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Jo Brand, Edinburgh Fringe review: an hour of anecdotes and one-liners that need a bit more bite.

16:36 20 August 2015

Jo Brand is going back to the Edinburgh Fringe for the first time in around a decade. Taking few nights off from presenting her Great British Bake-Off  spin-off, An Extra Slice, she has used new catchphrase to liven up her act. "How about, 'Innocent until proven… male?'" she asks.

 

Being one of the pioneers of feminist comedy, she used several good anti-male one-liners such as “My husband never learned to drive… in my opinion.”

 

This is a rambling hour of anecdotes, autobiography, advice, and one-liners. She talked about her nursing days, her children, a harrowing experience at the hands of Trinny, Susannah, and a pair of tweezers.

 

She also talked about getting older where she share her new text message abbreviations for older women: “TLL: Tena Lady Leaked.”

 

This is a work-in-progress and the links between sections are still rather shaky. There are flashes of her darker, angrier and more alternative side but the whole thing lacked a bit of Brand bite. "I'm not scary anymore, I'm nice," she said at the start. Too nice, perhaps.