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Jo Brand


British
May 3, 1957
Comedian
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Each generation has a backlash against the generation before.


Jo Brand
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I'd love to live in Kent but it's all a question of work.


Jo Brand
Tags: Work Love Live
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I must be an anorexic because an anorexic looks in the mirror and sees a fat person.


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I read that book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue', got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it.


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Tags: Got Through Read
There's lots of different feminist groups. It's not as straightforward as just looking like a plumber.
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I think self-esteem is fluid. It's not a fixed state, and so some days are better than others.


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Jeremy Clarkson is rather charming, but I can't stomach his public persona. I don't like his casual racism and casual misogyny.
Jo Brand
Tags: Like His Public
I'm too nervous to eat before I go onstage, and I'll usually eat out after the performance or when I get home at midnight.
Jo Brand
Tags: Home Get Out
No one I know is actually so rude as to tell me I've become duller since having children. But I'm sure they think it.
Jo Brand
Tags: Me Think Know
I think the key attributes for a good speaker are someone that's articulate and someone that puts a fair amount of humour into what they do.
Jo Brand
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.
Jo Brand
Tags: Think Always Been
And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at work as a psychiatric nurse.
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Tags: Work Me Had
I've always liked to think I could do anything I wished as well as - if not better than - a man. But I wasn't very good at rally driving.
Jo Brand
Tags: Good Think Always
I suspect most politicians feel overwhelmed because people's lives are a real struggle, full of unhappiness, and you would probably feel powerless to do anything about it.
Jo Brand
Tags: You People About
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
Tags: Smile More Than
There are two types of people in this world: one who opens a packet of biscuits, has one and puts the rest back in the cupboard, and one who eats the whole packet in one go.
Jo Brand
Tags: People Who World
I pay a bit more than lip-service to health: I don't eat chips or pre-prepared food, and it might be a comedy sacrilege to admit I do like vegetables, fruit and salad and stuff.
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Tags: Food Health Like
It's a video release as well so I have to be perfectly honest and go, probably not specifically for DVD, but there are extra bits on it that aren't on anything else, so as exciting as that sounds.
Jo Brand
Tags: Go Well Anything
I often tell audiences at the start of my shows that I'm not gay because I've got petitions from lesbian groups saying 'Can you tell people you're heterosexual because you're giving us a bad name.'
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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.
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My mum is bright, ambitious, well read, political and very bolshie: when my dad was conscripted into the Army and posted to Libya, she convinced some general to let her go with him. I don't know how she managed it.
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Tags: Dad Know Very
I love doing stand-up. It's so self-contained - you go there, you do it, you go home - but with telly, there are too many people involved with it with opinions. You have a product, and everyone wants to change it.
Jo Brand
Tags: Home Change You
Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press knows that, on the whole, there is a huge amount of inaccuracy, value judgment and the use of a crowbar to insert editorial bias that reflects the current political leaning of that particular paper.
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Tags: About Who Had
There's a general sense that women are more relaxed and less defensive in comedy than they used to be. I think it's easier than it was but underlying it all there is still a pretty sexist view of women on stage, which to me hasn't changed that much.
Jo Brand
Tags: Women Me Think
I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment. You shouldn't; you should be getting out and doing any kind of exercise you can. You don't have to run a marathon, but you just have to up your activity levels.
Jo Brand
Tags: You Just Out