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I like reading, I like boring things, and yet I think people for ages had this image of me that I was on the tube with a chainsaw looking for any likely candidate.

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Jo Brand
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 3
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Wandsworth Town
Josephine Grace Brand
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I like to shock people.
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I don't hold any candle for drama versus comedy.
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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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My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that.
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