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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...

HOLD MY CHIPS, THE WOMEN ARE REVOLTING! A darkly funny guide to life as a woman from Britain's favourite comedian. When Jo Brand hosted Have I Got News For You late last year, her calm explanation of the effects of sexism on women to a bemused all-male cast turned into a viral phenomenon. There...

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.

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...

MUST READ-ROMANEN MED MØRKE OG HUMOR OM DEN ALDER, ALLE KVINDER SKAL IGENNEM. METTES LIV HAR BUDT PÅ KEDSOMHED OG KÆRLIGHED. NU BANKER DØDELIGHEDEN PÅ. Mette havde lige set lyset, men så blev det slukket. Af hedeture, hjemløshed og alderskrise. Det meste går den gale vej, og hvad gør...

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.

Kan man lære at holde sit liv ud? ET ÅR I SELVHJÆLPSGRUPPE er en bittersød fortælling om nødvendigheden af at gøre forsøget. Mette fra Østerbro havde altid forestillet sig, at når hun mødte den rigtige mand, fik bil og flyttede ind i det rigtige hus, ville hun være tilfreds. Men hun...

JESPER BINZER OM KÆRLIGHED, ­SØVNLØSHED OG ENSOMHED Jesper Binzer har gået til psykolog og clairvoyant og været i regressions­terapi for at lære sig selv bedre at kende og slutte fred med sine ­dæmoner. I sin nye bog fortæller han også lidt om sine 40 år med D-A-D. Men mest taler...