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I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.

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Jenny Eclair
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 16
Actor
Comedian
Novelist
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Jenny-Clare Hargreaves
Stand
Trained
Actress
Punk
Fell
Actresses
Poetry
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Convincing

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There should be more booing in shops and restaurants and places like that when when the service is bad. If you've had a poor breakfast in a hotel, you should put your knife and fork down and boo.
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Well, I really don't like heights. I don't get on the top deck of a double-decker because that's a bit high for me. I always feel that I'm going to hurl myself off, so heights are a problem.
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I can't stand folk who are all snobby about reality TV.
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I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager.
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My older sister is bossy, my brother is a stirrer and me - well, I am perfect!
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My daughter has always had a strong sense of her own identity. From the day she was born her father and I were in love with and in awe of her and still are.
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As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny.
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I'm very bad at having heroes. I don't rate anyone particularly highly because I'm so snide and competitive and not very nice.
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If I do go to the beach there have to be certain rules: it can't be a pebbly beach, there has to be some shade and there has to be a beach bar. I don't want to go off the beaten track.
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I know the new comedy god is surrealism, but it doesn't touch my heart.
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I have always had a need for attention but didn't plan to be a comic.
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I've got this horrible feeling that I'm one of those people who'll always have to flog their guts out to get anywhere.
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I am very short-sighted, and if I don't like a situation I take my glasses off.
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I love fashion, but I don't come from a background of loving clothes, and I remember feeling badly dressed from a young age.
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I think as time goes by you'll get female comics who are weirder - you'll get a female Mighty Boosh.
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I can't watch other people doing comedy. As soon as somebody starts being funny I have to turn off because it upsets me. I get comedy indigestion. I just hate anybody else being funny. That's my job.
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I've got a hat face. My mother always said I've got a hat face
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I can eat a man, but I'm not sure of the fiber content.
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