Age: 30 and 25.
Appearance: Barratt is tall literate, erudite, loose, manic. Fielding is shorter, curiously confused, tighter, manic.
Why will they be famous?: What do you mean why will they be famous? Because they are funnier than funny.
Greatest claim to fame so far: Their show, The Mighty Boosh, was the talk of the town at last year's Edinburgh Festival and won the Best Newcomer Perrier Award.
Others say: "Genuinely wierd, but wonderfully funny." (Famous comedy critic Jeremy Novick in his review of their Edinburgh show.)
Sound like: Comparing comedy duos is a dull old game. Everyone good comes out as "like Morecambe and Wise" and everyone dull comes out "like Hale and Pace". Barratt and Fielding are...Imagine Morecambe and Wise if they'd been born into the Python generation. They're taking January off to write a new show, but the TV companies are sniffing around like hound dogs in spring. If they're not major TV stars by next summer, I'll eat my arts editor.
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