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" 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.' "

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" 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. "

Julian Barratt

Person

Way

" 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 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!' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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

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

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Julian Barratt

Sport

Anything

" It's a weird profession, as I don't really consider myself an actor. I did at one point, and I went and started doing auditions, and I was so useless at them and so demoralised by doing audition after audition and not getting them and also not being able to take it in my stride at all. I just felt crushed and worthless. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Most stand-up is incredibly boring. It's time for people to do something else. "

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

" 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. "

" Life without music would be a mistake. "