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Jo Brand

July 2024

  • Kyle Gass performing with Tenacious D.

    Who’s laughing now? The gags that derailed comedy careers

    Kyle Gass’s ill-judged Donald Trump assassination jibe has put Tenacious D on ice. Will he be for ever cancelled, or bounce back like Billy Connolly and Jo Brand?

April 2024

  • Jo Brand

    Weatherwatch
    Scientists and comedians join forces to get climate crisis message across

    Video series launched in which comics translate climate science into down-to-earth language

January 2024

  • Mark Maslin photographed by Amit Lennon for the Observer New Review.

    Climate scientist Mark Maslin: ‘We have all the technology we need to move to a cleaner, renewable world’

    The professor of Earth system science on the hottest year on record, using humour – with a little help from Jo Brand – to get his message across, and why there are reasons to be positive

November 2023

  • Jo Brand and Tom Allen on The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: all the crispiest Bake Off bits

    A look back on the puddings, cakes and cackles that made this series a blast. Plus: the Drag Race finale. Here’s what to watch this evening

October 2023

  • ‘My Sunday wardrobe? Same as every day: something black that looks like a sack.’

    Sunday with Jo Brand: ‘I love telly. I’m slightly obsessed because my mum was a bit puritanical about it’

    The comedian and writer enjoys a short walk in the park followed by several hours in the cafe then listens to classical music

February 2023

  • Female ducks bred for the production of foie gras

    ‘Torture in a tin’: Miriam Margolyes and others urge ban on foie gras imports

    Exclusive: Celebrities sign letter to Sunak after reports that proposed restriction on delicacy may be dropped

December 2021

  • Jo Brand Grace Dent comfort eating podcast

    Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
    S2 E10: Jo Brand, comedian

    Grace’s guest on this episode of comfort Eating is the comedian Jo Brand

November 2021

  • Funny and informative … Harriet Kemsley, Bobby Mair, Sara Pascoe, Jo Brand and Ahir Shah.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Jo Brand delivers a very funny lecture about growing old

    Sarah Pascoe returns with highly entertaining Comedians Giving Lectures. Plus: George Clarke helps out more homeowners. Here’s what to watch this evening

January 2020

  • Jo Brand

    Jo Brand to face no further action over battery acid joke

    Broadcasting watchdog ends investigation into remarks that triggered complaints last June

August 2019

  • Rebecca Nicholson

    Names in the news
    Jo Brand: such a mistake to take comedians too seriously

    Rebecca Nicholson
  • Jo Brand

    Jo Brand's battery acid joke inappropriate for Radio 4, says BBC

July 2019

  • Josie Long

    Can comedy survive in an age of outrage?

    Comedy is under scrutiny as never before. So when is a joke not a joke?

June 2019

  • Jo Brand

    Jo Brand’s joke: are we all now disgusted of Tunbridge Wells?

    Hephzibah Anderson
    An off-colour joke was met with confected outrage, a sign of our times
  • Nigel Farage and Jo Brand dispute<br>Undated composite file photos of Nigel Farage and Jo Brand. A comment made by the comedian about throwing battery acid at politicians is being assessed by the Metropolitan Police following an allegation of incitement to violence. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Thursday June 13, 2019. Brand made the joke on Victoria Coren Mitchell’s Heresy radio programme on Tuesday night, and was criticised by Farage among others.See PA story SHOWBIZ Brand. Photo credit should read: PA/PA Wire

    Police to take no action against Jo Brand over battery acid comments

    Met drops probe as David Baddiel says BBC should not have edited out comment

    • Jo Brand apologises for 'crass and ill-judged' battery acid joke

    • Police investigate Jo Brand's battery acid remark

    • Farage furious over Jo Brand's 'throw battery acid not milkshake' joke

May 2019

  • Jo Brand

    Jo Brand says #MeToo is 'something we need to keep pushing at'

    Speaking at Hay festival, comedian recalls a charity event where a man forced his tongue into her mouth

March 2019

  • Clockwise from bottom left: Oprah Winfrey, Victoria Wood, Issa Rae, Tina Fey, Jo Brand, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Jenji Kohan, Zeinab Badawi, Lynda La Plante, Julia Davis, Sharon Horgan, Shonda Rhimes.

    Screen queens: the funny, fearless women who revolutionised TV

    Phoebe Waller-Bridge exploded into our living rooms with Fleabag, her vicious comedy about an angry, awkward woman. As it returns, Guardian writers pick their TV heroines

February 2019

  • Jo Brand

    The funniest thing
    Jo Brand: ‘Why don’t you put some jam on your shoes and invite your trousers to tea?'

    The standup, writer and actor on the things that make her laugh the most
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