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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. "

Julian Barratt

Strange

Language

Trying

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" I am a man who dreams of culture. "

Julian Barratt

I Am

Culture

" 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. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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Julian Barratt

Together

Moments

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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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. "

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