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" 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. "

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Julian Barratt

Ambition

Over

Jazz

" 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.' "

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

Julian Barratt

About

Want

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We have a need to make people laugh at things they'd never thought about, make them laugh at things that aren't logical. "

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

" Me and Noel went to HBO once and pitched this really ludicrous idea about us driving around in a haunted car, and they just stared at us. Literally stared at us! It was awful. Luckily, we were together, so we could laugh about it, but if we were on our own, it would have been one of the worst moments ever. "

Julian Barratt

Together

Moments

" 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 think with performing, initially I was terrified on stage, absolutely terrified. And I did it again and again and again, and I learned sort of how it works, and then I was able to do it. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

Julian Barratt

Think

" Most comedians are borderline psychotic. It's what makes their work interesting. "

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

" 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. "

" It's not immediately categorisable. I don't know what to say when anyone asks what the 'Boosh' is. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" I could say I'm a writer or that I'm a musician but I don't really do music; I do music to go with things I'm developing. Then I do act in a few things, but I'm not really an actor. I'm not a comedian, but I am known for comedy. I just don't know. I feel like I'm a slightly interdisciplinary jack of all trades. "

" Writing can make you feel a bit psychotic. You create a world, and you're sitting inside it all day long, talking to people who are not really there. "

" 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. "

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