The Mighty Boosh

THE MIGHTY BOOSH

I chose to analyse the Mighty boosh simply because i love it.its funny, its uptodate, the songs are -in my opinion- clever and incredibly catchy, and above all its as random as it can possibly get

This halarious comedy tv series by the BBC also icludes near enough everything postmodernism should be: very hyper concious - the sets and props don't hide the fact they're made out of cardboard or that the moon is a man with cream on his face, Eclectic there are identifiable references to other influences especially within their songs , which is similar to another post modern comedy show 'flight of the conchords', narcissisic everything vince and howard do are narcissistic just listen to their lines, a little nostalgic this refers to the eclectisim they celebrate past influences, it acts against modernism nothing within the show is predictable or conventional, includes parody again the eclectisim, very intertextual vince and Mick jagger, an active audience they are expecting that the audience will recognise their references to other texts.

Within Strinati's conventions of postmodernism, the mighty boosh includes:

The breakdown of the distiction between high art and popular culture: The two characters howard moon and vince noir represent the battle between high art and popular culture, howard enjoys jazz while vince likes the rolling stones, howard dresses more conventionally while vince dresses in feather boas track suits and crazy hats. This friendship between the two blurs the lines as the two can be very similar, and are constantly together. they defy class differences between high art and popular cuture and throw them under one roof.

The breakdown of the distiction between society and culture: The two characters are based upon the actors themselves.as the clip says 'howard and vince are probably 10% exaggeration when we first started to write we thought "ah well lets just be ourselves" (noel) was obsessed with clothes, stupid haircuts; julian was obsessed with jazz, nabokov, and playing hamlet.' we can never be sure while watching, how much is the actors and how much is character.

The decline of the meta narrative: nothing in the program, hints at following a meta narrative such as religion, marksism or anything of the sort. quite the opposite, the characters live by thier own passions such as jazz and Mick Jagger. creating a sense of hyper reality within the program as well as intertextuality.
Confusions over time and space: we are contantly loosing ourselves within the show, even at the begining we hear the narrator say 'come with us now on a journey through time and space' we have no idea when its set, and where howard and vince are on thier adventures.
Emphasis of style over substance: Vince is a character compleatly representative of style over substance, 'what are you bringing to the table vince?' 'well right off the batt i'd say style' he's constantly changing his surroundings or his dress to suit his style, with no consideration of substance or meaning. This is usually when howard becomes jealous and fails himself. the mightmere of milky joe is a classic example. The Mighty Boosh appears to commend style over substance.

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