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 More Quotes by Julian Barratt More Quotes From Julian Barratt When you're really laughing, you feel like a little kid, and nothing matters. Julian Barratt nothing feel like you I miss quite major cultural signposts quite often. Julian Barratt cultural quite miss often 'Galaxy Quest' is a fantastic film. Julian Barratt quest fantastic galaxy film Life without music would be a mistake. Julian Barratt without music mistake life 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 you appearance age fear In comedy terms, usually when the weather's bad, it goes much better. When it's sunny, people don't come to see comedy gigs because they're all really happy and don't need cheering up. Julian Barratt better happy weather people We're so insecure, comedians. 'Did you laugh? Do you think I was funny?' Julian Barratt laugh think you funny I ran off stage at my first gig. Halfway through it, I forgot my lines and didn't know what to do, so I just ran out of the building down towards a lake. I was going to throw myself in, but the compere came out and said, 'No, it's going well, come back and finish the gig!' Julian Barratt down myself know building The secret of comedy is don't grow up. That's why some comedians are a nightmare, because they never grow up. Julian Barratt grow-up grow never comedy We used to have to convince people we were funny, and it didn't always work. Julian Barratt always work funny people Sport doesn't do anything for me. And I don't do anything for it. Julian Barratt sport anything me I am a man who dreams of culture. Julian Barratt i-am dreams man culture 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 laugh never thought people 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 end comedy tradition people 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.' Julian Barratt good you enjoy people 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 you moving-on business moving Most stand-up is incredibly boring. It's time for people to do something else. Julian Barratt something boring time people I'm always trying to do anything between comedy and horror. Julian Barratt always comedy horror trying I want to create a world where all the rules are different. It should be magical to enter. Julian Barratt rules create want world 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 laugh yourself you sometimes
