Well I am sure that many people out there will have heard about Snuff Box, so much so that I am probably a late arrival to the supporter of this dark and disturbingly surreal comedy show. It feature some of the supporting actors from the cult show The Mighty Boosh, as such it kind of fits into the same real/unreal zany comedy. If you liked the Mighty Boosh then Snuff Box will wet your cockles.
As you might guess by its name it has a rather sinister side that only the truly disturbed will actually find funny, most people will probably find that it crosses a few too many lines. Personally I loved every minute of it, I insisted that we watch 3 episodes back to back last night, when I was at a friends house warming. I was delighted when i realised that my friends have a dark and twisted sense of humour as well as me.
Whilst Snuff Box doesn’t have Noel Fielding or Julian Barratt who made there name with the Mighty Boosh, instead we have Rich Fulcher and Matt Berry, one a fine arts graduate the other a lawyer from chicago. Who meet up and wrote and starred in their very own sit-com with a difference. The pair play hangmen by day and sit in a posh gentlemen club at night, what occurs in between is sheer geniuos. I have attach the ‘boyfriend’ sketch that occurs during every episode to one extent or another.
Anyway get onto amazon and buy a copy, it was so controversial that it was only shown once on BBC3 in 2006, and then only after 11pm due to the content.