Jo Brand Quotes

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Jo Brand

Profession : Comedian

Birth : July 23, 1957

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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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 still get blokes who say, 'Oh you hate men, don't you?' And I say, 'No, I just hate you.' I really love doing that, just to see the look on their faces.

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I love doing stand-up. It's so self-contained - you go there, you do it, you go home - but with telly, there are too many people involved with it with opinions. You have a product, and everyone wants to change it.

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To me, a politician's job is to listen to constituents' problems and try to sort them out.

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I suspect most politicians feel overwhelmed because people's lives are a real struggle, full of unhappiness, and you would probably feel powerless to do anything about it.

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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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With proper acting, I don't know what I would play - I got sent a script for a play, and it said in the notes that my proposed character was 'hideously fat and ugly'. That made my day. I mean, I do know I am no oil painting.

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You look across the board at comedy quiz shows, and they are mainly hosted by men.

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If I am totally honest, I would have to say that 'Allo 'Allo!' was not my cup of tea, even though lots of people loved it. For that reason, I find comedy fascinating. There is a huge difference between what people find funny.

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Television provokes strong opinions, and sometimes we try a bit too hard to appeal to everyone.

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I read that book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue', got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it.

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The funny thing is, I don't actually think of myself as fat at all. I don't think I am. Not really.

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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?

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I never think, 'Where am I going to be in a year's time?' That seems to be a sure way of missing the fact that you might be quite happy now.

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I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.

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I think there's a danger that we're moving towards a state where the people we are expected to admire are almost not human anymore, and I don't like that. I prefer it when someone looks like a nice person, and you think, 'I could have a laugh with them in the pub.'

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I cannot abide anyone treating another human being like a piece of dirt, whatever the context.

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I've no interest in fashion, shoes, handbags, or sweaty shopping.

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I've never been a fan of euphemism.

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