Branded Humour

Two nights ago I had the pleasure of hearing the wonderfully droll Jo Brand at a WACL (Women in Advertising and Communications – London) event at Le Meridien Hotel on Piccadilly.

It was my first time at a WACL event and to my pleasant surprise, men were allowed in too. I had visions of being back at school – no boys allowed – but thankfully some testosterone was permitted – even if they found Brand’s humour quite hard to stomach at times. I liked watching the blokes squirm a little.

Brand was on true top form, cracking her usual self deprecating range of jokes – my personal favourite being her gag about plaiting her unshaved bikini line before a charity swim.

I then met her properly outside having a fag and we bonded over Dulwich village - where she lives and my boyfriend is from. “Big up the south east London massive” was our parting phase despite my Mancunian roots…

She is a legend.

And by the way, WACL is cool. I direct that at all those male media types who joke that it stands for wide arsed something lesbians. Fact.