Is it just me or is Mighty Boosh shite?

My son has been bugging me for a long time to watch The Mighty Boosh which he assures me is the funniest thing that's been on television in years. I've been aware of it for quite some time but until this evening I've never actually watched it.
So tonight I gave in and promised to sit through an entire episode and reserve my judgement until the programme had ended.

Suffice to say that's half an hour of my life I'll never get back. In all honesty, it was the one of the worst so called comedies I've ever encountered. It was like watching a school play in which the kids have forgotten their lines and resorted to pulling faces and shoving each other. In the end I actually started to feel sorry for them.

When it ended, my son looked at me with a "Well, what did you think?" look on his face. I was about to tell him exactly what I thought but before I could begin my tirade, I remembered something that happened 26 years ago.

I had managed to coax my dad into watching an episode of 'The Young Ones' and to give him his due, he did sit through at least half of it before he declared it a waste of license payer's money and called me a 'fucking weirdo' for watching 'that shite'.

So is it just me getting old and slowly turning into my dad who died last year or is Mighty Boosh just not funny?

Hmm... I've never seen The Mighty Boosh...
my friends go on about it a lot so...
maybe both?

Eels!

You may not like The Boosh, but your new avatar rocks, Fatty!

( ^ I was JUST listening to Eels. xD )

I think the Boosh is terrific and I'm always in stitches when I watch it, but it's kind of an acquired taste. Which episode were you forced to watch? :P

*pulls up a chair and awaits Freya's arrival on this thread*

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]JoxerTheDeityPirate wrote: [/QUOTENAME]*pulls up a chair and awaits Freya's arrival on this thread*[/QUOTE]

I'll get the popcorn, u want salty or sweet?

First time I watched The Mighty Boosh, I fell asleep to be honest.... =/

The Young Ones - funny

Mighty Boosh - shite

Fatty - much funnier

I tried watching some of it on YouTube once. I don't think I lasted any longer than 5 minutes. But what does fatty know, anyway? He doesn't even like Jack Black. ;-)

You're turning into your dad.

It's inevitable.

I wouldn't be surprised if your dad sat his dad down to listen to a record of that Elvis Presley bloke and your Grandpa was disgusted.

I'd be interested to know what series the episode you watched was from.

The third series is shite.

The first series is what made me fall in love with it. Then it went a bit downhill and I now pretend that series 3 never happened (there is so much wrong with it, I won't even go there, or I'll start going off on one.)

I still love The Boosh though. (I don't have much choice, I bought loads of tickets last year to go and see them live and the tours just started, so I need to at least pretend to be enthusiastic.)

They're actually better live than the TV episodes, which is good. They had me in stitches at one of their warm up gigs. They're both fantastic comedians, but they're trying too hard now and it's become a bit "Meh"

But still, I love 'em.

Also, whenever I remember how rubbish The Boosh has become, I just think of this bit - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcVv7KddJ4o

And I am reminded of why I originally liked them.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]David Jones wrote: [/QUOTENAME]The Young Ones - funny

Mighty Boosh - shite

Fatty - much funnier [/QUOTE]

I agree. Mighty Boosh and Little Britain are two "comedy" programs I just dont get.

The first series of Little Britain was funny, but then they run out of ideas and it went completely to pot, they were flogging a dead horse.

I like my comedy random to a point, I'm a big fan of Reeves & Mortimer but sometimes the Boosh just seem to be random for random's sake so all the little student emo's can go "Oh, its so random!"

The League of Gentlemen falls into the same category.

The Boosh really isn't random at all. It's only idiots that would call it random.

Barely anything's random. I hate the overuse of the word.

And Little Britain is most certainly rubbish. Except the Scottish guy in the first series.

[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Freya is quietly judging you. wrote: [/QUOTENAME] I hate the overuse of the word. [/QUOTE]
Absolutely seconded.