The Mighty Boosh: Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt reuniting for new project
The reunion was inspired by Barratt's children enjoying the BBC series
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Your support makes all the difference.Earlier this year, Noel Fielding revealed he was writing with Julian Barratt once more, sparking off rumours The Mighty Boosh could be back.
While promoting his latest TV show, the Channel 4 comedy Flowers, Barratt revealed that a new project with Fielding is definitely happening.
“We’re talking about doing something else together now… something with a longer arc really,” he told Radio Times.
Barratt explained that the long hiatus was partly down to becoming a father, adding that the reunion was thanks to his twin boys’ enjoyment of the show.
"I decided to show them [The Mighty Boosh]. They were really enjoying it and I was enjoying it. And I was going, 'Yeah, this is really good.’
"Well I knew it was good, but I sort of didn’t know why it was good, in a way. So I was talking to Noel about that. I’d really like to do some more stuff with this. And there seems to be people wanting us to do that, so that’s what that was.
“We always have good chemistry when we get back together. It’s like [Noel’s] a brother, basically. So you may have times when you fall out but he’s always there.”
The pair last appeared together in the UK as The Mighty Boosh Band at London Soho Theatre in 2013, going on to play at Tenacious D’s Festival Supreme in California.
Since the last televised show in 2007, Barratt has starred in various other projects, including more niche films and a role in BBC Three’s Being Human.
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Meanwhile, Fielding hosted his own Boosh-esque show, Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy, which ran for two series. The comedian previously said there are no plans to do a third series as yet.
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