Jo Brand Quotations | Page 2

I went on the pill when I was 16, put on four stone... so that proved to be a very effective contraceptive.

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

Inside every fat person there's a thin person looking to get out - They've just eaten them

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.

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.

So, my style has hopefully changed over the years and it is more relaxed, and I do tend to smile and have more than one expression these days hopefully - which I didn't at the beginning.

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.

I think some people ramp a side of themselves up for performance purposes.

I think the key attributes for a good speaker are someone that's articulate and someone that puts a fair amount of humour into what they do.

What they did was to make a pilot and it may well go to series at the next festival but I don't have any news on that. It's already been on Paramount actually, but as it's on Paramount it'll probably be on several more times... hopefully.