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
healthy flags obesity
I'm not a flag waver for obesity. It's not healthy, and you have a crap life because there is such a downer on it.
computer worried wells
I'm a Luddite with computers, and I'm slightly worried about being hacked as well.
kent
I'd love to live in Kent but it's all a question of work.
brother boys thinking
I was always being called upon to be an honorary boy alongside my brothers. I don't think I'd be a comic now if it hadn't been for that.
three gigs nervous
I used to get nervous about three weeks before a gig... now I've managed to condense it down to a manageable ten minutes.
long care approach
I have a utilitarian approach to dressing; as long as I quite like it and it covers me up, I don't care what it is.
standing
I don't like doing stand-up, because I don't like standing up.
drama comedy candle
I don't hold any candle for drama versus comedy.
pieces dirt humans
I cannot abide anyone treating another human being like a piece of dirt, whatever the context.
food weight-loss chocolate
Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.
children two want
Again, with two small children it's incredibly hard to commit yourself to anything because you're just getting interested in it and someone comes along and goes I want Thomas The Tank Engine on, and screams the place down until you put it on.
character mean play
With proper acting, I don't know what I would play - I got sent a script for a play, and it said in the notes that my proposed character was 'hideously fat and ugly'. That made my day. I mean, I do know I am no oil painting.
husband littles potato-chips
My mum and my husband are from Irish backgrounds, so we have a lot of potatoes. Chips, mashed, boiled, new potatoes, I love them all. Even the slightly wonky ones like Duchess potatoes that go up in a little spiral.
mother attitude father
My father was an engineer and my mother was a social worker, and they met as young socialists. That probably tells you everything you need to know about my attitude to money - I've never really been bothered about it.