Victoria Wood Commemorative Thread

[DMCWelshcakes]

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."

I loved Victoria. One way or another she is quoted most days in this house, and there is a restaurant we go to almost exclusively so we can do 'can you see it on the trolley' (they have a fabulously retro -and not in an ironic way- dessert trolley).

I've decided to make the most of my sick leave by having a Victoria Wood DVD marathon. First up - Acorn Antiques the Musical.

Dinnerladies:

Tony: I quite like women in a sad, baffled sort of way! But can we get a grip? Out of a workforce of five, at any given moment one will have pre-menstrual tension, one's panicking because she's not, someone's having a hot flush and someone else is having a nervous breakdown because her HRT patch has fallen in the minestrone!
Jean: [Annoyed] That was a one off!

Dolly: Didn't they teach you anything at school?
Twinkle: How to put a condom on a cucumber
Dolly: Honestly, what's the point in that?
Bren: Be fair Dolly there's not many cucumbers that could manage it for themselves.

Tony – All a bloke really wants for Christmas is a voucher that says “Take this to 32 Sycamore Avenue. Mrs Janet Farnsbarnes will be stark naked waiting for you. You can have as long as you like, you get a cup of tea afterwards and you don’t have to have a bloody conversation.

Tony: Look Bren mate, if you don’t wanna go we won’t go.
Bren: I don’t know, maybe you should go on your own.
Tony: I don’t wanna go on me poxy own! Do I?! I wanna be with you, don’t I! You snot-brained half wit.
Jean: She wrote some wonderful things, Jane Austen

“Can I thrust by? I’m a diabetic”

Used very often in my family

MrsSnitchnose
I love "Pam" too!. The glorious antithesis to Freda

Harold, dear, do get dressed
I've seen one in a book and I was not impressed

Love love love her, so sad she's gone.

Dinnerladies is sublime.

Dolly: Irritable bowel syndrome!! What happened to flatulence?

She was fantastic ... I love dinner ladies
Now I’m middle aged lady I find it even funnier with all the talk of HRT patches in the soup 😂 etc
Gone far too young ... 😔...
“ you said he looked like Richard Madely “

Jean ... “i meant Richard whitely “! 😂
amazing script, delivered in such a brilliant way ....

Petula Gordino .. “he lit up, Paid out, and no tilting “ 😆
Legend 💐

"Are you not pregnant?"
"Only if sperm can get through a sash window".

Only if sperm can get through a sash window

I use this phrase often, replacing sash, with double glazed

@Panfriedscallops

I’d like to watch that programme. What’s it called?

My dad was a desert rat...

@TowandaForever

Funny Women, I think.

"Where's my Clint?"..

I was going to go on Mastermind, but I can't sit on leather.

I adored her. Like a pp, she is the one. The one I wish I could emulate. I feel so bloody bereft whenever I remember that's she's gone. She wrote for other people better than for herself, which is the mark of her generosity. She was an extraordinary talent and as brilliant at capturing subtle humanity as she was at writing pure satire.

Four years. Blimey.

You've a look of Eva Braun, did you know?

She was a glue in our house when we were having an awful time. She was the one thing my DMum, DSis and I could agree on when otherwise we could rarely be together without an argument. There was a lot going on but she was a point of contact between us because her writing bridged gaps.

This is local to me (I hope the picture attaches). I think she would have a wry smile at the bin

TowandaForever

Just had a look took me ages to find but it's well worth a watch - it's called More Dawn French's Girls who do Comedy. It's in the archive section on iPlayer on sky

Jean - You'll have to give it a bit more welly than that Christine.

Christine - You're very intrusive aren't you Jean? This is the old country way, whisking towards the heart.

Jean - And which silly old country person told you that?

Is it already four years? She was great. I think I will dig out my Housewife, 49 DVD this evening and watch it in commemoration. She died far too young.

This post has made me cry, she was so talented and I still laugh at her stuff even though I’ve seen it multiple times - the couple wanting a test tube baby cos they’ve only got a maisonette 😂

72 baps Connie - you slice, I'll spread
Miss her wit and observation

I always remember her being interviewed by someone who asked her about the baby she had recently had and indicated she was a little older than average perhaps. 'Last egg in the box!' she agreed with him deadpan. I've used that line myself many times (always credit Victoria though).

I saw her on stage once years ago and she was brilliantly funny, though the only thing I can actually remember is when she spotted someone on the front row eating a chocolate orange and insisted on having a piece before she continued. It doesn't sound funny saying that, but she somehow had roars of laughter from us all.

Can only reiterate; she is my number comedy heroine and I'm still so sad that she's gone. It doesn't seem real. I have so many favourites:

Mrs Overall "the macaroons have been on a low light since Wednesday".

Live with Pam "I am no ordinary middle-aged woman with a keen brain and an overwhelming sexual magnetism. I am Pam!"

An Audience with VW: "Here's my ID. Yes I do look rather startled don't I? Only it was taken in a photo booth and someone had just poked an éclair through the curtain".

Val De Ree Ha ha (paraphrasing it) :
Yuppy wife: these people really wanted some milk Jeremy.
Jeremy: "Milk?"
Yuppy wife: Yes from cows.
Jeremy: "do we have some?"
Yuppy: "not really"
Jeremy: "can we get some faxed?!"

I loved her so much. I had severe pnd and used to sit up all night feeding my dd with an old stand up vid of hers. She got me through a really bad time.