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" I did try and do some spooky stand up once, and some of my stand-up had - I tried to do some horror stand-up, but it didn't really work very well. "

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" I liked horror and comedy, basically, from a young age, but I just ended up getting into comedy because there was - I could do stand-up comedy, and that was my way into this business, and then there was no stand-up horror, and I didn't know how to get into that world. "

" I love 'Airplane,' and I love 'Naked Gun' and all those films, where you're parodying. "

" Sport doesn't do anything for me. And I don't do anything for it. "

" Pain - that is what life is about, isn't it? Suffering with moments of reprieve. "

" I am a man who dreams of culture. "

" I ran off stage at my first gig. Halfway through it, I forgot my lines and didn't know what to do, so I just ran out of the building down towards a lake. I was going to throw myself in, but the compere came out and said, 'No, it's going well, come back and finish the gig!' "

" I thought I could see how standup worked. I never thought of being an actor - or anything else, really - but I thought, 'I can see how you get on stage and tell jokes.' "

" You don't need a high concept to make a great film, of course. 'Withnail & I' is not - it's probably not much on paper, but it's one of the funniest films ever made. "

" Sometimes, you write things that sound really great when you're at home but don't work when you shine the light of an audience on them. Great writing and live writing are two separate things. "

" I like the countryside. I like chopping wood. I'd like to be a carpenter. "

" My dad listened to a load of jazz - Mahavishnu, Weather Report, Herbie Hancock. "

" We just thought of 'Boosh' as an extension of our childhoods in a way, the stuff we had grown up on and loved: 'Monty Python,' The Goodies, Frank Zappa. It spoke to a certain type of person, and we just carried on doing it. "

" Musicals are just funny to me. "

" The secret of comedy is don't grow up. That's why some comedians are a nightmare, because they never grow up. "

" I can't do jokes. I've always come from left field and tried to subvert conventional comedy. I started as a rebellion against that - albeit a very soft and surreal rebellion. It's escapist. "

" Comedians are not well people. Well people are not drawn to creating. "

" I find the pressure to be funny when you're being interviewed live - quite intense. "

" I'm not a natural comic, I don't think. That's why I gave up stand-up. It was hard. It involved a lot of death. Dying. Dying on stage. But it's one of those jobs you can only learn by doing it. "

" It's strange, but something about lack of structure needs a structure itself. Otherwise, after a while, it's like looking at a Rothko painting or a Peter Greenaway film. You think, 'OK, I want to see something else now.' "

" We should send a load of bad celebrities to colonise Mars. They would have to mate in space, and then their children would be sent back to Earth in 50 years' time. "

" I've been a horror fan pretty much in the sense that my sense of horror and my sense of humor were both equally kindled by films as a kid. "

" In comedy terms, usually when the weather's bad, it goes much better. When it's sunny, people don't come to see comedy gigs because they're all really happy and don't need cheering up. "

" It's good to give people a jolt. If they're expecting one thing, it's important to give them something else. If you do something startling, audiences might at first freak out, but then they start to think, 'This is not going to be conventional. I'm going to enjoy this.' "

" I don't like talking about myself; I'm not good at analysing myself. I don't want to analyse myself. "

" Not really a good idea to eat things fans have made because you don't know what state of mind they were in when they made them. "

" Life without music would be a mistake. "

" The acting life can be quite scary, really. "

" For me, there's no dichotomy between being shy or a performer, because I think it's more a way of slightly presenting a version of things to the world. "

" Sometimes I do that quite a lot, go back and forth a lot between ideas. Try things out. "

" I was in a band called Groove Solution. Because there was a groove crisis, and we solved it. "