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

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" I miss quite major cultural signposts quite often. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I was going to be a jazz-fusion guitarist. I came to London at one point with my mate, and we were going to make it. We spent three days there and went back home to our mummies. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" With something that's not based just in comedy, you can be a bit weirder in a slightly realistic way. "

" With the 'Boosh,' we were trying to do this strange, weird thing that had its own language and visual style, and it wasn't really what the powers that be wanted. "

" When things start running a bit too well on the tracks, I tend to derail them if I can. "

" If you come away from a show thinking of an image, that's as good as remembering a joke. A lot of those shows, like 'The Office,' they are brilliant, but they're not visually interesting. "

" 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. "

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

" Life without music would be a mistake. "

" Laughter's good, but it's not love. It's one aspect. One emotion you're eliciting from your audience. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

" Musicals are just funny to me. "

" 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 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. "

" I've done interviews in the past where, apparently, I didn't give the journalist any eye contact. I'm a bit shy, yes. I've thought about refusing to do any press at all. "

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