Jo Brand on Friday Live (UK)

[DistantCousin]

Just been reading her book "Can't Stand Up For Sitting Down" and it was interesting to read the background of this performance, and how she approached her early steps into comedy.

[ischa91]

funny, i never laughed as hard as i did to this. but i dont really find her as hilarious in contemporary things.

[nealcollins2006]

Definatly just you gerard you stinkin fenian tramp

[Gerardomalley]

Is it just me or has she got hotter as she got older?

[jumpyourbone]

she's not the sea monster, she's my hero[ine]

[MrTonyInchpractice]

tho' i agree about the announcer-voice, dang it she has stage presence, and through stillness, too!

[eggypegles]

I love her voice, but in this video she talks like an announcer

[mulrine83]

good evening I'm the sea monster :p

[gagalover2k10]

I thought my slumberland orthopaedic bed was going to be very comfortable when I bought it,'cos the man in the shop said to me "on this bed,you'll sleep like a baby",I didn't realise this would mean I'd wake up crying every 5minutes and wetting the bed 4 times a night.Of course the continuous nocturnal winging and the incontinence didn't go down a treat with the boyfriend,he left me. HAHAHA jo brand sooooooo funny I said this today in school and made every1 laugh I even used the bored pissed of

[sbasey]

Talentless Pork

[Dave70100]

@sbasey Boring.

[Dave70100]

@sbasey Boring comment.

[cluenobody]

she reminds me of my aunt for some reason.

Jo is rather funny

[sandgrownen]

I remember watching this when it was first on TV.

I was breast feeding my son at the time and I laughed so much he kept getting milk squirted in his eye.

Poor lamb.

He is 6 foot 5 now so no harm done.

[sail1948]

An amorphous blob. An unfunny tub of lard.

[NatWest14]

@sail1948  are you a sad, miserable gargoyle??

[sail1948]

@NatWest14 Am I a sad miserable gargoyle? No. I'm an intelligent sentient being. I also have extraordinary good taste, that is to say I dont find that jelly on legs Brand to be even remotely funny. Lets face it, jokes about eating and fucking with a liberal sprinkling of misandry have been done to death.

[CelluloidGrrl]

@sail1948 They HAVE been done to death, but on the new alt. comedy circuit in the 80s, it was a breath of fresh air. Bad habits die hard, though I feel her new stuff is slightly more versatile.. yet still a little chunky. Excuse the pun.

In all seriousness though, the amount of people who give reasons for not liking her "fat and unfunny". Why does fat come into the equation for a reason not to like her?

Get over your ideas of image perfection and crawl out of Atkins' arsehole.

[sail1948]

@CelluloidGrrl  Crawl out of Atkins arsehole?!! I'm not familiar with anyone named Atkins so it follows that I'm not familiar with her/his arsehole.

[Oohyoutouchmytalala]

@sail1948 I assume s/he means Robert atkins, the creator of the famous diet m'love.

[sail1948]

@Oohyoutouchmytalala Oh The diet Atkins. I think I'm right in saying his diet eventually killed him. Theres a lesson there for Brand just not sure what it is.

[Dave70100]

@sail1948 But they hadn't in 1986 dimwit.

[sail1948]

@Dave70100 Hadnt what?

[mrmalade]

good evening i am the sea monster!

[LoviingRap]

boring

[mdincaa3]

...and ate it. <3

[brawlerwoods]

Woman are immoral and arn't funny...ever

[TravellingMan79]

@brawlerwoods Learn to spell Nimrod!

[filmgeek22]

wow she was so deadpan wen she started out. Gotta love her!

[naobe5]

fucking brilliant!

[666jimmysmusicgirl]

@throttlejockey77 shes the fucking buisness you bastard, i hope you've taken into account that this is her first tv appearance so shes bound to be fucking nervous

[GordonMorrice]

Jo actually performed as "The Sea Monster" for a few years.

[MrHeslopian]

She's very deadpan here, and sounds a bit like a bingo announcer. She's much more casual now.

[Sawrattan]

Wow I never watched her at the beginning, here she's much more monotonous (than she still is)

[krob2003]

Jo, I loved going to your shows when I lived in the UK - wish you would visit and do a show in Sydney.

[daniellecusworth6]

she sounds like a bingo caller :')

not an insult though! , she is my idol (L)

[LightLife4]

She was funny then, and STILL is now.

[ilovehellokitty92]

I like her, but here she like ends every sentence with the same kind of like 'tone', if that makes sense? It gets annoying after a while.

[martinnitus]

@ilovehellokitty92.

It's an upwards inflection. It gets annoying yes!

[LightLife4]

If you read her book 'Look back in hunger' she says it's because it's because she didn't know how to deliver the jokes.

[Sawrattan]

@ilovehellokitty92

"like" is annoying too ;) only kidding.

if you watch her now she doesn't do that tone so much anymore.

[freakboy2891]

I also heard a segment of a radio interview where she states its impossible to be racist against white people. Wierd. She could have fooled me. Grew up white in a majority black and latin community, wasn't easy to say the least. She should probably stick comedy not social issues.

