Rich Fulcher

Rich Fulcher (born 18 November 1968, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.) is an American comedy performer based in the United Kingdom. He is best known for being in the British comedy The Mighty Boosh, alongside comedy duo Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding.

Fulcher studied as a lawyer (earning a degree in government from Dartmouth College) but after graduating pursued a career in comedy instead. He took to improvised comedy at the ImprovOlympic in Chicago, where he was one of the early members of the Upright Citizens Brigade. After abandoning his legal ambitions he took his stage show Mom I'm Not A Lawyer to numerous venues which received very positive critical acclaim[citation needed]: the angle which made it especially funny was that his parents did not know he gave up law.[citation needed] This is mentioned on the Spaced DVD commentary, in which it is revealed that the character of 'Brian', who kept up the occupational pretence of a lawyer to satisfy his parents, was inspired by Fulcher.

Fulcher has played many types of characters but is perhaps best known for playing dull-witted, comic goons. He is probably most famous for his portrayal of Bob Fossil in The Mighty Boosh stage, radio and television shows, as well as playing many other characters, including the Ape of Death and Leister Corncrake. He is also the only writer to provide additional material for the TV series outside of the major writers Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt. Fielding and Barratt came across Rich when touring in America and enjoyed his random absurd conversations so much that they wrote a part for him. Fulcher has a variety of running gags on The Mighty Boosh: he often plays very short characters, performing them on his knees, and when he plays various cockney characters he can be heard muttering, "I'm a cockney, I'm a cockney..." His Boosh characters often die horribly, being grated or otherwise murdered, and as this happens Fulcher will sometimes say, "A little to the left!". Moreover, usually his characters have the running joke of saying "Gather round" (or some variant) and then having an inanimate object gather round too (e.g. the Naan Bread in the 'Legend of Old Gregg' episode, Fire, Extreme Sports Calendar). It was also in the Mighty Boosh that he met Matt Berry, who played Dixon Bainbridge. In the documentary, "A Journey Through Time and Space", he was said to be the only person who plays a "watered down version of himself". Fulcher claims that after portraying 'Tommy Nooka' people came up to him in the street and demanded him to 'do Tommy'.

Rich Fulcher was a star and major writer for the BBC Three sketch show Snuff Box, along with Matt Berry, whom he met on the set of The Mighty Boosh. Berry plays the High Executioner to the King of England and Fulcher his assistant. He also plays other minor characters in the series.

So far, he is much better-known in the UK than in his native USA. In the USA, Fulcher was one of the "undercover" comedians who posed as various absurd talk show guests, in the 2004 Comedy Central series Crossballs. His other American claim to fame is that he is one of the body doubles that appears in Wayne's World 2 when they go to London. In 1998 he starred in and wrote for the sketch show Unnatural Acts for the Paramount Comedy Channel alongside his future Mighty Boosh co-stars Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding and also Seán Cullen and Rich Easter. Fulcher played a baker in AD/BC: A Rock Opera, where he met up with Matt Berry again, and they then starred in their own comedy series, Snuff Box, on BBC Three. In addition to his acting and writing Fulcher is also a singer and dancer, and has employed these talents in various Boosh episodes and stage shows, on Snuff Box and as tech correspondent/stand up comic Dane Rivers on the comedy videocast Goodnight Burbank. He was interviewed on the first episode of comedian Steve Agee's podcast "The John Show". He has also provided the voice over for an MBNA credit card advert. Recently he provided the vocals to "Uncle Kevin" by DeadDogInBlackBag, a new Brighton-based electro outfit, fronted by Ami "Chihuahua" Richardson and Holly-Jane "the Pain" Shears.

On 5 November 2007 he starred in Golf War on E4, alongside Season 1 Boosh regulars Simon Farnaby and Matt Berry. [1] He currently stars in ITV's mobile TV show "The Gym" as Dave Darblay, a life coach unable to recover from the loneliness of being left by his wife.

In 2008, he also appeared in an episode of Adult Swim's Fat Guy Stuck in Internet entitled "Beast and Breakfast", as well as playing the character of Mr Brilliance in new BBC Three comedy, Trexx and Flipside. He also appeared as the priest at Sarah Silverman's wedding to her dog in a 2008 episode of The Sarah Silverman Program.

It was announced on 11th November 2008 that MTV have commissioned a spin-off series of The Mighty Boosh, starring Rich Fulcher as Eleanor, the transvestite who appeared in the Mighty Boosh Series Three episode "Eels". [1] Although rumoured, it is not clear if any other Mighty Boosh characters will appear in it. A 20-minute pilot episode has already been made, which can be viewed on several comedy websites currently and is expected to air on MTV2 shortly (as will the series).

He appeared as a talent show judge in series 3 of the hit British TV drama Skins.




What members say | Filmography

Rich Fulcher - what members say

Rich Fulcher - filmography

5 most recent films

Journey of the Childmen - The Mighty Boosh on Tour - 3.0 stars
Bunny and the Bull - 3.0 stars
Bunny and the Bull - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
The Mighty Boosh Live - Future Sailors Tour - 3.5 stars
The Mighty Boosh - Series 3 - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Mighty Boosh - Series 2 - 4.0 stars
The Mighty Boosh - Series 3 - 4.0 stars
The Mighty Boosh - Series 1 - 4.0 stars
The Mighty Boosh Live - 4.0 stars
The Mighty Boosh Live - Future Sailors Tour - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Journey of the Childmen - The Mighty Boosh on Tour - 3.0 stars
Bunny and the Bull - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Bunny and the Bull - 3.0 stars
AD/BC - A Rock Opera - 3.0 stars
Snuff Box - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Noel Fielding - 58 times - show films
Julian Barratt - 58 times - show films
Michael Fielding - 51 times - show films
Dave Brown - 23 times - show films
Matt Berry - 23 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Paul King - 52 times - show films
none - 4 times - show films
Richard Ayoade - 1 times - show films
Michael Cumming - 1 times - show films
Oliver Ralfe - 1 times - show films