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It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.
Jo Brand
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Jo Brand
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 3
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Josephine Grace Brand
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I took my husband to the hospital yesterday to have 17 stitches out - that'll teach him to buy me a sewing kit for my birthday.
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I'm not a flag waver for obesity. It's not healthy, and you have a crap life because there is such a downer on it.
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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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Over the years I attempted to make my style a bit more relaxed 'cause the initial style you couldn't watch for more than ten minutes without wanting to kill me.
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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 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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No one I know is actually so rude as to tell me I've become duller since having children. But I'm sure they think it.
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Suffice to say, many women find their first appearance on a comedy panel show to be their last. Second chances seem to be given less often to the female of the species.
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Everything becomes magnified at night. Sounds travel in a different way, it's dark, and everything seems far more spooky.
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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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People can forgive each other.
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I like to shock people.
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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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Punk allowed women to stop looking feminine. Oh, the relief.
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I think the key attributes for a good speaker are someone that's articulate and someone that puts a fair amount of humour into what they do.
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I think it's difficult, if you're a quite private person like I am, to write about your life very intimately.
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I don't hold any candle for drama versus comedy.
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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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Regular panelists on shows can be terrifying. They own that space, and many guest comics suspect they are favoured in the edit, while their own hilarious jokes end up being ejected into the ether.
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I thought I was funny as a kid.
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