Julian Barratt Quotes

I've been doing stand-up since '89.

I've been doing comedy for 20 years now. I started when I was 13 and I think for the first 10 years I was impersonating other people.

Those early days of comedy are when you get addicted to it.

I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

Stand-up is the foundation to my career. It's what I started out doing.

Podcasts feature comedians being as funny as they can be in a non-censored situation. It's really akin to standup in a way. When you go see a comedian in standup, that is the most pure, unadulterated form of their art.

When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.'

It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.

I love making comedy. I never stopped loving it. I will continue to love it and I can't believe that I get to do it.

Stand-up is kind of like my home base, and doing stand-up in New York is what I like doing most.

I always wanted to be a comedic actor - that's what I wanted from the job - to do comedy and to create my own comedy. But I still love doing stand-up and will probably be doing it forever. I'd love to be an old guy who can't really walk, can't really stand-up, and I have to sit on the stool and tell jokes.

There's tons of dudes - like David O'Doherty, Tim Key, and Alex Horne - I made a lot of friends with people who are really incredible comics.

I started pursuing stand-up comedy in 12th grade.

People who have heard of me have heard of me mostly through presenting and asked, 'Why have you gone into comedy?'

I started doing improv comedy in 2007, and I think it was that that gave me the confidence to try doing stand-up!

Stand-up will always be my favorite and the most important thing that I do. I view everything else as free money.

I don't write anything. It's all done onstage, which is why I always tell younger comics that they just have to go do it. You have to get up, talk, and take a thought or a word and just expound, and you find it in there. I don't sit down and write.

I really like to do comedy, and I did comedy the first 2 years after I graduated college, so I really love it and appreciate it.

I never thought I'd end up doing comedy, but actually, it's been something I've really relished the challenge of and ended up doing quite a bit of.

I don't consider myself a comic but a performer. A comic tells bad jokes.

I was always the class clown; I made my family laugh, and that was when I was always happiest. I grew up listening to stand-up comedians' albums and watching them on TV, on 'The Tonight Show' and Letterman.

Stand-up will always be my first love, and it has been the primary way I've expressed myself since I was 17.

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.