Fielding the funnies with Noel Noel Fielding and his pals may hang out in a coffee shop in the new series of his E4 show Luxury Comedy, but it’s about as far removed from sitcoms like Friends as you can imagine. For starters, the funny man’s cafe is perched on the edge of a volcano in Hawaii, half the action comes in the form of animated cartoons, and his gang includes a reincarnated Andy Warhol and a part-man, part-anteater named Smooth. In episode one, we see the cast of Eighties Hawaiian-based TV show Magnum, P.I. out to get Fielding – because his coffee shop is built on sacred land, and the only man who can save the day is an internet sensation called Paul Panfer. Think that sounds wacky? The first series in 2012 was even more experimental, with, Fielding points out, “the emphasis on ‘mental’”. “We didn’t really want to get involved in a narrative [in series one], because I’d done that for Boosh. We just wanted to try lots of different stuff – different techniques and different characters,” says the star, who found fame as one half of surrealist double act The Mighty Boosh, alongside Julian Barratt. “It was quite Marmite. You either [...] sheffieldinnews/fielding-the-funnies-with-noel/
Posted on: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 05:31:21 +0000
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