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" When you're really laughing, you feel like a little kid, and nothing matters. "
Julian Barratt
Feel
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Nothing
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" 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. "
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" 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 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. "
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" I can act with either eye, but you've got to be twice as good as an actor to act with one eye. You need to put all your emotions just through one eye and really punch it out of that eye. I found it quite difficult to do at first, and then I found a technique that allowed me to act with one eye, which I patented. "
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" Musicals are just funny to me. "
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" With something that's not based just in comedy, you can be a bit weirder in a slightly realistic way. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I am a man who dreams of culture. "
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" Performers often can be quite socially inept, you know? And even great comedians are like that. "
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You
" 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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More
Me
" I want to create a world where all the rules are different. It should be magical to enter. "
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" The acting life can be quite scary, really. "
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" 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. "
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Humor
" 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. "
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" 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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Laugh
You
Yourself
" Sometimes, you write things that sound really great when you're at home but don't work when you shine the light of an audience on them. Great writing and live writing are two separate things. "
Julian Barratt
Light
Live
Great
" I was in a band called Groove Solution. Because there was a groove crisis, and we solved it. "
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Crisis
Solution
Groove
" It's not immediately categorisable. I don't know what to say when anyone asks what the 'Boosh' is. "
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Anyone
Immediately
" Sometimes I do that quite a lot, go back and forth a lot between ideas. Try things out. "
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Sometimes
Ideas
" 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
" 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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Comedy
Guitar
" 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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Building
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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 have a need to make people laugh at things they'd never thought about, make them laugh at things that aren't logical. "
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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. "
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" Adapting a book doesn't mean the book stops just because you've made a film out of it. "
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" I write tragedies and things when I'm alone. Chekhovian dramas. "
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Tragedies
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Things
" 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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" I have trouble keeping a lid on the self-hatred. "
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