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

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" Life without music would be a mistake. "

" 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. "

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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.' "

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

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

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