In conversation with... Jo Brand | BFI Comedy Genius

Writer, actor and stand-up comedian Jo Brand visited the BFI Southbank to talk about her career as part of the BFI's Comedy Genius season.
Drawing from her background as a nurse, Jo Brand made painfully honest observational comedies such as Damned and Getting On, set, respectively, in the worlds of social services and the geriatric ward. Emerging from the furnace of alternative stand-up, her laconic and biting comedy blew apart preconceptions of what female comedians could be, and she has always proudly remained her own uncompromising self.
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[@TSBS986]

What’s not to love about this amazing woman. Her humour is stellar but more so she is SUCH a good soul.

[@mulberrytoast]

She’s just brilliant

[@barbaraschain9260]

Love her..just honest & down to earth..👍😃

[@inka4pinka]

Jo is such an authentic and lovely woman. People who bully, heckle and judge her define themselves, not Jo. And if they’re offended - fuck em! Jo for Prime Minister!

[@kennethhymes9734]

Love Jo Brand. Re electro shock, old days, the US. It was in wide use in places like North Dakota, on non verbal people with disabilities, into at least the 1990s. I truly appreciate Brand's voice in destigmatizing people with experience in these institutions.

[@SunnyBeetle1922]

A remarkable lady who takes things in her stride while putting certain people in their place that really need it. Humble and hillarious.. Thank you for making me laugh today Jo and also for raising awareness of mental health too❤️❤️❤️❤️👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@juana9483]

Absolutely loved since the 80's, she is just the best female comedian ever for me, and also so afable and fun and interesting to listen to. ❤

[@maryj5593]

Really happy to have found this episode, thanks Jo

[@eleidal]

I love getting to see John Lloyd be a Mensch. Clearly they respect each other greatly. And what to say about Jo? She's an icon.

[@galesito1733]

I remember watching her first TV appearance and I became a fan immediately. Who'd have thought back then that she'd become a national treasure?

[@richardjmacdonald]

To all the people who don't find her funny....why are you searching for her name on you tube? For all those offended by her or her comments.....she's a comedian making a joke....that's what comedians do....if you dont like the jokes I refer you.to my previous sentence.

[@christopherjohngwynneknowl2185]

What a comedian

[@narelleworks8448]

A pity about the missing clips of her work.

[@LunaTdC]

❤️ Jo Brand!

[@enekervis]

I ❤ Jo Brand!!

[@amyleigh8394]

Omg I read all of the Malory Towers when I was a kid!

[@mrhufflepuff6443]

From the sounds of it the joke Jo recently made about battery acid was completely inappropriate and I am in no way condoning it but I think the point needs to be made that if a comic makes an inappropriate joke every now and then doesn't mean they're a bad person... This is just my opinion, I've seen lots of reports about this joke but don't know the content so if someone could explain the joke I would appreciate it just so that I could understand why it's caused such an uproar... Thanks

[@agin1519]

Wowsers, this comment section. What a cross section. I don’t suppose you get fence sitters coming to hour long BFI videos.

[@NowFunStarts]

I like her on panel shows, and i like her demeanor..Worry about Johnson not her.

[@tiptoe1413]

I wonder if Jo Brand was wondering what John's problem was. She's responding warmly. Was he sick?

[@annurch558]

I like her. She’s very good

[@JIMBO8472]

lovely lady, guy from essex here

[@RWernsing]

Love

[@ramdonko6661]

Comments R A mer i can, JB is Great - this is an interview, good work Jo!

[@ashleybellofsydney]

All ofJo's videos on KZbin are 5 years old. Has she done anything lately?

[@highdownmartin]

Pull yourself together John. You’ve actually got notes!!

[@sugarbabylove1000]

He seems to be talking too much about himself.

[@thierrydevant7690]

Nothing wrong with Jo Brand, keep going.

[@ryanrtw]

John Lloyd and his work is brilliant, but he's totally disconnected from this interview, save for flinging a few pleasantries in Jo's direction...

[@sedwards7428]

parents that can send their child to public school buys careers -- they can go straight to the top..or very near the top... (look at jack whiteall today). The person hosting this does not do a great job, poor Jo livens it up as only she can and puts up with him.. The host is full of himself.

[@joanketelby752]

I always thought comedy was suppose to be cruel. I remember seeing Joan Rivers and the response to her first joke of the evening was laughter and boos. Like Jo Brand's sitcoms.

[@davidockley2987]

Thankfully, battery acid was not mentioned.

[@philmayers4891]

who in england is going to make these people pay. the world is watching. dont be cowards. your place in world politics depends on your actions. rise up and overthrow the traitors

[@gwangi64]

Jo Brand "Comedy Genius". That's actually funny.

[@tiptoe1413]

Take your hand out of your armpit, John.

[@Iwazgonnasaythat]

Comedy ‘genius’ - battery acid ‘- me thinks not!

[@igypop.]

what would she say if someone actually did this to one of the PM candidates?

[@bobdawkins7473]

A Disgusting human being both inside and out. Just because someone looks like they were acid attacked as a baby, doesn't mean she can go around telling other people to look like her.

[@highdownmartin]

Getting on is brilliant. You’re just a bunch of tossers

[@MarthaMansbridge]

Grow up!! She made a bad joke - that happens! Doesn’t make her the Devil reincarnate!

[@sedwards7428]

shame about the host: he is pompous and full of himself. His parents bought his career -- by sending him to public school...thats it.

[@1Thedairy]

I hated the way she treated Carol Thatcher after she made a ‘derogatory’ remark whereby she insisted she should be sacked by the BBC and she was. There is quite a nasty side of her.

[@willsnow6057]

There is a nasty side to Carol Thatcher

[@greymouser8659]

T&S pair of old slappers

[@jeanpaultaylor5070]

"Comedy genius"! Do us a favour.

[@mikedee1771]

Genius? Sometimes a bit funny. That's it.

[@bobrail2647]

Not even a bit 💩💩💩

[@stevedoughty1941]

I managed 49 seconds.

[@DOCTORDROTT]

not a funny comedian .

[@jane---489]

*_What an utter disgrace Jo Brand is. Inciting dangerous violent behaviour because you don't like or agree with another_* *_persons point of view or opinions. It's her who's actually talking 'far right fascism ' here. She need to check her big-fat-_* *_hypocrisy ..._*

[@damianbylightning6823]

Comedy genius. About as funny as bollock cancer. Her career has been kept afloat by public subsidy - BBC and old Channel Snore. Without them, she'd have crashed. Please, can we get rid of BBC - it will only create more 'comedy geniuses' like this.

[@davidfoulkes8907]

BELLRINGER MORE LIKE BELLEND....☺ACCCCIIDD!!!!

[@wakeupyouaredreaming]

Comedy genius my arse, Nigel would agree.

[@iand3028]

I used to think she was funny.

[@terencethomas9715]

In a pathetic attempt to revive her nowadays sinking prolile this odious woman disrespects every victim of a real acid attack. How could you you selfish creature!!!!!

[@scottrobson6783]

i'm prepared to cut her some slack....with a mug like that....she's suffered enough

[@meirwise1107]

I can think why she was called the c monster....if c stands for circumference!