Thought For The Day: Jo Brand

"The BBC used to do this thing called Talent Dinners. They said, ‘we want to hear everyone’s ideas on how we can improve the BBC’. I turned to Jeremy Clarkson and said ‘you can fucking take him off for a start’."

Jo Brand, talking at the Hay Festival, quoted in the Telegraph.
Full disclosure: The Telegraph didn't print the f-word.

Thought For The Day: John Waters (Again)

"I think it helps to be neurotic. Neurotic people always end up being in the arts. If your kid fits in while in high school they’re going to be a dull adult. I still see a few people I went to high school with, but the other ones, when they come up to me I say: “I’m sorry, I took LSD, I don’t remember you.” It works, because then they aren’t offended personally. It’s really just manners."

John Waters - the British weekend papers' favourite art fag by far - in The Daily Telegraph on 10 Things Every Role Model Needs.
Mr Waters is talking at the Hay Festival this evening.