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I think there's a far more general audience now because I've done more populist stuff on telly.

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Jo Brand
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 3
Actor
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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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When I got married, the Sun ran the headline: Here comes the bride, all fat and wide. Luckily, it was a few days after the wedding - but it was still hideous to read at a great romantic moment.
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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.
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Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect.
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Having children is fab. They keep me young and make me get up in the morning.
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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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It's actually very hard when you're settled in one place to completely uproot yourself and go.
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How do you conduct an intimate relationship where no one ever loses it? Where no one ever lashes out, where no one ever smacks anyone in the mouth?
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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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I must be an anorexic because an anorexic looks in the mirror and sees a fat person.
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When you get to know someone, you find there's something nasty in their woodshed.
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I think a lot of women are incredibly tough and they're just really admirable. Especially the way that, given what they've got, they just manage to carry on.
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I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't.
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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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I think some people ramp a side of themselves up for performance purposes.
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I'm a real Kentish maid, you know.
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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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One of the guys that used to run it - for some reason I've no idea why he used to call me the Sea Monster and I was just looking around for a name and thought that'll do. That lasted for a couple of years probably.
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An overweight guy went to the doctor who advised him to try a keep fit DVD. But the guy said he couldn't be bothered. “Well” suggested the doctor, “try something that leaves you a little short of breath.” So the buy took up smoking.
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I swam at school a lot. Long-distance swimming in pools, and diving, then when we moved to Hastings when I was 13 I used to swim in the sea all the time I loved it out of season and when it was rough.
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