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Julian Barratt
Julian Barratt
English Comedian
Born: May 4, 1968
Comedy Funny Good People Think You
Related authors: Benny Hill James Acaster Jimmy Carr Julian Clary Les Dawson Norman Wisdom Rowan Atkinson Russell Brand
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. Julian Barratt
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Writing can make you feel a bit psychotic. You create a world, and you're sitting inside it all day long, talking to people who are not really there. Julian Barratt
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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. Julian Barratt
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When you're really laughing, you feel like a little kid, and nothing matters. Julian Barratt
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I miss quite major cultural signposts quite often. Julian Barratt
Signposts Miss Major Cultural Quite Often
The profession is rife with fear about your age, about your validly, longevity, appearance. It's vanity, and it's hard to sort of avoid all those things; they come at you as an actor. Julian Barratt
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We're so insecure, comedians. 'Did you laugh? Do you think I was funny?' Julian Barratt
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I am a man who dreams of culture. Julian Barratt
Dreams Man Culture Am Who
We have a need to make people laugh at things they'd never thought about, make them laugh at things that aren't logical. Julian Barratt
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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. Julian Barratt
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This business is ephemeral, and you have to maintain a healthy cynicism about it. There's a 'flavour of the month' aspect to it, so you have to keep moving on and mutating. Julian Barratt
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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. Julian Barratt
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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
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It's not immediately categorisable. I don't know what to say when anyone asks what the 'Boosh' is. Julian Barratt
Say Immediately Know Anyone Ask
Adapting a book doesn't mean the book stops just because you've made a film out of it. Julian Barratt
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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
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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. Julian Barratt
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Performers often can be quite socially inept, you know? And even great comedians are like that. Julian Barratt
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Musicals are just funny to me. Julian Barratt
Funny Me Musicals Just
I don't have any friends with cool clothes. Julian Barratt
Clothes Friends Any Cool
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. Julian Barratt
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I love 'Airplane,' and I love 'Naked Gun' and all those films, where you're parodying. Julian Barratt
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Sometimes I do that quite a lot, go back and forth a lot between ideas. Try things out. Julian Barratt
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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. Julian Barratt
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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. Julian Barratt
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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. Julian Barratt
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