Unnatural Acts
Genre Comedy
Starring Julian Barratt
Sean Cullen
Rich Easter
Noel Fielding
Rich Fulcher
Mark Caven
Theme music composer Julian Barratt
Country of origin  England
 United Kingdom
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 6
Production
Producer(s) Gary Reich
Release
Original network Paramount Comedy
Original release 1998

Unnatural Acts was a 1998 sketch comedy series written by Julian Barratt, Sean Cullen, Rich Easter, and Rich Fulcher on the Paramount Comedy Channel.

Characters[edit]

The Zookeepers[edit]

One of the recurring sketches shows Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding as zookeepers, having the same kind of wordy, bragging discussions that later became an integral part of The Mighty Boosh. Some of the topics from Unnatural Acts were kept in The Mighty Boosh, e.g. "don’t touch me", "never tremble with a newt" and "his eyes are like black holes", as well as the many threats of the nature "I'll come through your flesh like soft cheese", "I'll take your arms off gently, it will tickle, but then I'll punch your stumps" or "I'll get forty trained grasshoppers to kick your eyes out and replace them with wheat. You’ll be known as 'wheat eyes'".

The zookeepers are called Alan and George, but there are mentions of a person called Bob Fossil. Parts of Bob Fossil’s traits in The Mighty Boosh can be spotted in some of Rich Fulcher’s characters in Unnatural Acts.