Jo Brand
Jo Brand
Josephine Grace "Jo" Brand is an English comedian, writer and actress. Starting her entertainment career with a move from psychiatric nursing to the alternative comedy stand-up scene and early performances on Saturday Live, she went on to appear on The Brain Drain, Channel 4's Jo Brand Through the Cakehole, Getting On and various television appearances including as a regular guest on QI, Have I Got News for You and Would I Lie to You?...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth3 May 1957
Jo Brand quotes about
vegetables might pay
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.
personal-opinions white people
My personal opinion is that you can't be racist towards white people. You can be prejudiced about them, but being prejudiced isn't an illegal act, whereas being racist can be.
nurse abuse audience
And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at work as a psychiatric nurse.
work-ethic looks rubbish
I do say no to lots of things, actually! I know it doesn't look like it. But I have a tendency to a) be rubbish at saying no, and b) be pushed by some kind of Protestant work ethic.
nursing practice nurse
A good culture in a hospital can absorb and manage a few bad nurses, but once the culture becomes bad in itself, bad nursing practice is much harder to hide.
fats persons
Inside every fat person there's a thin person looking to get out - They've just eaten them
nurse dinner sometimes
When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexic ward. I sometimes ate as many as seventeen dinners
genius lines rubbish
There are so many cliches associated with mental health - such as the 'fine line between lunacy and genius' - which are, on the whole, a load of rubbish.
great-friend treats boxes
There are comics who treat women fairly appallingly. But I can be great friends with them because I don't tend to do that ticking of boxes: it can make life too simplistic.
ex-boyfriend funny-relationship night
My ex-boyfriend can round last night, which was weird because I didn't know he was in a coma.
too-late action consideration
I never ever take into consideration the consequences of my actions until it's too late.
diaries miserable used
I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.
kent
I'd love to live in Kent but it's all a question of work.
grandma people lucky
I used to get a lot of people saying 'Oh, you are such a lucky granny.' But the fact of the matter is you can be a grandma at 35 these days.