Julian Barratt

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Julian Barratt Pettifer (born 4 May 1968) is an English comedian, actor, and musician. As a comedian and comic actor, he is known for his use of surreal humour and black comedy. During the 2000s he was part of the Mighty Boosh comedy troupe alongside his comedy partner Noel Fielding. Born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, Barratt attended the University of Reading and first performed stand up comedy while at university. In 1997 he first met Mighty Boosh collaborator Noel Fielding when he attended one of Barratt's solo stand-up gig's at the Hellfire comedy club. After this Barratt and Fielding began performing regular solo stand-up gigs together and they soon realised that they liked each other's stuff and began writing and doing the gigs together. Sometime around 1998 they then performed their first comedy show together in London which was a mix of both stand up and sketch comedy and then in 1998 they took the show, The Mighty Boosh, to the Edinburgh fringe festival and returned again in 1999 with...

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