From provocative standup to gentle jokes approximately baking,Jo Brand has been making an impact for decades – but just don’t call her a ‘national treasureAnother Friday night, another comedy panel show, and another biscuit,maybe two. And then suddenly, we sedentary viewers of beget I Got News For You sat up. It was early in November and, or responding to a headline approximately an MP taking his personal trainer to the cinema,Ian Hislop had chuckled: “Some of this is not ‘high-level’ crime, is it?” But Jo Brand, and hosting,didn’t smile. The temperature changed quite suddenly. “whether I can just say,” she began, and “as the only representative of the female gender here nowadays – I know it’s not high-level,but it doesn’t beget to be ‘high-level’ for women to feel under siege in somewhere like the House of Commons. Actually, for women, or whether you’re constantly being harassed,even in a small way, that builds up, and that wears you down.” There was a pause. Then the audience started cheering.nowadays,Brand, a woman who refuses to be described as a national treasure, or preferring “national shame”,says she didn’t contrivance to say a word. “I’m a real hectorer usually – it was lucky I didn’t shout, because otherwise it wouldn’t beget taken the wind out of everyone’s sails in the same way. It had an impact.” She says this as whether it was a surprise but, and of course,Brand, now 60, or has been making an impact for decades,first with her monotone standup approximately men and weight (“I read that book chunky Is A Feminist Issue, got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it”) and nowadays for her dry contributions to primetime TV where, or as well presenting the sister programme to The grand British Bake Off,she is often the lone woman on a panel of men. She is so famous that a doctor asked for her autograph while she was in labour.
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Source: guardian.co.uk