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

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" Sometimes it takes you two or three seconds to get your head round a joke and laugh at it. With a snot-bubble laugh, it comes instinctively - almost in spite of yourself. It's caused by something silly - like when a little kid says something unexpectedly bizarre. "

" If the 'Boosh' was a bit more of a specific thing, or less multi-limbed, we would probably have done it and moved on. "

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

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

" I always dreamt of being in 'Kerrang.' That was my ambition. I read that religiously when I was into heavy metal. Then the jazz magazines took over. "

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

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

" I'm not very funny at all in real life. "

" 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. "

" I want to do things or write things that make people feel a bit more beautiful or tragic or something because there are so many other things than just funny. "

" We used to have to convince people we were funny, and it didn't always work. "

" 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. "

" I have trouble keeping a lid on the self-hatred. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Films do have suspense and tensions and scares and jumps, and I like to write things that have both in them, comedy and horror, but sometimes they are hard to balance. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" This business is ephemeral, and you have to maintain a healthy cynicism about it. There's a 'flavour of the month' aspect to it, so you have to keep moving on and mutating. "

" Performers often can be quite socially inept, you know? And even great comedians are like that. "

" 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. "

" I've got a lot of friends with whom I discuss jazz. "

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

" I am a man who dreams of culture. "