My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that.
From Jo Brand
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.
I thought I was funny as a kid.
I've seen a lot of women give up after they've had three or four bad gigs in a row. It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.
Even when I wasn't overweight I was never one of those girls or women who wanted to look nice. I always thought it wasn't important.
I like men. They are hugely entertaining, but they have a lot of shortcomings and you just have to bear those in mind.
Each generation has a backlash against the generation before.
I think some people ramp a side of themselves up for performance purposes.
I've never, ever had people being aggressive to me in public or abusing me, and actually quite a lot of men do say to me, 'You're quite good' - though they can't bear to go, 'You're great.'
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.
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