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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
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Jenny-Clare Hargreaves
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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 still can't set up the ironing-board. A complete Luddite.
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I am best viewed from a distance.
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I'm a schizophrenic mix of wannabe glamourpuss and absolute slob, and my style is very much magistrate-meets-barmaid.
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Family is the one thing that is definitely not disposable.
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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 my siblings sometimes have to defend me within their social circles - they are both barristers.
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I can't stand folk who are all snobby about reality TV.
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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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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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I wouldn't say I was grumpy. It's more pathological - I have seismic tantrums. I get red in the face and cry at least three times a week, and I have to lie down and have a nap afterwards.
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Without fake tan I have the skin tones of a dead jellyfish.
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I prefer highs and lows to an even keel. Moderation is never something I've been good at.
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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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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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Well, I'm not good with sliminess. I hate the thought of creatures that have slime on them or creatures that leave a slimy trail. At home, the sight of a slug can bring up my breakfast.
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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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