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- Nov 07, 2020
I miss quite major cultural signposts quite often.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
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!'
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
The secret of comedy is don't grow up. That's why some comedians are a nightmare, because they never grow up.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a man who dreams of culture.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have a need to make people laugh at things they'd never thought about, make them laugh at things that aren't logical.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Healthy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most stand-up is incredibly boring. It's time for people to do something else.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
I want to create a world where all the rules are different. It should be magical to enter.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was going to be a jazz-fusion guitarist. I came to London at one point with my mate, and we were going to make it. We spent three days there and went back home to our mummies.
- Immediately
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not immediately categorisable. I don't know what to say when anyone asks what the 'Boosh' is.
- Film
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Galaxy Quest' is a fantastic film.
- Just Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
Adapting a book doesn't mean the book stops just because you've made a film out of it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We just thought of 'Boosh' as an extension of our childhoods in a way, the stuff we had grown up on and loved: 'Monty Python,' The Goodies, Frank Zappa. It spoke to a certain type of person, and we just carried on doing it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been a horror fan pretty much in the sense that my sense of horror and my sense of humor were both equally kindled by films as a kid.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I liked horror and comedy, basically, from a young age, but I just ended up getting into comedy because there was - I could do stand-up comedy, and that was my way into this business, and then there was no stand-up horror, and I didn't know how to get into that world.
- Stand
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
Films do have suspense and tensions and scares and jumps, and I like to write things that have both in them, comedy and horror, but sometimes they are hard to balance.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Performers often can be quite socially inept, you know? And even great comedians are like that.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like talking about myself; I'm not good at analysing myself. I don't want to analyse myself.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got a lot of friends with whom I discuss jazz.
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- Nov 07, 2020