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I like to shock people.

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Jo Brand
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 3
Actor
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Comedian
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Nurse
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Stand-Up Comedian
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Wandsworth Town
Josephine Grace Brand
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I pay a bit more than lip-service to health: I don't eat chips or pre-prepared food, and it might be a comedy sacrilege to admit I do like vegetables, fruit and salad and stuff.
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I've never, ever had people being aggressive to me in public or abusing me, and actually quite a lot of men do say to me, 'You're quite good' - though they can't bear to go, 'You're great.'
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I did try when I wasn't doing the singing to do as much comedy as I could because I thought with Comic Relief you are duty bound to anyway.
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Fat people are brilliant in bed. If I'm sitting on top of you, who's going to argue?
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I used to do bell ringing in Benenden church. It was really good fun, actually. My best friend's dad was the local vicar, and so it was expected as her best friend that I would go to church every Sunday with her.
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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 was always being called upon to be an honorary boy alongside my brothers. I don't think I'd be a comic now if it hadn't been for that.
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People can forgive each other.
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It's actually very hard when you're settled in one place to completely uproot yourself and go.
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I think actors go along a continuum from Simon Callow down to kind of Ross Kemp, and I like to think of myself as the Ross Kemp of comedy. He's very good in 'East Enders' because he plays a version of himself. I think I can play a version of myself - that's about all I can do.
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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.
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There are lots of people who believe that caricature of me the tabloids created, so they think they don't like me.
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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.
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When I was a nurse I never had much money, and I was still happy then.
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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.
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I don't like doing stand-up, because I don't like standing up.
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I'm too nervous to eat before I go onstage, and I'll usually eat out after the performance or when I get home at midnight.
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I think some people ramp a side of themselves up for performance purposes.
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I've never trained as an actor. I've always thought I'm not a good actor. I've been told I'm not a good actor by a lot of people.
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You know it's time for a New Year's resolution to lose weight when you step on a talking scale and it says, One at a time, please.
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