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 Copy Share Image
People can see that we are part of a tradition of absurd comedy, stretching from Spike Milligan and Peter Cook through to Monty Python… — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
I want to create a world where all the rules are different. It should be magical to enter. — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
We're so insecure, comedians. 'Did you laugh? Do you think I was funny?' — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
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… — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
The secret of comedy is don't grow up. That's why some comedians are a nightmare, because they never grow up. — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
I want to do things or write things that make people feel a bit more beautiful or tragic or something because there are so… — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
I remember films I made at university, which are unbelievably pretentious. Poetry that I'd written that I delivered to camera, against a Venetian blind,… — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
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… — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
I like the countryside. I like chopping wood. I'd like to be a carpenter. — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
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… — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
