Rich Fulcher
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Rich Fulcher (18 November 1968, Chicago, Illinois) is an American comedian who studied as a lawyer but after graduating had a sudden change of heart when he, in his own words, "...Realised that... How do you say it? That it was boring as fuck.". Fulcher then took to improvised comedy at the Olympic Improv West in Chicago, where other greats like John Belushi, Bill Murray, John Candy and Joan Rivers started off.
After abandoning his legal ambitions he took his stage show "Mom I'm Not A Lawyer" to numerous venues which received very positive critical acclaim, the angle which made it especially funny was that actually his mother at the time did not know he wasn't a lawyer.
Fulcher has played many types of characters, but is perhaps best known for playing dull-witted, comic goons. He is probably most famous for his portrayal of Bob Fossil in the Mighty Boosh stage shows, then the radio series The Boosh, and the first Television series (he briefly returned as Fossil in the second series finale). He played many other memorable roles in the first and second series, including the Ape of Death (the Dark Lord of Monkey Hell). Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt came across Rich when touring in America and enjoyed his random absurd conversations so much that they wrote a part for him. Fulcher has a variety of running gags on The Mighty Boosh: he often plays very short characters, performing them on his knees, and when he plays various Cockney characters he can be heard muttering, "I'm a cockney, I'm a cockney..." His Boosh characters often die horribly, being grated, sanded or otherwise murdered, and as this happens Fulcher will sometimes say, "A little to the left!"
So far, he is much better-known in the UK than in his native USA. In the USA, Fulcher was one of the "undercover" comedians who posed as various absurd talk show guests, in the 2004 Comedy Central series Crossballs. His other American claim to fame is that he is one of the body doubles that appears in Wayne's World 2 when they go to London.
Fulcher has played a baker and not Jesus who was being born and completely absent from the classy rock opera in AD/BC: A Rock Opera (Christmas spoof of Nativity, set in 1972), It was here where he met up with Matt Berry again after numerous exchanges between their characters in the Mighty Boosh (Bob Fossil and Dixon Bainbridge).
Fulcher and Boosh co-star Matt Berry starred in their own comedy show Snuff Box on BBC Three. Unfortunately, the show was not renewed for a second series.
In addition to his acting and writing Fulcher is also a singer and dancer, and has employed these talents in various Boosh episodes and stage shows, on Snuff Box and elsewhere.
Rich Fulcher also starred in the sell out Mighty Boosh tour in 2006.
He also did the voice over for a MBNA credit card advert.
