Julian Barratt Quotes

Julian Barratt

Profession : Comedian

Birth : May 4, 1968

I don't do stand-up anymore.

Julian Barratt

I write tragedies and things when I'm alone. Chekhovian dramas.

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Musicals are just funny to me.

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When things start running a bit too well on the tracks, I tend to derail them if I can.

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I don't have any friends with cool clothes.

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My dad listened to a load of jazz - Mahavishnu, Weather Report, Herbie Hancock.

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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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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.

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I love 'Airplane,' and I love 'Naked Gun' and all those films, where you're parodying.

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Sometimes I do that quite a lot, go back and forth a lot between ideas. Try things out.

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We did have that, in the background of the character and the show, 'Mindhorn,' set on the Isle of Man, that every episode they would have to mention the temperate microclimate of the Isle of Man.

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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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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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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.

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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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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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You don't need a high concept to make a great film, of course. 'Withnail & I' is not - it's probably not much on paper, but it's one of the funniest films ever made.

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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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It's a weird profession, as I don't really consider myself an actor. I did at one point, and I went and started doing auditions, and I was so useless at them and so demoralised by doing audition after audition and not getting them and also not being able to take it in my stride at all. I just felt crushed and worthless.

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The acting life can be quite scary, really.

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