The best Jo Brand’s documentary movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Jo Brand’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Jo Brand.
Dying Laughing
6.8/10
The craft, creative process and complicated lives of Stand-up Comedians.
Fry and Laurie Reunited
7.3/10
Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie are to reunite for a TV special to mark the 30th anniversary of their partnership.
The Kate Bush Story: Running Up That Hill
7.8/10
This documentary explores Kate Bush's career and music, from January 1978's Wuthering Heights to her 2011 album 50 Words for Snow, through the testimony of some of her key collaborators and those she has inspired.
Victoria Wood In Her Own Words
8.1/10
A look back at the life and work of one of Britain's greatest comediennes, featuring interviews with those who worked alongside Victoria.
Stephen Fry's 100 Greatest Gadgets
6.5/10
Gadget aficionado Stephen Fry chooses and presents his 100 all-time favourite contraptions, from the tin opener, trouser press and answering machine to the apple peeler, iron and iPod
Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive
8/10
In 1995, Stephen Fry was performing in Simon Gray's West End play, "Cell Mates." After three days, he walked out of the production. Sitting in a garage, his hand on the car ignition, he contemplated suicide for two hours, before fleeing his home country for the European mainland. It wasn't until this frightening episode that Fry was diagnosed with manic depression, or bipolar disorder, a psychological condition that sees its sufferers oscillating dangerously between dizzying heights of mania and gutting troughs of prolonged depression. This 2 part documentary unfolds like a personal journey of self-discovery. Fry confronts his medical condition by consulting experts and others who have suffered the disorder (including Richard Dreyfuss and Carrie Fisher). This is a valuable documentary, and, having been acquainted only with Stephen Fry's bubbly TV persona, a fascinatingly intimate character study.
Jo Brand: No Holds Barred
Alan Yentob looks into the life of comedian Jo Brand, marking a diverse career which began in 1980s stand-up comedy and has moved through writing, performing and presenting.