[00ztheman]

Could she have been making reference to a predominantly white society? I would consider it a sad, but true statement if it were in reference to where I live.

[freakboy2891]

Good point.

[LightLife4]

Actually freakboy2891 she can. There is BOTH freedom of speech AND opinion.

[emmawrighttome]

what's with....all the....pauses? and i can't believe we just watched 6 minutes of the exact same speech pattern for every single sentence! having said that i do like the current jo brand

[andrewscottuk]

1988 actually.

[touristinfo121]

OMG I SAW HER TODAY IN SUPERMARKET!

[cockingasnook]

I heard on the radio yesterday, that she used to use this monotonous tone so she could remember what she was gonna say better - and she was nervous alot.

[Urmotherrocks]

Jimmy Carr doesn't come anywhere near Jo Brand, he never will. Jo Brand is hilarious!

[FazAndAdz]

no...Jimmy Carr is about seventy four thousand times better than Jo Brand. She drags out the same old jokes about how she doesn't like her husband and she goes on about herown weight and it's just so repetitive and listless. she's not a good comedian in my books.

[ProopaluciousBitch]

omg shes so ace.

Xx

[kunstinflammen]

the Cambridge Diet OMG! HAHAHAA

[Windowpanebunny]

Ah this is awful! Her jokes are all the same she's basically got one joke and polishes it with her children later on.

Myinfamy DON'T compare her to Jimmy Carr his jokes are clever,layered and well deliverd and funny while Jo Brand's depressive and self obsessed.

[myinfamy]

The female Jimmy Carr... delivers deadpan monotone observations about daily life which firmly places her in comedy manna territory.

[EedDeryi]

A misogynist is someone who has a hatred of women you retard.

[tingttting]

it should be misandrist

[EedDeryi]

yep that's the word. I don't consider her to be though, just the way people like Jimmy Carr etc aren't mysogynists

[openheartzoo]

good evening, i am the sea monster!

[strav12]

WOW! That was awesome! Great comic genius in there!

[Zakith21]

this is brillaint, i love her style, the slower speech is great

[cinnamonteak]

mostly her dead pan delivery!!! lol

[slowloris]

Her technique is awesome... I love the monotone voice it so suits her for some reason... although a few (very few) of the jokes seem a bit dated I think she did amazingly well for 1986. She seems like a very progressive comic.. although I could just be talking out my arse what do I know?

[J3NiiC]

your not talking out your arse lmfao. Your completely right :)

[houtakiboy]

She was brilliant from Day 1

[EedDeryi]

Mmm. You could just be a fucking idiot.

[RedCircusGirl]

my god, thank god she sorted out her vocal pattern..this is really irritating.

really like her now tho

[beastybeatsy]

It's weirdly melodic though. I like it. But you're right, she's better now.

[weselefigara]

is it only me, or is her voice just beautiful? :) i love it.

[frickinradical]

OMG she looks so different...I LOVE JO she is amazing!

[furyplum44]

I love her!!!

[scarletmarie22]

she seems very nervous but the deadpan way it comes across works to her advantage. I think this is from 1988 rather than 86

[MrJak925]

Then why did you watch the video then..? -_-;

[electriciansmate]

Jo Brand is full of shit! Ha, ha!

[MrsLovett112]

This is absolutely hilarious!

[BigJoe2711]

Brilliant! :)

[PlavOciZena]

excellent

[MaximumMartin]

v good

[snipergoth]

shut up shes JKS

[DEFACTO9]

Well done JO!!

Good performance off camera too by the way!

[antarcticdirtclod]

what idiot marked this comment as spam?

[Harkz0r]

Interesting to see how her style has developed - it seems a little too monotone here and her intonations are repetitive, but her more recent performances have the nonchalant sarcasm carried off to perfection.

[bzylizzy]

jo brand is fab.......

[lukemsnboi]

this some funny shit

[vim92]

OMG she FUCKING hilarious!!!

[QuornishxXx]

I'm goin to see her in December can't wait!! will be one life ambition acheived, next on the list: meet Stephen Fry! :P

[GatorM]

She looks like David Mitchell in this clip.

[QuornishxXx]

She does lmao. Love em both though :D I'm glad she doesn't do the whole gap inbetween thing now

[spittingimage4005]

this can't be from 1986 friday night live didn't start till 1988 and ended in the same year

[spittingimage4005]

boring

[Plutonar]

Less boring than all those overly enthousiastic and supposedly very excited dumb American stand-up comedians.

[henenp]

lmao ahahahahaha i want more comedians like this nowadays, they dont make em like this anymore

[bpmacd]

men right are so bad at sex right

[MvyMkr]

We sat next to her at The Gielgud (sp?) Theatre when we went to see "God of Carnage!"

She said Happy Birthday to my Dad! Yey!

[unstoppableforce]

I get that it's part of her act, but the monotone delivery gets slightly annoying. It sounds like she's announcing the football results on radio 5live.

[310BPM]

I think self-deprecating humour is great.

If you like Jo Brand, try on Debra DiGiovanni.

