Looking on our Twitter page, it seemed to get a mixed reaction, some loyal Noel fans saying they loved it, while other, perhaps more honest people, said it was lacking a certain something. Many fans believe that his Mighty Boosh sidekick Julian Barratt is what's missing.
For anyone who has seen Noel Fielding's stand up, this sort of crazy, unrelated nonsense babble will seem all too familiar. The only problem is, Noel isn't that good at stand up. It turns out he's not that great at sketch shows either, although he is improving.
It will be hard for him to ever top the brilliance of the Mighty Boosh, but is replicating it the route to go down? Is there any depth to Fielding's ability to be funny? Or will he just continue to put random words together and say them out loud?
However, there were parts of Luxury Comedy that were very amusing. Sgt Raymond Boombox was probably the best character he created this series, and with only one show down he'll do well to beat him.
As with all Fielding's musings, there are bits that are quite genius and very, very clever. The Pele 'Is it a football? Or is it the cups saucer?' sketch is brilliant and really witty when Pele finally crosses the ball to him and it smashes.
Unfortunately all of these brilliant bits are sandwiched in between what appears to be filler. The random kitchen scene, the lion in his cage, they all appear to be trying too hard to be funny, and it's obvious to see.
The only thing we can do now is wait until this weeks episode, or the rest of the series. What he does after that will show what Noel really thinks of it, and if he reunites himself with Julian Barratt, then maybe the Twitter dissenters are right.
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