The Internet (If You Live In The UK)

  The good news: starting by the end of the year, BBC1 -- the flagship of British Broadcasting and home to many shows that wind up in the states in one form or another -- will be broadcasting in analog over the Internet. The bad news: you can only watch it if you're in the UK. Guess all y'all Doctor Who fans will still be waiting on BBC America to get you your fix. We know: there are probably some of you crafty web types who are thinking you can get around this. If you succeed, let us know. Seriously; we tried for weeks to get around similar restrictions on the web broadcast of the third series of BBC3's The Mighty Boosh and got nowhere. (UPDATED: Hey look, Scanner Nicole just posted a clip from Boosh S3 -- coincidence???) [Daily Mail via Gizmodo]  Posted Jun 06 2008, 12:44 PM by Bryan Christian with | with no comments Filed under: BBC, The Mighty Boosh, Doctor Who, Scanner Nicole