Jo Brand

Regular panelists on shows can be terrifying. They own that space, and many guest comics suspect they are favoured in the edit,…

— Jo Brand

I suspect most politicians feel overwhelmed because people's lives are a real struggle, full of unhappiness, and you would probably feel powerless…

— Jo Brand

When I was at school you got an overall general education on many things, even just basic facts.

— Jo Brand

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

— Jo Brand

What could be funnier than a fat person trying to run a marathon?

— Jo Brand

I like men. They are hugely entertaining, but they have a lot of shortcomings and you just have to bear those in…

— Jo Brand

Does anyone really go into nursing intending to be apathetic, cold and removed from suffering? I find that very difficult to believe.

— Jo Brand

I have such admiration for single mothers. I simply don't comprehend how you'd cope with that intensity, the lack of breaks, ever,…

— Jo Brand

The reason I used a name was because I was a nurse at the time, and I didn't want my name in…

— Jo Brand

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

— Jo Brand

My mum is bright, ambitious, well read, political and very bolshie: when my dad was conscripted into the Army and posted to…

— Jo Brand

I know there are certain men that hate women or don't like women, and in order to make women feel small, they…

— Jo Brand

Not many women will go out on a limb to make themselves really unattractive and unfeminine so you can get the laughs,…

— Jo Brand

When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexic ward. I sometimes ate as many as seventeen dinners

— Jo Brand

There are lots of people who believe that caricature of me the tabloids created, so they think they don't like me.

— Jo Brand

I just don't like travelling very much.

— Jo Brand

I never think, 'Where am I going to be in a year's time?' That seems to be a sure way of missing…

— Jo Brand

No one I know is actually so rude as to tell me I've become duller since having children. But I'm sure they…

— Jo Brand

Who do I like? I am a big fan of French and Saunders - not that that they are particularly stand-up I…

— Jo Brand

I think it's so easy when you have children just to turn your focus inward on your family and because, when they're…

— Jo Brand

I swam at school a lot. Long-distance swimming in pools, and diving, then when we moved to Hastings when I was 13…

— Jo Brand

Jeremy Clarkson is rather charming, but I can't stomach his public persona. I don't like his casual racism and casual misogyny.

— Jo Brand

Fat people are brilliant in bed. If I'm sitting on top of you, who's going to argue?

— Jo Brand

I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other…

— Jo Brand

It's inevitable that if you do okay on something like that you don't just annoy people, that it will make a difference…

— Jo Brand