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As he prepares to bring his latest creation, Eleanor, to the Edinburgh Comedy Festival, we caught up with surreal comedian Rich Fulcher…


Rich Fulcher is perhaps best known as a regular collaborator on The Mighty Boosh, first playing the hapless Bob Fossil in the first series, then taking on various roles throughout. Away from the Boosh, Fulcher has been playing on the live circuit for years, and is currently touring with his new show An Evening With Eleanor The Tour Whore.

We caught up with Rich to talk about his career so far.

So, Rich Fulcher, how's it going?

Fine, yeah good. Jet lagged. One word. At a time.

You've just flown in from LA. What had you done over there?

I was doing some Eleanor shows out there to get ready for London. Everything I've done is to prepare for these next few days.

Warming up in the States, do you find that audiences there are a good indicator of what to expect from a London crowd?

LA audiences are very strange. I don't know exactly what they're gonna laugh at. And I did it in an old silent movie theatre, which is a great venue.

Luckily, I invited some normal people 'cus a lot of times you get industry types who don't wanna laugh. They're afraid they'll embarrass themselves.

Being a transatlantic performer, do audiences in the US and UK laugh at the same parts or do they react differently?

When I start to go on surreal rants in the US, it throws them off a little bit, but then they go with it if they're into that sort of thing. Hopefully I get people that are, y'know, there's a lot of fans of the Boosh in the US who just don't know it. And so you put up a show and hope they come out of the woodwork.

Somebody came up to me after one of the LA shows and said "I love how you're bringing British sensibilities into the US" and I really didn't think of it that way, it's just sort of what I do.

Let's go right back to the start now. What made you decide to make people laugh for a living?

Oh this is tough. I mean, I always liked trying to make people laugh. When I was growing up, my dad was in the Air Force so you'd have to adjust whenever you moved somewhere or else get beaten up. I couldn't really fight very well so I tried to make people laugh. There are a lot of performers who are military brats, we move on average every two years so you need to create a little world to protect yourself from evil.

So, that was always with me, but I wanted to be a lawyer. When I went to law school I realised right away that I hated it, it was all about reading cases. So after I graduated I thought, "Now's the time to try something new." I could always go back to law, so I thought I would try this comedy thing..

I had done this talent show at law school, it was called Law Revue. Ah, clever! It wasn't like the ultimate moment but it was a nice segue. So, I signed up to these classes called Second City in Chicago, which is like a training ground for loads of people. They have Bill Murray, John Candy, John Belushi. George Wendt.

Norm from Cheers is quoted as saying Second City is like the Harvard of comedy. It was one of those things, I knew nothing about how to get started, but I did know about enrolling in classes, so I thought, "I wanna do that." And then I realised everyone wanted to do the same thing, wanted to go to Second City then on to Saturday Night Live.

When you were starting out, who were your earliest influences?

I loved to listen to and watch Steve Martin. I loved Monty Python too. I would quote everything with my friends. Everybody else would be, y'know, listening to Pink Floyd and we'd be doing Monty Python. Then there was Bill Murray. I loved Bill Murray and his Saturday Night Live stuff.

What was the circuit in Chicago like at the time?

Well it was weird, because in Chicago it was mostly improv comedy. Which is really exciting because you'd get on stage and perform almost every night. There'd be these schools of improv just like schools of a

Teenage Cancer Trust has announced a new fund-raising auction with six notable music photographers supplying photos signed by the subjects.

Photos of Dave Grohl, Libertines, Slipknot, Marina and the Diamonds, Noel Fielding and Paul Weller are being auctioned, all as A1 sized prints created specifically for the Teenage Cancer Trust auction.

The auctions are all live on the eBay site right now, following the links below to get involved and raise money for a great cause.

Marina and the Diamonds by Andy Willsher
Slipknot by Paul Harries
Paul Weller by Mick Hutson
The Libertines by Roger Sargent
Dave Grohl by Andy Cotterill
The Mighty Boosh's Noel Fielding by Andy Fallon

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