Jo Brand

Links:

Roles:

Contestant

Biography

Josephine Grace Brand (born 23 July 1957), better known as Jo Brand, is an English comedian, writer, presenter and actor.

Starting her entertainment career with a move from psychiatric nursing to the alternative comedy stand-up scene and early performances on Saturday Live, she went on to appear on The Brain Drain, Channel 4’s Jo Brand Through the Cakehole, Getting On and various television appearances including as a regular guest on QI, Have I Got News for You and Would I Lie to You?.

She also makes regular appearances on BBC Radio 4 in programmes such as The News Quiz and Just a Minute.

When Brand began her career in comedy, she went by the stage name the “Sea Monster”. She was part of the British alternative comedy movement, working in London alternative comedy clubs in the mid-1980s, and appearing initially on the Saturday Live television show.

In 2007 she appeared as a celebrity contestant on Comic Relief Does The Apprentice.

In 2009 she participated in Let’s Dance for Comic Relief, dancing as Britney Spears, and reached the final.

In 2011, Brand presented Jo Brand’s Big Splash, a television programme where she performed a stand-up routine and visited people with a love of water.

Since 2014 she has been the presenter of The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice.

In 2014, Brand co-wrote and starred as Rose in a comedy pilot for Sky Arts called Damned. The show was commissioned for a full series by Channel 4, airing in 2016; its second series aired in 2018.

Since 2017, she has presented the Channel 5 series Jo Brand’s Cats & Kittens. The show is available in the US on Netflix as Kitten Rescuers.

In 2019, Brand became a contestant on Taskmaster.

[Source: Wikipedia, 28/02/2021.]