So, my style has hopefully changed over the years and it is more relaxed, and I do tend to smile and have more than one expression these days hopefully - which I didn’t at the beginning.

Jo Brand reflects on the evolution of her onstage persona: early in her career she was known for a more fixed, deadpan delivery, whereas experience has allowed her to loosen her performance style and show a wider emotional range. The remark suggests a performer’s growing comfort with audiences and with herself—confidence that permits warmth, spontaneity, and visible enjoyment without abandoning comedic control. It also hints at how comedians consciously craft “expression” as part of their act, and how that craft can shift over time from defensive restraint to relaxed authenticity.