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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Most stand-up is incredibly boring. It’s time for people to do something else. Julian Barratt Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I want to create a world where all the rules are different. It should be magical to enter. Julian Barratt Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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.’ Julian Barratt Read Quote
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. Julian Barratt Read Quote
