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

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" I'm always trying to do anything between comedy and horror. "

" I don't have any friends with cool clothes. "

" I write tragedies and things when I'm alone. Chekhovian dramas. "

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

" I want to create a world where all the rules are different. It should be magical to enter. "

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

" 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. "

" The profession is rife with fear about your age, about your validly, longevity, appearance. It's vanity, and it's hard to sort of avoid all those things; they come at you as an actor. "

" 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. "

" 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!' "

" When you're really laughing, you feel like a little kid, and nothing matters. "

" People can see that we are part of a tradition of absurd comedy, stretching from Spike Milligan and Peter Cook through to Monty Python and Vic Reeves. We're not like Ricky Gervais's hyper-real cringe comedy. We're at the other end of the scale, but there's room for the sillier stuff, too. "

" We're so insecure, comedians. 'Did you laugh? Do you think I was funny?' "

" 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. "

" I remember films I made at university, which are unbelievably pretentious. Poetry that I'd written that I delivered to camera, against a Venetian blind, strong shadows, looking slightly off-camera. "

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

" My life is divided up into before I had kids and after. "

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