Noel Fielding debunks rumours of Mighty Boosh tour and movie

Comedian Noel Fielding has denied reports that The Mighty Boosh are set to reform for a tour and a film.

Reports circulated on Monday, including on this website, that Fielding and his former comedy partner Julian Barratt were working on new material, after the Mail on Sunday quoted Fielding as saying: "We're going on tour early in the New Year."

Fielding and Barratt had reunited as the surrealist double act last November after four years away. Following two warm-up gigs at the Soho theatre in London, they performed a half-hour set – a mixture of old and new material – at Jack Black's Festival Supreme in California as their alter-egos Vince Noir and Howard Moon. They were joined by regular collaborators Dave Brown, who plays Bollo the Ape, and Rich Fulcher.

They had last appeared live together in 2009 on their Future Sailors tour.

The Mail on Sunday also claimed that Barratt had confirmed that they would also be " working on material that hopefully could make a movie".

The pair have written two film scripts in the past, though neither made it to production. One was a "Rocky Horror Picture Show type thing," according to Fielding, in which Barratt played a character who has woken up believing himself to be the last man on earth. The other was an Arctic adventure – "because we always liked the Arctic". In 1999, they played two postmen in cold climes for their live show Arctic Boosh, which was nominated for the Perrier award at the Edinburgh festival fringe.

In 2008, Fielding told XFM: "A film is the first thing we ever wanted to do, so we've always come up with ideas and stuck them in a drawer. Now comedy films like Shaun of the Dead have really opened a lot of doors.

"We wanna make something pretty epic like The Wizard of Oz; something huge and psychedelic with lots of music and animation in it – a big epic fantasy world."

However, after reports emerged Fielding took to Twitter to distance himself from the quotation and comedy fansite The Velvet Onion confirmed that there are currently no plans for the duo to regroup.