Victoria Wood Commemorative Thread

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In memory of Victoria Wood who died 4 years ago today, FAR too young.

Please share your favourite sketches, songs and quotes, not least to keep us all amused during the current weirdness.

I'll start with one of my favourites, the legendary Kitty:

"No the secret of my youthful appearance is simply mashed swede. As a face-mask, as a night cap, and in an emergency, as a draught-excluder."

"Come and melt the buttons on me flameproof nightie". I miss Victoria Wood so much!

My heroine, my muse, the person I'd most like to be. Such a generous writer, usually giving others the best lines, jokes etc. The meticulous observation of mundane life that was excruciatingly funny.
In a restaurant/cafe with Julie Walters whose character had been to see Macbeth the previous night: 'Someone said womb! WOMB! I said 'Derek, get your duffle. All that money on tickets and a box of Quality Street and someone says womb!'
The scripts she wrote for 'Kitty' still make me cry laughing.
'My name's Kitty. I could have married, I've given gallons of blood and I can't stomach whelks, so that's me for you!'
And my favourite song; 'let me tell you who I am, I'm Pamela Patricia but they call me Pam..
I won't say 'gay' I still say 'queer', and I think that Mussolini had the right idea..'

I loved everything she did, an amazing comic actress, serious actress, comedian (stand up) writer, director.
A truely amazing woman, and as down as earth as they come.
She mucks in with everything when she is working, even setting the stage and putting out chairs.
She was so much of the scenery that if you didn't know her, you'd have no idea who she was
I met her a few times as my dd was in one of her productions.

swim the channel...i were always a big lass

Totally love her. As a Mancunian, I especially loved Dinnerladies and it reminded me of a factory I used to work in.

This is my favourite episode

And my best ever song was the iconic, Pam

I watch Pat and Margaret at least once a year. Adore it.

Now that I'm perimenopausal I find her menopause sketch hilarious.

Dinner Ladies:
"Tony Blair! Put 2 poems in a bus shelter and call it a university!"

the sketch when she's working at a make up counter somewhere and she walks out with three legs and says "isn't it awful but I can't resist the staff discount"

I also love the sketch where she's talking about rushing to get the kids ready in the morning while trying to read Mr Greedy and considering the expertise required to actually write a Mr Men book

One word..
Tofu

Hilarious!!

Dinner ladies went up on Netflix this week

I know it’s Julie Walters on Victoria’s show, but Two Soups is legend.

That sketch is called, 'Waitress.'

I loved her comedy. I also loved her pathos. I've got a cd of her songs. The one song about a man whose wife has died and the song recounts their life together.

Her children were only in their twenties when she died. Utterly heartbreaking. Victoria would have been an absolutely brilliant Grandmother.

now that is some GOOD lockdown news @SuddenArborealStop I just love Dinnerladies, it's just a work of art...so finely done

Excellent twitter page

Reincarnation Song is one of my favourites.

When I was 9 we were asked to spend a morning at school designing posters for the May Fayre (sic). The teacher wrote the details of the name of the event, time and date on the blackboard and as long as we included those we could design whatever we wanted.

I designed mine as May Fair. When my teacher wearily asked why I had been incapable of copying the wording correctly from the board I quoted Susie the continuity announcer at her, "I suppose they think if they spell it with a y more more people will come" and added in a bit of my mum's commentary on that sketch that fayre was a made up spelling designed to look older but really wasn't necessary.

That would have been in 1988. We still quote that line from Susie whenever we see anything advertised as "Fayre"

Hailey Bailey - Step Aerobics instructor - live!

Classic!

The audience crying with laughter ....

Everything but I guess Dinnerladies if I had to pick. Woke up feeling really down this morning and knew I had to snap myself out of it so stuck an episode on while I ate my toast, it helped like it always does

I first came across Victoria Wood and Julie Walters in 1979 in this gem of a musical film which is finally on YouTube!

Love her! Not a sketch but an interview she did with Dawn French. Watched it years ago well before she died. Noticed it recently on iPlayer so rewatched and cried my way through it. What a talent and so humble. Much missed

My favourites have already been mentioned on this thread - Sacherelle, the Pamela Patricia song, Dinnerladies (Niffy Nora The Aura Explorer!) but Let’s Do It is an absolute classic. She was taken far too soon.

@GreyGardens88
Loved her as Nella Last in Housewife 29

Love dinnerladies it’s as comforting as a warm bath

“He’s acrophobic - he fell off a diving board in guernsey” - words spoken regularly in our house for all kinds of occasions

This is Madeleine speaking...

Wendy and myself are just about to give a demonstration of Sacherelle’s new Autumn range of cosmetics and skin care preparations...

Free gift comprising suede effect pochette packed to the drawstring with handy sized oddments, totalling mouth blot, eye wipes and shimmering cleavage enhancer...

Don’t be bashful ladies...

My Mum adored her as did I, I had the amazing good fortune of seeing her live once and I will never ever forget her supreme entertainment and wit. Wonderful woman.