[errafloater]

thanks for the tip!

[sazzyboo1]

lol

"i didnt think it would mean that i would wake up every 5 mins crying "

[batmanofni]

Good Evening I'm the Sea Monster

[xeniast]

lol she is so awesome

[batmanofni]

What did I say, I as only quoting Jo. I think she's brilliant.

[QueerSwede]

Jo is the best, I need more!:)

[ElziiKandii]

She should of varied her jokes, so they werent just about her weight, and that accent was soo annoying.

[boscowally]

prefer her on QI, dont think a whole routine should be based on how fat you are. You can do better than that jo

[ravenousxxtoxin]

she stole that first joke from Lee Evans

[RickOShea123]

how the fuck did she steal it of lee evans when this is clearly in the 80s and evans never became famous until mid 90s

[TheReverendMaxRipple]

Would that be the same Lee Evans who stole the whole of Norman Wisdom's act?

[FulchesterUnited]

I love all the "stealing" jibes... even Shakespeare wasn't original, there's only so many ways to tell a joke.

[christiandbutor]

you're dumb ravenousxxfoxin

[Bobmcd0]

i hate the accent shes using. arghhhhh!

[dragonlee90]

She's a lot prettier nowadays. In fact, she is quite attractive now. Not here though... OH NO

[carriesking]

Aboslutely hilarious - Jo Brand is the queen of sarcasm and bitching!!!

[oyagain]

she definitely got better at it... her intonation is weird! good to look back at history though, now and then.

[masameus]

The intonation, I actually quite like it :D It makes her sound bored and sarcastic in a funny way. Teenage girls talk like that these days, don't they.

[nicolaristhebest]

she is mint

[auroraginga]

Wow you should probably be put down... Do you have a gun ?

[gaypanda]

I love Jo Brand but she's looking like morticia adams (with a haircut) and how she speaking is like my local bingo caller in town!

[MintyPonse]

I absolutely love Jo Brand, she came to where I live to do a show live but I didn't go because i'm an ID-EE-UTT

This is one of the funniest sketches I have ever seen. I almost died with laughter at the "setting sail" comment. Her dry humour tickles me in exactly the right place.

LOVE YOU JO

[hotrodII]

HILARIOUS!

[bubbletelescope]

Jo is a very funny woman but why on earth did she sound like she was reading the pools results? I was fully expecting to hear "Hibernian 2 Queens park rangers 0"

[beastybeatsy]

EI love it. It sounds like a poem...

[mtrengland]

when do qpr play hibernian? they are from different countries!

[bubbletelescope]

I have no idea and I don't play the pools so I guess i'm no Jo Brand.

[SCurtiss88]

could be in the Texaco Cup

[bubbletelescope]

No Scurtiss I was just thinking of queen of the south. I knew there was queen something on the pools table coz i've heard it when the telly's been on in the background. And it definitely wasn't queen victoria lol

[SCurtiss88]

or even a uefa competiton

or you even could have been thinking of the Scottish team "Queen's Park" rather than Queen's Park Rangers

[bubbletelescope]

I don't know hun i'm just making excuses for myself lol to avoid appearing thick

[xavina2k7]

JO BRAND IS THE BEST!!! She makes me laugh like Lee evans does, you two my fav comedians! good on ya jo jo

[Fraud01]

ok its all about her being fat but c'mon, id love to see you right stuff 1% as funny as that, lol

Well done jo brand lol

[higang]

Like Dawn French she has one joke: I am fat and ugly.

wow, there is not a lot of comic innovation or originality there. This is a waste of bandwidth.

[Mikaelia]

Jo is the best, it's really great to see this!

[xoxhanddisease]

i really didnt think this was funny! ok ur fat!GET OVER IT!!!

[jalomy]

least she can make fun of herself

[xoxhanddisease]

yea fair enuff,but she just takes it 2 a hole udr level,she makes her hole act abou it!it gets old

[FaerieCrone]

and you're an idiot but nobody's perfect, are they?

[emmalousmith123]

luv jo she was hilarious on schools out wen she sed her kids were called del boy and gorilla

[sozishere]

Oh My Gosh !

This is brill, where on earth did you find this ?

She did look rather scared, but look at what she turned into !

[MustaPerhonen]

She's really great, but her tone of voice just seems to loop from low - mid - high - low - mid - high, etc... But she's better now.

[benlu123]

I read in 'Sunshine on Putty' by Ben Thompson that this monotone was due purely to stage fright..she was'nt as calm as she looked!

[dannyboy666999]

who care is she was calm or not long as she funny xd

[vervoid345]

Absolutely!

[QueerSwede]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Love her.

[mrtreevers]

Jo is `what you see is what you get` kind of lady, she is so blunt, honest and naturally funny, thanks again for this!!

[KazekFuturi]

Jo is amazing :)

[MintyPonse]

Oh. My. Total. God.

I absolutely LOVE Jo! I was crying with laughter!!

thank you so much!

xxxxxxxxx

[kavvy528]

OMG i thought id seen all jo's stuff but i never seen this! How excellent! Thanks for sharing :D