Julian Barratt Quotes

Julian Barratt

Profession : Comedian

Birth : May 4, 1968

I'm always trying to do anything between comedy and horror.

Julian Barratt

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.

Julian Barratt

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.

Julian Barratt

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.'

Julian Barratt

I was going to be a jazz-fusion guitarist. I came to London at one point with my mate, and we were going to make it. We spent three days there and went back home to our mummies.

Julian Barratt

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

Julian Barratt

'Galaxy Quest' is a fantastic film.

Julian Barratt

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

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.

Julian Barratt

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.

Julian Barratt

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.

Julian Barratt

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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Films do have suspense and tensions and scares and jumps, and I like to write things that have both in them, comedy and horror, but sometimes they are hard to balance.

Julian Barratt

I think with performing, initially I was terrified on stage, absolutely terrified. And I did it again and again and again, and I learned sort of how it works, and then I was able to do it.

Julian Barratt

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

Julian Barratt

I don't like talking about myself; I'm not good at analysing myself. I don't want to analyse myself.

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

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

Julian Barratt

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

Julian Barratt

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

Julian Barratt