Performers often can be quite socially inept, you know? And even great comedians are like that.
I don't like talking about myself; I'm not good at analysing myself. I don't want to analyse myself.
I've got a lot of friends with whom I discuss jazz.
I've done interviews in the past where, apparently, I didn't give the journalist any eye contact. I'm a bit shy, yes. I've thought about refusing to do any press at all.
Most comedians are borderline psychotic. It's what makes their work interesting.
If the 'Boosh' was a bit more of a specific thing, or less multi-limbed, we would probably have done it and moved on.
I don't do stand-up anymore.
I write tragedies and things when I'm alone. Chekhovian dramas.
Musicals are just funny to me.
When things start running a bit too well on the tracks, I tend to derail them if I can.
I don't have any friends with cool clothes.
My dad listened to a load of jazz - Mahavishnu, Weather Report, Herbie Hancock.
If you come away from a show thinking of an image, that's as good as remembering a joke. A lot of those shows, like 'The Office,' they are brilliant, but they're not visually interesting.
I love 'Airplane,' and I love 'Naked Gun' and all those films, where you're parodying.
With something that's not based just in comedy, you can be a bit weirder in a slightly realistic way.
We should send a load of bad celebrities to colonise Mars. They would have to mate in space, and then their children would be sent back to Earth in 50 years' time.
Sometimes, you write things that sound really great when you're at home but don't work when you shine the light of an audience on them. Great writing and live writing are two separate things.
Not really a good idea to eat things fans have made because you don't know what state of mind they were in when they made them.
Me and Noel went to HBO once and pitched this really ludicrous idea about us driving around in a haunted car, and they just stared at us. Literally stared at us! It was awful. Luckily, we were together, so we could laugh about it, but if we were on our own, it would have been one of the worst moments ever.
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 I'm developing. Then I do act in a few things, but I'm not really an actor. I'm not a comedian, but I am known for comedy. I just don't know. I feel like I'm a slightly interdisciplinary jack of all trades.
