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

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My dad wanted to be a musician, so when I started playing guitar, he was like, 'Go for it.' That is what I did for ages; I was in bands. And then I went to university and got into comedy somehow. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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" 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 am a man who dreams of culture. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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