Jo Brand
Jo Brand
Josephine Grace "Jo" Brand is an English comedian, writer and actress. Starting her entertainment career with a move from psychiatric nursing to the alternative comedy stand-up scene and early performances on Saturday Live, she went on to appear on The Brain Drain, Channel 4's Jo Brand Through the Cakehole, Getting On and various television appearances including as a regular guest on QI, Have I Got News for You and Would I Lie to You?...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth3 May 1957
space guests ends
Regular panelists on shows can be terrifying. They own that space, and many guest comics suspect they are favoured in the edit, while their own hilarious jokes end up being ejected into the ether.
woods different remember
I remember when Victoria Wood started to come through, and I thought she was great, though she and I are very different in our approach.
thinking years missing
I never think, 'Where am I going to be in a year's time?' That seems to be a sure way of missing the fact that you might be quite happy now.
self-esteem thinking fluid
I think self-esteem is fluid. It's not a fixed state, and so some days are better than others.
nasty knows
When you get to know someone, you find there's something nasty in their woodshed.
book issues feminist
I read that book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue', got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it.
laughing people purity
I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't.
jobs optimistic thinking
I tend to think the world is a bit of a miserable place, so anyone who can add to people's optimistic, cheerful side is doing a good job, which is what I hope I'm doing.
brother fall two
I have two brothers and we basically spent our lives playing in the woods, falling in ponds, getting chased by wasps and riding donkeys that we shouldn't have been riding.
brother school boys
School was great. There were no boys there, which didn't really bother me at the time because I had two brothers, so I was quite pleased not to spend any more time with boys.
school facts general-education
When I was at school you got an overall general education on many things, even just basic facts.
men should-have trying
My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that.
sun married moments
When I got married, the Sun ran the headline: 'Here comes the bride, all fat and wide.' Luckily, it was a few days after the wedding - but it was still hideous to read at a great romantic moment.
female males social
There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.