As all good Noel Fielding fans know, today is his 40th birthday. To mark this auspicious occasion we bring you Part 1 of our exclusive interview with Noel, in which he discusses what this landmark birthday means to him.

A few weeks ago, we asked you all to submit your questions for Noel, about the future of the Boosh, Luxury Comedy, and whatever else you wanted to know.  There were so many questions, Noel very kindly spent two hours pouring through them all, so we’ve ended up with our most in-depth interview yet.

Four – yes four – further parts of the interview will follow over the next few weeks (we thought it might be a bit too much to cope with in one go!). We’ll be covering everything from his predilection for cross-dressing to meditating with Russell Brand, with plenty of exclusives in between.

If you’d like to know how the questions that you submitted were used please see the small print below.

In the meantime, we’d like to wish Noel a very happy birthday and offer heartfelt thanks to him for taking the time to chat to us. We hope you enjoy the video below – and look out for Part 2 coming to TVO soon!

The small print:
Thanks to everyone who sent in questions for the interview; we know you’ll be keen to see if Noel answer yours. We printed out your questions and corresponding names, which were read through by Noel – so he saw them! We tried to include as many of them as we could in the interview itself, but the nature of the conversation made it difficult to stick to a strict approach of question/answer, question/answer, etc. Noel sometimes answered an entire page  of questions with a single answer, which meant we couldn’t then go back and ask the questions individually again. We therefore tried to strike a balance between asking as many of your questions as possible and producing an interesting, insightful interview. It just so happens that this week’s video doesn’t include many of the questions that were submitted, but future instalments will contain more. We hope you like the results, and apologies if you’re disappointed that your question isn’t used or your name referenced. Unfortunately, it was impossible to include everything. Thanks again for your support x