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I've never been a fan of euphemism.

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Jo Brand
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 3
Actor
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Wandsworth Town
Josephine Grace Brand
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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 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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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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I just don't like travelling very much.
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I think some people ramp a side of themselves up for performance purposes.
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I think I'd concentrate on young women - particularly girls at school - and I would try and build into school curriculums much more education about relationships and how girls (and boys) can handle them: stuff about consent and that sort of thing.
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There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics it's something to do with the social structure of society.
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The thing I thought about doing it was it's Comic Relief and you've got to be funny. So although I did try to sing properly it obviously has hilarious results when you can't sing.
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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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Wild men are so enormously attractive.
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I think people tend to believe that women who are successful are probably neglecting their children, possibly a bit hard-nosed and that they don't really support other women very much - that they're men-haters and ball-breakers. I've certainly been on the receiving end of those 'compliments' for most of my career.
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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 remember when Victoria Wood started to come through, and I thought she was great, though she and I are very different in our approach.
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I buy smoked mackerel in a vain attempt at being healthy. I do actually really like it, and you don't have to cook it, which is handy.
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Let's face it: I am not a professional runner.
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When you get to know someone, you find there's something nasty in their woodshed.
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There's still this underlying image of women that they should fulfil a certain role. It's no accident that a lot of men who are a bit misogynistic tend to say things like 'get back to the kitchen' or 'why aren't you at home looking after the kids'.
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There are problems with nursing - such as the issue of nurses all having to do degrees these days. But that doesn’t mean to say the entire infrastructure of nursing is falling about and that it is populated by unfeeling psychopaths, which is, frankly, the implication sometimes.
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Occasionally, some sitcoms still stereotype women - the old dragon or the dolly bird - but on the whole we've moved away from that.
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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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