The funniest standup I’ve ever seen …
I equally loved Lee Cornes and Nick Hancock. Lee Cornes once did the same set in the first half and the second half of a show at the Comedy Store to see how pissed the audience were, and Hancock was just utterly hilarious.
The funniest sketch I’ve ever seen …
French and Saunders’ old fat blokes who think they’re really attractive to women and spend their time rubbing themselves against furniture while declaring, for example, that the contestants in the Miss World contest are begging for it.
The funniest person I know …
My mate Griffo – who, appallingly, is no longer with us – used to make me laugh till I cried many, many times.
The funniest heckle I’ve ever had …
“Why don’t you put some jam on your shoes and invite your trousers to tea?”
The funniest hairstyle I’ve ever had …
A fairly banal hairstyle but one a pigeon shat on … well, it seemed to make everyone laugh.
The funniest thing that shouldn’t be funny …
It’s always real-life slapstick for me, eg my mum sliding all the way down a muddy hill on her bum after forcing us kids to go out for a walk with her and my dad.
The funniest number …
Everyone knows it’s nine.
The funniest joke I’ve ever heard …
I quite liked one of my daughter’s Easter cards, aged five: “Happy Easter and don’t forget Jesus is dead.”
Jo Brand is interviewed at Leicester comedy festival, Curve Studio, Sunday 10 February
