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" Life without music would be a mistake. "
Julian Barratt
Without
Music
Would
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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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" Laughter's good, but it's not love. It's one aspect. One emotion you're eliciting from your audience. "
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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. "
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" Performers often can be quite socially inept, you know? And even great comedians are like that. "
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" The secret of comedy is don't grow up. That's why some comedians are a nightmare, because they never grow up. "
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" I've got a lot of friends with whom I discuss jazz. "
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Lot
" My dad listened to a load of jazz - Mahavishnu, Weather Report, Herbie Hancock. "
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" I write tragedies and things when I'm alone. Chekhovian dramas. "
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" I'm not very funny at all in real life. "
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Real Life
Very
" 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. "
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" I have trouble keeping a lid on the self-hatred. "
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Keeping
" 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. "
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Time
Earth
" 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. "
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Day
World
Writing
" Sometimes I do that quite a lot, go back and forth a lot between ideas. Try things out. "
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Back
Sometimes
Ideas
" I was in a band called Groove Solution. Because there was a groove crisis, and we solved it. "
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Solution
Groove
" 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. "
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Ambition
Over
Jazz
" I don't do stand-up anymore. "
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Stand-Up
Anymore
" I am a man who dreams of culture. "
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Am
" Sport doesn't do anything for me. And I don't do anything for it. "
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Me
" 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!' "
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Myself
Building
Finish
" Comedians are not well people. Well people are not drawn to creating. "
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Well
People
Creating
" When things start running a bit too well on the tracks, I tend to derail them if I can. "
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Start
Running
" 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. "
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" I miss quite major cultural signposts quite often. "
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Film