People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesnt. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare. – Jo Brand
They say men can never experience the pain of childbirth. They can… if you hit them in the goolies with a cricket bat for fourteen hours. – Jo Brand
I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so theres none of that hopefully. – Jo Brand
The thing I thought about doing it was its Comic Relief and youve got to be funny. So although I did try to sing properly it obviously has hilarious results when you cant sing. – Jo Brand
At an incredibly divisive point in pop history, Donna Summer managed to create an undeniable across-the-board experience of mass pleasure – after Bad Girls, nobody ever tried claiming disco sucked again. It set the template for what Michael Jackson would do a few months later with Off The Wall. – Rob Sheffield