The problem with comedy audiences - it's like the Coliseum - when they see someone struggling, they don't feel altruistic towards them. They feel slightly repulsed by it. Jo Brand More Quotes by Jo Brand More Quotes From Jo Brand I must be an anorexic because an anorexic looks in the mirror and sees a fat person. Jo Brand fats mirrors looks I never ever take into consideration the consequences of my actions until it's too late. Jo Brand consideration action too-late 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. Jo Brand woods different remember I think some people ramp a side of themselves up for performance purposes. Jo Brand purpose people thinking I think there's a far more general audience now because I've done more populist stuff on telly. Jo Brand done stuff thinking My mum taught me to knit when I was a child, and I turn to it, for some weird reason, when I'm feeling depressed. Jo Brand taught feelings children My preference is swimming in the sea. I find the sea is more liberating, wild and good fun rather than plodding up and down a pool. Jo Brand swimming sea fun No one I know is actually so rude as to tell me I've become duller since having children. But I'm sure they think it. Jo Brand rude children thinking Occasionally, some sitcoms still stereotype women - the old dragon or the dolly bird - but on the whole we've moved away from that. Jo Brand stereotype dragons bird I find it difficult to judge myself, but people say that I have become a bit more socially acceptable over the years in terms of my material; which apparently at the beginning - though I never really intended it to be - was man hating and now is just a bit more cuddly. Jo Brand hate men years 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. Jo Brand differences tea people 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. Jo Brand vegetables pay might 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. Jo Brand real struggle people I swam at school a lot. Long-distance swimming in pools, and diving, then when we moved to Hastings when I was 13 I used to swim in the sea all the time; I loved it out of season and when it was rough. Jo Brand swimming distance school I think actors go along a continuum from Simon Callow down to kind of Ross Kemp, and I like to think of myself as the Ross Kemp of comedy. He's very good in 'East Enders' because he plays a version of himself. I think I can play a version of myself - that's about all I can do. Jo Brand east play thinking I think my comedy, the put-downs I do to hecklers, are the accumulated bitterness of years of people feeling that it's perfectly acceptable to make a comment on your appearance when they don't even know you. Jo Brand people years thinking I used to do bell ringing in Benenden church. It was really good fun, actually. My best friend's dad was the local vicar, and so it was expected as her best friend that I would go to church every Sunday with her. Jo Brand sunday dad fun I was really, because I thought it was extremely excruciating when I watched a tape of it, that my husband taped for me and I never watched it again after that. Jo Brand my-husband tape husband I wasn't one of those hideous children who make their parents sit through hour-long performances when you're seven. I didn't do anything like that thankfully. Jo Brand parent long children 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. Jo Brand posh ingredients terrible
