As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didnt know that funny women existed. It wasnt until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny. – Jenny Eclair
I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. Im quite camp in that respect. – Jenny Eclair
I cant watch other people doing comedy. As soon as somebody starts being funny I have to turn off because it upsets me. I get comedy indigestion. I just hate anybody else being funny. Thats my job. – Jenny Eclair
After graduating from flares and platforms in the early 1970s, I started drama school wearing a pair of khaki dungarees with one of my Dads Army shirts, accessorised by a cats basket doubling as a handbag. Very Lady Gaga. – Jenny Eclair