Quotes from Jenny Eclair


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I only socialise with people that I have a lot in common with.


People often ask why comedy is harder for women, and the reason is because a tampon will sometimes fall out when you're on stage. Blokes don't have that worry.


Women are more emotional, and it's natural to talk about it.


I've just got crap hair. Although I inherited a lot of stuff from my dad, including giant knees, I didn't get his good, thick hair. I got my mother's thin, wispy, non-event hair instead.


I can't 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. That's my job.


As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny.


If I do go to the beach there have to be certain rules: it can't be a pebbly beach, there has to be some shade and there has to be a beach bar. I don't want to go off the beaten track.


I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.


I think my siblings sometimes have to defend me within their social circles - they are both barristers.


I think I might actually die of showing off. It'll be on my headstone - 'Cause of Death: Showing Off.'


I'm very bad at having heroes. I don't rate anyone particularly highly because I'm so snide and competitive and not very nice.


I love fashion, but I don't come from a background of loving clothes, and I remember feeling badly dressed from a young age.


I know the new comedy god is surrealism, but it doesn't touch my heart.


I have always had a need for attention but didn't plan to be a comic.


I have a very solo career. I only write with people that I really adore.


I don't think I'm successful.


I don't do marriage. I think it's incredibly naff. And I don't like vulgar displays of ostentation.


I can't stand folk who are all snobby about reality TV.



For me, being a woman suits what I want to talk about and what my audience wants to hear. Maybe I'm a dying breed.