The Mighty Boosh is unlike any show you are ever likely to see, and one that defies description. But here goes.

First brought to life by Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding in the upstairs room of a North London pub back in the late 1990s, Howard Moon and Vince Noir are best, if not sometimes brutally mismatched and unwilling, friends.

Comic fantasy, magical realism, surreal humour, whatever: vain jazzman Howard and '60s throwback Vince are fellow zoo-keepers who continually battled against the owner of the dilapidated Zoo-niverse, Dixon Bainbridge, and his manager Bob Fossil. If they are very lucky they are sometimes helped on their adventures by zoo kiosk worker and all-knowing enigmatic mystic, Naboo, and Bollo, the talking ape.

On their journeys they encounter a range of weird and unusual characters including the Parka people, some mod wolves, the ape of death who has a severe hair complex and a terrifying boxing kangaroo.

In series two, having broken out of the Zoo-Niverse and now living in a flat in Dalston, Howard and Vince are free to explore the globe in search of fame and fortune. Series two aired on BBC THREE in July 2005, and was followed by the duo's first nationwide live tour of the UK.