Julian Barratt Quotes

I love entertaining people and making them laugh. It's my favorite thing to do.

I've never considered stand-up. Luckily I'm given great lines to say. I'm not sure how great my timing would be if I actually had to come up with my own jokes.

Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true.

If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.

You come to my comedy show to be entertained.

A stand-up comedian will never be the life of a party. Instead, he will be the guy who is standing at a corner and observing people.

Most of my show is true; like, 90% of everything I say on stage is true. I just have to find the way to make it funny - that's the difficult thing.

I love doing comedy. I find comedy quite hard work. Comedy's underrated, I think, by actors, you know? It's difficult to get it right and get it funny. I really enjoy doing it. I kind of wish I'd done it more. I can't complain. I've had a fair crack of the whip.

Stand-up comedy is a raunchy profession.

I enjoy doing comedy for the fact that you go to work and you laugh. That's a good combination.

Comedy is wonderful when you really nail it and you hear people laughing, but it's not always that easy.

Oh, I love stand-up.

For my stand-up, I always have my notebook with me and if something strikes me, I'll write it down.

I made a living out of being a class clown.

Comedy, when it works, is light on its feet and has the illusion of complete spontaneity: as if there is no film, no camera. You are standing there experiencing it all in real time. This illusion, I believe, is why so many people think comedy is easy.

I hated stand-up.

There's an art to comedy.

I just want to make people laugh, and I want to do that the best way possible.

I've been making people laugh for 40 years, so I know how important it is!

My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige.

I don't get up, get dressed, go out, and think, 'Okay, I gotta find eight jokes.'

I started comedy in, like, 1998.

I am not a joke-teller. Stand-up, I couldn't do.

I just try to deliver the laughs every time I get the opportunity.

I've been at it since 1967, and I still love it. There is nothing quite like making people laugh.