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Jo Brand

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So, my style has hopefully changed over the years and it is more relaxed, and I do tend to smile and have more than one expression these days hopefully - which I didn't at the beginning.


— Jo Brand


#changed #days #expression #hopefully #i

The reason I used a name was because I was a nurse at the time, and I didn't want my name in Timeout and people from working coming along and taking the piss.


— Jo Brand


#because #coming #i #name #nurse

The thing I thought about doing it was it's Comic Relief and you've got to be funny. So although I did try to sing properly it obviously has hilarious results when you can't sing.


— Jo Brand


#although #comic #comic relief #did #doing

There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.


— Jo Brand


#female #male #more #social #society

There are comics who treat women fairly appallingly. But I can be great friends with them because I don't tend to do that ticking of boxes: it can make life too simplistic.


— Jo Brand


#boxes #comics #fairly #friends #great

They say revenge is a dish best eaten cold, but for most people, by the time it's ready to eat, they just don't fancy it any more.


— Jo Brand


#best #by the time #cold #dish #eat

When you get to know someone, you find there's something nasty in their woodshed.


— Jo Brand


#get #know #nasty #someone #something

Wild men are so enormously attractive.


— Jo Brand


#enormously #men #wild

With two small children, I haven't had a wash since 2001 so the chance to go shopping is way down the list. It is something I do intend to get.


— Jo Brand


#children #down #get #go #had

You don't really see ugly people that are old, or a bit grotty and smelly, in the media. If a Martian came down, they would think we were all tall, thin, attractive and wealthy.


— Jo Brand


#bit #came #down #martian #media






About Jo Brand

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Did you know about Jo Brand?

She thus faced her first live audience with a bursting bladder. She was part of the British alternative comedy movement working in London alternative comedy clubs and appearing initially on the Saturday Live television show. She then worked as a psychiatric nurse for ten years at the South London Bethlem Cefn Coed Hospital in Swansea and Maudsley Hospital in South London.

In 2003 Jo Brand was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy. Commencing her entertainment career with a move from psychiatric nursing to the alternative comedy stand-up scene and early performances on Saturday Live Jo Brand 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.

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