Jo Brand: I come from an era when women like me were made to feel like pariahs
No-nonsense comedian Jo Brand talks about her career, the challenges of being a woman in comedy and why she backs a domestic abuse charity
22 December 2020 • 6:00am
Jo Brand has worked with Refuge, a domestic violence charity, for more than 20 years
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Jo Brand is busy telling me that people are often surprised when they meet her. “What I get is quite a lot of: ‘Oh, you’re not at all how I thought you would be’,” she says. Which is strange, because she’s exactly how I thought she would be: self-deprecating and unfiltered.