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
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.
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
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.
diaries miserable used
I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.
intimate-relationships mouths lashes
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?
faces runners
Let's face it: I am not a professional runner.
gigs nasty difficult
It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.
splits small-packages hospitals
Privatisation splits hospital services into increasingly small packages.
nasty knows
When you get to know someone, you find there's something nasty in their woodshed.
ingredients posh terrible
I'm a terrible sort of non-fussy eater, really. I don't like posh food very much, and the more ingredients something's got in it, the less I tend to like it.