‘Noel can usually spot a camera 500 yards away so it’s unusual to capture him unposed. And Rich Fulcher’s bellybutton was an essential part of his act – if it wasn’t out, the comedy wasn’t as good’
at Croydon art college, then we lived together when we were at Buckinghamshire College of Higher Education, along with Nigel Coan who went on to do all the Boosh animation. Noel and Julian Barratt did an improv night at the Hen and Chickens, in the lead-up to writing their first Edinburgh fringe show. In 1998, they won best newcomer at the city and subsequently brought the Boosh to radio and TV.
The first series was on late on BBC Three. I played various characters including an Australian zookeeper called Joey Moose, a monster called Black Frost, and a fireas part of a running gag. I’d do all the choreography and dance routines. The reviews for the first series were pretty poor, so we assumed no one was watching, but we decided to take it on tour anyway. All the while, I’d been doing graphic design and a bit of photography.
My forthcoming exhibition, Behind the Boosh 20, has been hard to curate because I pick shots from a photographic point of view, whereas fans want to see photos of their favourite characters and episodes. What’s funny is that most of the shots were taken while I was in a gorilla suit. In the first series, Bollo the gorilla was an expensive animatronic suit with a very expensive actor inside.
They got loads of prosthetics made. Then the makeup woman said “Monkeys don’t have eyebrows” and shaved mine off. Then Julian, Noel and the director, Paul King, said: “It’s not right. We’re going to use a mask instead.” So I asked the makeup woman: “Was that strictly necessary for a two-second test?” I had no eyebrows and my girlfriend wouldn’t even look at me.
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