My friend Ollie showed me this video of Reeves and Mortimer spoofing Masterchef:
It is absolutely baffling and no doubt people will find it amazingly funny or it will leave them cold. It is the best example of the polarising power of surrealist comedy I have come across.
Personally I am not a massive fan of Ross Noble, the Boosh etc and this video rather sums up my own view.
I can see why other comedians (unsurreal? real?) might be put out that being random generates laughs in the same way their carefully constructed material does, but I suppose the flip side of this is it will miss its mark more often than a traditional joke.
And it’s better for “the comedy scene” that people are prepared to try more daring things. But it is possible to push the wacky too far at the expense of the funny.
Tags: Comedy, Masterchef, Mighty Boosh, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Reeves and Mortimer, Simon Amstell, surrealism, Vic and Bob
