Jo Brand Quotes

• I have big friends who won’t go swimming because they’re too embarrassed about it. I feel that’s such a shame, because actually people should be encouraging fat people who are exercising to do it, not pointing and laughing.

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• I have friends who vote Tory, and I’m appalled, but that’s not to say they’re not great people in so many other ways.

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• 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.

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• Even when I wasn’t overweight I was never one of those girls or women who wanted to look nice. I always thought it wasn’t important.

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• I like men. They are hugely entertaining, but they have a lot of shortcomings and you just have to bear those in mind.

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• I do say no to lots of things, actually! I know it doesn’t look like it. But I have a tendency to a) be rubbish at saying no, and b) be pushed by some kind of Protestant work ethic.

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• 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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• 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.

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• Who do I like? I am a big fan of French and Saunders – not that that they are particularly stand-up I have to say, but I think they have been great for women and they are of themselves just incredibly funny whether they are male or female.

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• What they did was to make a pilot and it may well go to series at the next festival but I don’t have any news on that. It’s already been on Paramount actually, but as it’s on Paramount it’ll probably be on several more times… hopefully.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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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.

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• So, I kind of rather was hoping that people thought it would have a nice mixture of different topics and it also takes in the fact that I’ve had two children recently.

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• People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn’t. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare.

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• Over the years I attempted to make my style a bit more relaxed ’cause the initial style you couldn’t watch for more than ten minutes without wanting to kill me.

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• One of the guys that used to run it – for some reason I’ve no idea why he used to call me the Sea Monster and I was just looking around for a name and thought that’ll do. That lasted for a couple of years probably.

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• It’s inevitable that if you do okay on something like that you don’t just annoy people, that it will make a difference because it seemed like such a lot of people so, yes I would have to say that it has done.

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• It’s got too much hard work slapping them and telling them to shut up.

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• 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.

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Jo Brand (53)

Birth:	23rd July, 1957
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Comedian, Nurse, Television Presenter, Writer

About

Josephine Grace Brand was born in Wandsworth, London, England. She is an English comedian, writer, TV presenter and nurse. She studied at St Mary's Platt Primary School, Tunbridge Wells Girls' Grammar School, Hastings High School for Girls, and Bexhill College. She earned a nursing degree from Brunel University. She then worked as a psychiatric nurse for ten years. Her role in several films include: Human Traffic, Stephen Fry (documentary), Clubland (only screenwriter), Horrid Henry, and The More You Ignore Me (also writer). Her role in television include: Have I Got News for You (Comedy Panel game), Jo Brand Through the Cakehole (host), QI (Comedy Panel game), Getting On (TV series), Jo Brand's Big Splash (host), and The Great British Bake Off (host). She has written several books include: A Load of Old Balls (non fiction), A Load of Old Ball Crunchers (non fiction), Mental (novel, with Helen Griffin), Sorting Out Billy (novel), It's Different For Girls (novel), Look Back in Hunger (autobiography), The More You Ignore Me (novel), and Can't Stand Up For Sitting Down (autobiography).

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