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HOW WE MET: JULIAN BARRATT & NOEL FIELDING
Independent on Sunday, August 2005

JULIAN BARRATT:
When I did stand-up, Noel used to come to my gigs. I didn't really know who he was, but I used to see him there with his funny haircut. The first time we really met was when I had gig in Chalk Farm. Someone had dropped out and I said he should fill in. He did something before I went on, and he was pretty amazing. That was really annoying and I slightly regretted asking him to do it. We drove to his house afterwards and he said that I could come in but I'd never be allowed to leave. I told him that was all right - I didn't have much on. So that was how it started.

The more I do this, the more I realize that chemistry like we have is quite odd. Our styles are similar but come from a different place, so they fit together quite well. We're both into odd imagery and wanted to make a world of strange characters. I suppose we're trying to capture the kind of magic that cartoons have.

Noel is very upbeat and optimistic and talks a lot. I don't - I'm more guarded. We're opposites, but that's good. If he'd been a bit reticent, weird and twitchy like me, we'd end up sitting in a room with silences building up between us. He just keeps talking, so it works. I try to control everything and get worried all the time on set. He's more free and easy but he can't read maps, he can't drive, he can't do any of that, so I have to do it. Although all that ends up going in the show because the characters we do are similar to the differences between us. All the annoying things we make into a joke, a kind of therapy.
It's a bit like being in a band. Stand-up's a lonely trade - on the surface it's social, but you're really on your own. I didn't really like it. I like the dynamic of a double act. If I hadn't met Noel I'd probably be making things that were a bit more normal or real: he always wants to go into the weirder places. But then I like horror stuff and ghosts and strange creatures.

Like any relationship we usually argue about silly things. I'm a bit like a dad, while Noel's like the wife - a bit ditsy. Someone was saying that our show's like a psychedelic George and Mildred. When he's getting dressed up, I'm usually saying hurry up, we've got to be out of here. It's quite old fashioned really. We do shout at each other, get a bit angry and strop off. But we make up immediately. It helps to shout now and again. It only happens if we're tired or have been locked in together for seven weeks. I mean, I probably see Noel more than anyone. He even creeps into my dreams - his pointy little face haunts me in my sleep. Am I ever going to be safe?

NOEL FIELDING:
The first time I saw Julian do stand-up I thought he was amazing. I tried to speak to him but he was very weird - serious, odd, slightly aloof. I probably freaked him out by bounding over. The next time I saw him I was with five friends who were girls. I think this gave me more credence, so we went for a drink, and the next day he rang me up to see if I wanted to write a TV show.
We became mates at the same time. We have different styles, but our voices and faces are good together. You can't plan stuff like that, and it's difficult to find someone you connect with when you're writing. It's luck. When we get together to write, it just happens, even when we're getting on each other's nerves, or depressed. We once wrote a scene about being on a fishing boat: we were both really hacked off and depressed and didn't have much time, so we rushed to finish it and then parted. We read it the next day and it was one of the best scenes we'd ever written.

I've learnt a hell of a lot from Julian. He really wants to be the best he can; I'm not sloppy but when I think of a new idea I'm not that interested in the old ones. But he's really good at getting an idea and making it better - he'll keep persevering, trying to get the story into shape and I'll be wanting to add more ideas to make it weirder. In the end it works really well. I've learnt from that, and I think he's learnt how to be a lot more free.
We're both quite extreme. I'm not moody in general but when I am I smash things. He runs away when I do that. We both really lose our temper. I think I kicked a door in his face once. There's no point in coming to blows about the show - whether Mod wolves should ride mopeds is not worth a fight - but it usually happens when we're really tired and stressed. When we were nominated for the Perrier Award, it was so stressful. We knew we had to do a good gig, and we had a fight because I washed one of Julian's white shirts with colours. He said I didn't even know how to wash and I said I didn't see him washing anything. We were fighting over shirts. That's wrong, but quite funny.
Because of the age difference, there's a big brother thing going on. If anyone starts on me he really goes mad. He had to put up with me being quite ill for a year, which meant I couldn't drink alcohol. We were on tour and another comedian got annoyed because I wouldn't have a drink, so when he was on stage he slagged me off. Julian went mad. I thought he was going to hit someone. I like that about him. If anyone says anything about him when he's not there, I find it really offensive. He's quite protective; I think I'm the same.

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UPD: А Ли Мак говорит, не ссорятся xD
"What we did is we shared a flat for 3 years at the Edinburgh Festival. So every year we'd go in together and share a flat for the festival, so in total it was like 3 months."
"It was incredible to watch as well, because what I found fascinating was that I was doing a show at the time with Caterine Tate, a sketch show. And I realized you don't live with the people you do a show with, because you're together too much. So she got her own place and I was with The Boosh. But they did live together and they did not argue whatsoever. They got on all the time. There was no conflict whatsoever. And I would say me and Catherine were arguing every 15 minutes. And I was jealous of the fact that they seemed to get on."
- Lee Mack, 2021, discusses living with The Boosh on Gaby Roslin's podcast. (ep. #25)