Noel Fielding
Biography
Noel Fielding is one half of the award-winning duo The Boosh, who have written and starred in three critically acclaimed series of The Mighty Boosh for BBC3 and BBC2, they are currently working on a third. In they 2006 performed a sell-out National tour ending with a five night run at The Brixton Academy.
Noel has a hugely successful stand up career. In 2003 he won the Time Out Award for Outstanding Achievement in Comedy. He has performed at the prestigious Just For Laughs festival in Montreal and appeared twice at The Royal Albert Hall.
His first live solo show Voodoo Hedgehog was nominated for the Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Festival and has been performed at Her Majesty's Theatre in London's West end and The Melbourne Comedy Festival.
Noel's television work includes a part in Chris Morris' Nathan Barley and Garth Marenghi's Dark Place, both for Channel 4.
He has recently appeared as Team Captain on Never Mind the Buzzcocks and made appearances The Big Fat Quiz of the Year and The Charlotte Church Show.
What the press have said:
"Quite Exceptional"
The Times
"Hip, Childish, Sexy, Magical, oh yes, very funny too".
The Sunday Times
"Fielding, luminous and charmed, half-Bambi, half-gryphon, is impulsive, intuitive and wins out every time"
The Melbourne Age
"Strange and tantalising".
The Guardian
"Fielding effortlessly weaves a magic comical wand to transform the banal into the fantastic"
The Times
"The best British comic since Eddie Izzard"
Time Out
Edinburgh 2002 Press Quotes
"German expressionism meets Saturday Morning Television"
Edinburgh Evening News
"Brings a touch of glamour and sex appeal to a traditionally crumpled genre"
Mail on Sunday
"It's a truly impressive sight to watch"
Mail on Sunday
"The Next Big Thing of British Comedy – a solo show of unremitting, bewitching bizarreness"
The Daily Telegraph
"An act teetering on greatness"
Metro
"The funniest thing you'll see on the fringe"
Evening News
"Comic Gold"
The List
"His rolling rhetorical style is hypnotic"
Sunday Times
"Eddie Izzard's rightful heir"
Daily Telegraph
"Fielding's imagination is awe-inspiring and his star quality is unmatched this year"
The Times
"Voodoo Hedgehog is easily the most wacky, most awesomely brilliant Fringe spectacle you could expect to see outside of a dream"
The List