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Jo Brand
British
Comedian
Born:
Jul 23
,
1957
Comedy
Good
Me
People
Think
You
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I think my comedy, the put-downs I do to hecklers, are the accumulated bitterness of years of people feeling that it's perfectly acceptable to make a comment on your appearance when they don't even know you.
Jo Brand
You
People
Comedy
Bitterness
Feeling
Think
Perfectly
Know
Make
Acceptable
Years
Comment
Accumulate
Your
Appearance
Even
I must be an anorexic because an anorexic looks in the mirror and sees a fat person.
Jo Brand
Mirror
Must
Sees
Looks
Anorexic
Because
Person
Fat
It is unrealistic to expect an entire profession to be completely good. There are bound to be some individuals who are stressed, who are unkind, who are a bit rubbish at their job, who are in the wrong career.
Jo Brand
Good
Job
Rubbish
Unkind
Bit
Some
Entire
Unrealistic
Wrong
Individuals
Bound
Expect
Who
Profession
Career
Stressed
One thing lots of Christians do have in common is that they can't help coming across as smug. This winds lots of people up, particularly because famous Christians pronounce on the life of the poor from their very lovely affluent homes filled with their very lovely families and attractive pets.
Jo Brand
Life
People
One Thing
Pronounce
Winds
Particularly
Attractive
Because
Smug
Coming
Lots
Up
Very
Families
Affluent
Common
Famous
Lovely
Poor
Across
Help
Filled
Homes
Pets
Thing
Christians
I'm sure some cynical people would point to that as the main reason for doing it for a lot of people.
Jo Brand
People
Cynical
Would
Some
Point
Main
Main Reason
Sure
Doing
Lot
Reason
I just don't like travelling very much.
Jo Brand
Like
Very
Just
Much
Travelling
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.
Jo Brand
Sad
You
People
Better
Old
Will
Criticism
Say
Bitter
People Say
Better Person
Make
Read
Because
Makes
Person
Just
Should
Your
Showbiz
Nightmare
By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout.
Jo Brand
You
Drinking
Feeling
Reading
Bit
Tempted
Perfectly
Know
Crying
Well
Bed
Lot
Quite
Quite A Lot
Just
Honest
I don't know really, it doesn't feel like it has changed to me but I think to have to move with the times. Try out different areas and not get stuck in 1978.
Jo Brand
Me
Try
Think
Changed
Out
Area
Stuck
Feel
Like
Know
Times
Get
Move
Different
Different Areas
Really
I find it difficult to judge myself, but people say that I have become a bit more socially acceptable over the years in terms of my material; which apparently at the beginning - though I never really intended it to be - was man hating and now is just a bit more cuddly.
Jo Brand
Myself
Man
People
Judge
Become
Beginning
Difficult
Say
Bit
Though
Find
Hating
People Say
More
Never
Over
Terms
Acceptable
Cuddly
Material
Years
Intended
Just
Which
Really
Apparently
Now
Socially
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
Shopping
Down
Way
Something
Small
Small Children
Had
Since
Go
Get
Intend
List
Children
Wash
Chance
Two
I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully.
Jo Brand
Funny
Death
People
Made
Parents
Hopefully
Bore
About
Supreme
Without
None
How
Effort
Going
Children
Which
Thing
Whatever situation you are in, that is what is normal for you.
Jo Brand
You
Whatever
Situation
Normal
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
Time
Best
People
Revenge
Cold
Say
Eat
Eaten
More
Most
Ready
Any
Just
Dish
Fancy
They Say
By The Time
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.
Jo Brand
Work
Saying
Rubbish
Say
Kind
Some
Tendency
Pushed
Like
Know
Look
Protestant
Lots
Work Ethic
Ethic
Actually
Things
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.
Jo Brand
Great
Vote
People
Other
Say
Ways
Tory
Great People
Friends
Appalled
Who
Many
There have been some very extreme hecklers in audiences whose bile was so hateful and so meant that it would be a bit frightening to think that all I'm doing is jokes and yet someone hates me that much.
Jo Brand
Me
Jokes
Think
Extreme
Bit
Would
Would-Be
Hateful
Hates
Some
Someone
Audiences
Doing
Been
Very
Frightening
Much
Meant
Whose
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.
Jo Brand
People
Big
Swimming
Too
Embarrassed
Laughing
About
Shame
Pointing
Feel
Because
Exercising
Go
Encouraging
Friends
Should
Who
Actually
Fat
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
Me
Women
Comedy
Stage
Sense
Think
Changed
Defensive
Relaxed
Easier
Sexist
Pretty
General
More
General Sense
Underlying
Still
Women Are
Than
Which
Much
View
Used
Less
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.
Jo Brand
Great
Remember
Thought
Approach
Our
Though
Through
Remember When
Come
She
Very
Wood
Different
Victoria
Started
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.
Jo Brand
Women
Try
Men
Power
Arena
Suppose
Felt
Always
Prove
Go
Very
Much
Should
Mum
Deserved
I wasn't one of those hideous children who make their parents sit through hour-long performances when you're seven. I didn't do anything like that thankfully.
Jo Brand
You
Parents
Sit
Seven
Those
Hideous
Through
Performance
Like
Make
Thankfully
Children
Anything
Who
I'd love to live in Kent but it's all a question of work.
Jo Brand
Work
Love
Live
Question
Kent
It's actually very hard when you're settled in one place to completely uproot yourself and go.
Jo Brand
You
Yourself
Settled
Go
Very
Uproot
Place
Hard
Actually
I've seen a lot of women give up after they've had three or four bad gigs in a row. It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.
Jo Brand
Women
Three
Seen
Difficult
Bad
Gigs
Give
Take
Had
Learn
Nasty
Lot
Up
Very
After
Personally
Row
Four
There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.
Jo Brand
Society
Something
Structure
More
Female
Comics
Male
Times
Than
Social
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