Julian Barratt

Comedian

1968-05-04

Quotes by Julian Barratt

• Naboo: You've read all the books, but when it comes to the crunch, where are you?Saboo: The crunch! How dare you speak to me of the crunch? You know nothing of the crunch. You've never even been to the crunch!Naboo: Been there once.Saboo: Oh, a little day trip 'round the crunch, we can all go there as tourists. 'Ooh, that's a bit of crunch-'Naboo: Shut it!

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• Naboo: You've read all the books, but when it comes to the crunch, where are you?Saboo: The crunch! How dare you speak to me of the crunch? You know nothing of the crunch. You've never even been to the crunch!Naboo: Been there once.Saboo: Oh, a little day trip 'round the crunch, we can all go there as tourists. 'Ooh, that's a bit of crunch-'Naboo: Shut it!

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• I was in a band called Groove Solution. Because there was a groove crisis, and we solved it.

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• With something that's not based just in comedy, you can be a bit weirder in a slightly realistic way.

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

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