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English - Comedian Born: May 4, 1968

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.

Comedy Jokes Always Rebellion

When you're really laughing, you feel like a little kid, and nothing matters.

You Feel Nothing Like

I miss quite major cultural signposts quite often.

Miss Quite Cultural Often

'Galaxy Quest' is a fantastic film.

Galaxy Film Fantastic Quest

Life without music would be a mistake.

Life Music Mistake Without

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.

Age Fear You Appearance

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.

People Happy Weather Comedy

We're so insecure, comedians. 'Did you laugh? Do you think I was funny?'

Funny You Laugh Think

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!'

Myself Down Building Know

The secret of comedy is don't grow up. That's why some comedians are a nightmare, because they never grow up.

Grow Comedy Never Some

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We used to have to convince people we were funny, and it didn't always work.

Funny Work People Always

Sport doesn't do anything for me. And I don't do anything for it.

Me Anything Sport

I am a man who dreams of culture.

Dreams Man Culture I Am

We have a need to make people laugh at things they'd never thought about, make them laugh at things that aren't logical.

People Laugh Never Thought

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 Tradition End Comedy

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.'

Good You People Enjoy

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.

Moving On Business You Moving

Most stand-up is incredibly boring. It's time for people to do something else.

Time People Boring Something

I'm always trying to do anything between comedy and horror.

Comedy Always Trying Horror

I want to create a world where all the rules are different. It should be magical to enter.

World Rules Want Create

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.

You Yourself Laugh Sometimes

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.'

You Painting Looking Think

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.

Home Back Three London

It's not immediately categorisable. I don't know what to say when anyone asks what the 'Boosh' is.

Know Say Anyone Immediately

Adapting a book doesn't mean the book stops just because you've made a film out of it.

You Book Just Because Mean

With the 'Boosh,' we were trying to do this strange, weird thing that had its own language and visual style, and it wasn't really what the powers that be wanted.

Style Language Weird Strange

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