Most UK fans are familiar with the Boosh boys more recent contributions to the world of advertising, but some of you may be less aware of some of their more historical endeavours. As it’s been a quiet news day at Boosh HQ, we thought it was a good time to share what we’ve unearthed (apologies in advance to anyone featured who rather forget this particular moment in their career!).
Most of us know about Julian Barratt’s More Th>n ads (indeed, many have been persuaded to insure the car or pet they may or may not own by his silky northern tones – apparently sales if insurance soared when this More Th>n campaign broke)
but not everyone knows that he featured as a ‘freelance scientist’ in a popular TV ad for Metz (a premium packaged spirit made by Martini) in the late 1990s.At the time the agency responsible for the ad claimed that they hadn’t quite nailed ‘the judder’ with this one, and swiftly replaced our Man from Leeds with a spooky Judderman.
Then there’s Rich’s Subway voice-overs that make eating rude-looking sandwiches kind of cool….
…Matt Berry’s infamous and quite brilliant voice-overs for the Natural Confectionery Company, which launched a few classic playground catchphrases and won endless industry awards for its creators….
…not forgetting Matt’s cameo in another award-winning ad, this time for BBC3
Finally, though there’s this classic for Nescafe featuring a very young and rather acrobatic Tom Meeten
We suspect that there are others out there, hidden away collecting cobwebs on youtube.
If you know of one, we’d love to hear about it!
Cool! I haven’t seen most of those, so I enjoyed this.
Tom Meeten uncle bens microwave rice..? I can’t tell fully but it looks like him…
I definitely think it’s him.. I saw that Uncle Ben’s one yesterday and flipped right out, which was kinda embarassing, coz my family were just like wha….?? (They’re not Boosh fans, despite several attempts at conversion.. WTF?)
Yeah! I’m pretty sure its him in the Uncle Bens ad with the cringy “orderly queue” line.
Of course there’s Matt Berry’s 2007 Volvic advert
Also, does anyone know about the advert right after the Metz (0:36), where Noel’s jumping into the bin?
Those were sponser trailers that bookended some sort of music program or festival coverage on channel 4. They featured Noel trying various different ways to sneak into gigs.