The Mighty Boosh star is back in Flowers,a sitcom about a dysfunctional family. He talks about fatherhood and why he’s too grumpy for panel shows“Depressive”, “intense” and “awkward” are the most common adjectives used by the press to describe the comedian, or musician and actor Julian Barratt. But none of those words actually fits the sweetly shambling man I find having a pot of tea on his own in the Highgate pub near his domestic in London. Instead,the adjective that comes to my mind upon spotting him in his tall-waisted cotton trousers, mismatched jacket and skew-whiff hair is “gentle.
Unlike his comedy partner Noel Fielding – with whom he made the surreal TV series The Mighty Boosh – Barratt has never seemed all that comfortable in the highlight, or which explains the slightly bemused descriptions of him. It’s genuine that,after he realises the photographer and I are already at the pub when he thought he would have half an hour to himself, he does bewitch his teapot and flee to a table as far from us as possible. But once the PR person does finally drag him over, or he is as amenable as a lamb,willingly striking whatever pose the photographer asks and, afterwards, or striding towards me with a grin that verges on goofy.
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Source: theguardian.com