Jo Brand

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Career

Brand used the stage name "Sea Monster" when she first began her career in comedy. She appeared on the Saturday Live television show as part of the British alternative comedy movement, spent in London alternative comedy clubs in the 1980s, and was first on the British alternative comedy troupe. She and fellow comedian and comedy club owner Ivor Dembina owned a flat together.

The brand's early style involved her cracking jokes in a bored monotone one line at a time, with pauses in between. Many jokes included references to celebrities and public figures, drawing a lot from pop culture and the media. Brand has stated that she drank heavily before her first gig, was mocked throughout, and received no applause at the end of the set. Her Doc Marten boots, along with her long legs, caused rumors that she was a lesbian.

Brand narrated Laughter & Tears: The Les Dawson Story, a documentary tribute to Les Dawson, which was broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in October 2007.

On March 30, Brand participated in Channel 4's Comedy Gala, a benefit show held in aid of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital.

In the British live-action film Horrid Henry: The Movie (2011), the Demon Dinner Lady appeared. She also performed a voice over for the 2011 pantomime Aladdin of the Lyric, Hammersmith Theatre.

Brand judged the first-ever Class Clowns competition at Edinburgh's Festival Fringe in August 2015. She also announced the winner of the Gilded Balloon on the night.

The More You Ignore Me brand has produced a film version of her book The More You Ignore Me. She will appear in the film as well.

Brand became a resident panelist on BBC monologue show The Brain Drainage in 1993, alongside Tony Hawks. When she appeared on Channel 4's own series, she continued to be her main stand-up writer. Brands have produced several solo television series as well as on television shows such as Jo Brand's Commercial Breakdown. She appeared on Absolutely Fabulous's "New Best Friend" (1994) and then appeared on Star Spell, a spin-off from Hard Spell in 2004.

Her television success grew with guest appearances on shows such as Have I Got News for You and QI to the point where she became the most popular guest on the latter, appearing in a total of 34 episodes. Brand, as a fan of Countdown, fulfilled her aspiration when she was invited to appear in the show's "Dictionary Corner" as the celebrity guest. Richard Whiteley's widowhood made her a friend and attended his memorial service in York Minster shortly after his 2005 death. She has appeared on Countdown as a Dictionary Corner visitor 88 times.

Brand appeared in a special episode of What Not to Wear in 2004, where fashion gurus Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine gave her a makeover.

Brand appeared on Play It Again on March 25, 2007, where she was required to learn how to play the organ in fewer than four months. This was in preparation for Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor for an audience of 8,000 people at London's Royal Albert Hall, the country's second largest pipe organ. She performed "Dear Lord and Father of Mankind," a favorite hymn of her youth, at a church service in Benenden, Kent, and accompanied dancers at Blackpool Tower in order to put her skills into practice. Her only musical experiences prior to this were experiences with piano and violin lessons.

Brand appeared in the first celebrity version of the Comic Relief Does Fame Academy. She appeared on Comic Relief Does The Apprentice in 2007 as a celebrity contestant. In 2009, she was also a participant of Let's Dance for Comic Relief, another Comic Relief charity, and she was named Britney Spears in the final. She has also served as a judge on the show. Brand appeared in The Great British Bake Off's special Comic Relief collection in January 2013.

On The Paul O'Grady Show and The One Show, Brand has been a fill-in host. Brand co-created, co-wrote, and co-starred in the BBC Four sitcom Getting On starring Joanna Scanlan and Vicki Pepperdine, for which she received the 2011 Best TV Comedy Award from the British Academy of Film and Television Association. Peter Capaldi and Susan Tully's collection is a sarcastic and realistic look at the NHS's current state, set in a geriatric ward.

On the BBC Two series The Speaker, Brand appeared as a judge alongside John Amaechi and Jeremy Stockwell in April 2009, charting the hunt for "Britain's Best Young Speaker."

Brand's Big Splash, a television show in which Jo Brand performed a stand-up routine and visited people with a passion of water and was produced by her production company, What Larks, in 2011. Productions.

On the ITV show Splash, Brand was a judge in January 2013 and 2014. Leon Taylor and Andy Banks appeared alongside him in January 2013. .

On January 14, 2014, Brand unveiled an episode of The Great Sport Relief Bake Off, a charity spinoff of The Great British Bake Off. In February 2015, she also appeared on The Great Comic Relief Bake Off in which she appeared for the first time.

Brand is the host of The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice, which premiered on August 8, 2014. From August 2015 to a fourth from August 2017, a second series aired from August 2016.

Brand co-wrote and appeared as Rose in a Sky Arts comedy pilot named Damned in 2014. The show was created for a complete series by Channel 4, which premiered in 2016; its second series premiered in 2018.

Jo Brand's Cats & Kittens has been broadcasting on Channel 5 since 2017. Kitten Rescuers is on Netflix in the United States.

In a program titled Jo Brand: No Holds Barred, released by Alan Yentob, documented Jo's life and work, as well as contributions from several of her comedy coworkers.

Brand became a competitionant on Taskmaster in 2019.

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Awards and nominations

• British Comedy Award 1992: Top comedy club performer
• British Comedy Award 1995: Best stand-up comic
• British Comedy Award 2010: Best female TV comic
• BAFTA 2011: Best Female Performance in a Comedy Role
• British Comedy Award 2012: Best female TV comic