English - Comedian | May 4, 1968 -
The secret of comedy is don't grow up. That's why some comedians are a nightmare, because they never grow up.
Julian Barratt
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We used to have to convince people we were funny, and it didn't always work.
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Sport doesn't do anything for me. And I don't do anything for it.
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I am a man who dreams of culture.
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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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It's good to give people a jolt. If they're expecting one thing, it's important to give them something else. If you do something startling, audiences might at first freak out, but then they start to think, 'This is not going to be conventional. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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Most stand-up is incredibly boring. It's time for people to do something else.
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I'm always trying to do anything between comedy and horror.
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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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I want to create a world where all the rules are different. It should be magical to enter.
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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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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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