Jo Brand is one of Britain’s funniest and best-loved comedians. With a sharp eye for the absurd and in her own unique voice she tells her story for the first time.
What possessed her to become a professional comedian in the cut throat world of stand-up comedy after ten years as a psychiatric nurse? How did she deal with late night drunken audiences? Raised in middle class comfort, she left home in her teens to live with someone entirely inappropriate. Her parents were aghast at her uncontrolled behaviour and attempted to rein in her excesses, finally giving up when she demonstrated that she was not headed for the life of a nun. From her early years growing up in a small south coast town with two brothers who toughened her up, to emerging on stage as ‘The Sea Monster’, Jo Brand tells it like it is with wit, candour and a wonderful sense that life can be ridiculous but there's always a funny side.
Celebrity obsession, coming of age and cow shit - an hilarious, poignant and darkly comic novel by the Queen of Comedy.
Alice is five, and convinced she needs five personalities to cope. Her family, tucked in a cottage in deepest Herefordshire, are a bit weird. Her mother Gina is obsessed with the weatherman on the local news and when she climbs naked onto the roof with Alice's pet guinea pig in her arms, she is whisked off to the local psychiatric hospital. Keith, Alice's father, tries to keep calm, but his patience is severely tested by his in-laws. The only thing that gives Alice's hope is her love for Morrissey of The Smiths...
One of the best...
Jo Brand has long been established as one of the best female comics in Britain. Her wealth of television work includes her own shows – Jo Brand's Hot Potatoes (BBC1) and the award-winning Through the Cakehole (Channel 4).
Jo’s been known to have a go at almost anything that’s thrown her way – from a playing (and singing) Sergeant of Police in The Pirates of Penzance, being pawed by Trinny and Suzannah, to facing the formidable Alan Sugar for Comic Relief Does the Apprentice in 2007. That same year, she also learnt to play the organ culminating in a performance to a sell out crowd at The Albert Hall. Did we mention that she also writes books ...?
Jo Brand - Barely Live
Get your hands on Jo's great live show, filmed at London's Adelphi Theatre. To see some exclusive stills from the video, take a look at: Jo's gallery.
