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Last night we were lucky enough to attend what could be the most bizarre party ever held – one in celebration of those Kings Of Kook, The Mighty Boosh, one of the precious few comedy groups lucky enough to habitually work with a man in a gorilla suit and appear on the front cover of the NME on a regular basis.

As you'd expect with anything involving Noel Fielding, there were hordes of screaming, sighing, giggling women all desperate to be near the big-haired beauty (their words, not ours).

After watching snippets from their new 'Future Sailors Tour' and a special look at the goings-on backstage, we met the team themselves, including the constantly entertaining (and criminally underrated) Rich Fulcher, Julian Barratt (Howard Moon), Noel Fielding (Vince Noir), his brother, Michael Fielding (Naboo) and Dave Brown (Bollo - sans gorilla costume).

Allow us to share with you just what irredeemable nonsense and chucklesome insanity we learnt from the gang after the jump.

1. Fans of the Boosh are absolutely crackers (in a good way) and it's compulsory to dress up as character if you're attending a show, going to a launch party, or even stepping out to the shops.

2. Dressing up as a giant naan bread (mango chutney optional) will help you garner great praise from team Boosh.

3. If you want a kiss from Noel Fielding (he offered, we politely declined) then scream at the top of your lungs "CAN I HAVE A KISS PLEASE NOEL!" and run to the stage. You might get a kiss, but you'll also get escorted out by security.

4. The best place to hide your tattoo of The Boosh from your mum is the ankle. Fan tip: wear socks. All the time.

5. Noel Fielding describes his barnet as "a hill of hair".

6. Legendary onetime funny man Robin Williams is a huge fan of the show, reportedly turning up backstage at one of their US gigs to do his impression of the Crack Fox. Fielding described him as being "a lot smaller than I thought. The size of a cashew nut."

7. Dave and Michael (Bollo and Naboo) constantly fight offstage, mainly about spoons, forks and pot noodles.

8. The gang are assembling an album of "crunchy beats" as well as writing a Mighty Boosh film, adding: "We're writing it now. Putting things on paper, doing drawings, touching each other."

9. Rich Fulcher was a little bit obsessed with the fact that you "couldn't do a number 2 on the tour bus" which we were hoping was a flight into the only-slightly-surreal... but it wasn't. It turns out you actually can't. Now you know.

10. Michael Fielding has an amazingly cool 'tache. Fact.

11. Despite all appearances to the contrary, the Boosh are insanely hard to photograph. Either that or our man was so star struck he forgot to turn on his flash, as evidenced by the picture posted for your amusement below, followed by some terrific footage.