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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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Jenny Eclair
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: March 16
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Jenny-Clare Hargreaves
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I don't think I'm successful.
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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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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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Without fake tan I have the skin tones of a dead jellyfish.
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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 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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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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I am best viewed from a distance.
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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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My older sister is bossy, my brother is a stirrer and me - well, I am perfect!
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I still can't set up the ironing-board. A complete Luddite.
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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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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 prefer highs and lows to an even keel. Moderation is never something I've been good at.
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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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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 know the new comedy god is surrealism, but it doesn't touch my heart.
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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 have always had a need for attention but didn't plan to be a comic.
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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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