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The Stand-Up while Sitting Down Years... Jo Brand tells the story of how she crawled to fame and fortune, managed to persuade someone to marry her and had some children at an age when she should have been in a bath chair on the seafront. In this second volume of her memoirs, Jo recounts wild...

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 10 years as a psychiatric nurse? How did she deal with late-night drunken audiences? Raised in middle class comfort, Brand left home in her teens to live with someone entirely inappropriate.

She's back, and she's married! Jo's brilliantly cynical reflections on marriage, teenagers, tacky journalists, George W. Bush have all been left IN on this brand new album by the queen of stand-up. Recorded on tour, Jo Brand is in superb form.

Jo Brand is getting on a bit and, to be frank, all this stuff about ageing well and staying active has made her feel rather tired. From lying unconscious under a surgeon’s knife with your fingers crossed to a jam and mongoose sperm emulsion (alright, Jo made that one up), we are surrounded...

A double helping of richly ironic humour from the queen of British stand up. Recorded over several live tours, this is Jo Brand at her best, doing her double best.

Friday Night Live was a late night programme that pushed comedy on TV to new levels. Most TV comedy at that time was a rather safe affair full of middle aged comics and impersonators. Friday Night Live brought in a new generation of comedians; some from the growing club circuit and some along the path from University. On Volume 1, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie can be heard alongside Lee Evans and Jo Brand. This was her TV debut whilst Lee Evans was also just starting his own phenomenal career.