Noel Fielding

Noel Fielding

Noel Fielding is a comedian and actor from the United Kingdom, born in 1973. He is associated with The Mighty Boosh and Loose Tapestries.

Career

Fielding is best known for playing Vince Noir in The Mighty Boosh, a series he co-writes with Julian Barratt. He also appears in the show as several other characters, including Tony Harrison, The Hitcher, Spider and Old Gregg. Fielding meets Barratt while performing at a gig, and the two develop a long-running partnership that they often compare to a marriage.

Before and alongside The Mighty Boosh, he performs regularly as a stand-up comedian in the late 1990s and appears several times on the BBC stand-up showcase Gas. His stand-up includes surreal stories, characters and songs, which also shape his work on television. He is also a co-originator of crimping.

Television and other appearances

Outside The Mighty Boosh, Fielding appears as Richmond in The IT Crowd, although he does not appear in series 3 because of a busy schedule. He also appears as a guest captain on Never Mind the Buzzcocks, standing in for Bill Bailey, and co-presents Top of the Pops on Red Nose Day 2009.

His other television credits include bit parts in Channel 4 comedy programmes such as Nathan Barley, AD/BC: A Rock Opera and Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, often alongside Julian Barratt. He also appears in the 1998 sketch show Unnatural Acts.

Music and related work

Fielding appears in several music videos, including Mint Royale’s Blue Song with Julian Barratt, Nick Frost and Michael Smiley, Razorlight’s In the Morning, and two videos for Robots In Disguise, Girl and The Tears. He also features in Kasabian’s Vlad The Impaler video as Vlad. In addition, he lends his voice to the Midfield General track Midfielding and sometimes plays bass live for Robots In Disguise.

He also DJs, including performances at The Barfly in London, either with members of The Mighty Boosh or with his DJ collective Team Disgusting, which includes six women and the Rev, formerly of Towers of London.

Character and style

Fielding’s work is marked by surreal humour and musical elements. In The Mighty Boosh, Vince Noir is presented as kind, naive and loyal, with an androgynous style that includes brightly coloured and printed jeans, heeled boots, a mirror-ball suit, faux-fur leopard-skin jackets, capes, sparkly accessories and clothes from Topshop. The character can talk to animals and is nicknamed “Mowgli in Flares”.