To be properly sad about Victoria Wood

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I don't "do" celebs, but I'm proper gutted and have shed a tear. I really feel a loss today.

She was one of the first women in my generation who made it acceptable for women to be funny. Being fairly close to the back of the queue when they were giving out looks, that was a lifesaver for me.

Obviously,she was a lot better at it than me!

I heard it on the news when I came out of work and howled - properly howled - all the way home.

I don't do crying.

As well as all the joy and fun, her work was really important. She was brilliant live and she had a huge influence on my way of thinking.

YADNBU - it's so sad.

Tomorrow : yes, it was actually a bit frowned on to be a funny woman.

"What price red cabbage?"
"Red cabbage no idea"

I'm just laughing and crying at the same time, remembering all her best lines and just so, so sad.

Me too, I've been sobbing. Victoria Wood As Seen On TV was first on before I was born, but I know every episode off by heart and still fall about laughing at the jokes.
Everything she did was brilliant, both comedy and drama.
I feel so bad for her family too, losing her at such a young age.
She should have been around to make us laugh for so many more years. 😢

I cried too. Gleegeek, I feel the same. My dd was not very old and we were at my Mum's. Victoria Wood did a hilarious stand-up set on the TV about having a baby and my Mum and I laughed until we cried. I lost my Mum a few years ago, too and it feels as if my youth and childhood are ever further away. Victoria Wood was a real champion of ordinary women who were not amazingly beautiful. I loved her and she was just so funny.

So so sad. She was one of the few people who made me laugh out loud.

Feel as if I want to say thank you to her, for the years of laughter that she gave us all.

I was really saddened to hear of her death. I kind of grew up with her gentle perceptive comedy, and she always seemed so down to earth.

I remember the way that she brought 'housewife 49' to life - a mass observational diary of a middle aged woman in WW2 who chronicled her life - her triumphs, her despair, and the stretching to make ends meet.

To pick up on the privations, experiences and seemingly ordinariness and think that this was worth exploring and showing was terrific!

She saw humour in the mundane minutae of life, but unlike many celebrities, I got a sense of her as truly just being like 'us'.

RIP Victoria Wood x

Bugger.

Again I roll over in the Aussie dark morning and see someone's face on the iPad, but no text as it downloads, just knowing what it will be. Was Alan Rickman last time.

So sad such talented woman has gone. So funny.

I'm another one knocking on 62, and I can tell you it feels no age at all.

Another one shocked and very sad- I think perhaps it almost feels as though she was related as she is so down to earth.

No age at just 62.

So sad she can't read this, I hope she knew how valued she was.

I really wish no one had to die from cancer.... it's not OK to write that someone is more deserving of that horribly undignified death than someone else regardless of who they are....
I was and remain upset and hope Julie Walters and her friends find peace. Its Just a shock :(

Crying this morning. Like many others have said I don't do celebrities and I don't do crying but feel so affected by Victoria Wood's death. I also hope she realized how admired she was. Too young.

I feel the same. I always loved the song "Made your breakfast this morning, like any old day, then I remembered, and threw it away". That song captured for me bereavement like no other song has. It had her usual understated genius.

Victoria Wood was one of the few comedians that women can claim as their own. There are endless male comedians, but only one or two stand out that are actually for women.

I think one of the reasons her death has affected us is that she was one of us and we felt we knew her and we felt she knew us. Her comedy was never cruel and it was comforting to be able to laugh at issues that are unique to our sex such as weight gain, menopuase, children, ageing and just getting it wrong. There was a camaraderie in her comedy that left us feeling better about life.

True, Miss B. I watched her Having a Baby monologue yesterday and it brought it all back, even though my youngest is 21. I was in fits

What I find really sad is there will never be another female comedian like her. VW flourished in an era when women comedians didn't have to be thin/sexily dressed/puerile to be successful.

Agree Million. There wasn't a market for what she was doing so she made one. She also came to the fore in the seventies when comedians were almost exclusively male and misogynistic. She had guts and determination and endless, endless talent.

I loved her stuff when I was a teenager and I loved it now I'm in my forties. She will leave such a chasm. She has been in the background for decades and I could watch her stuff over and over and not get bored.

I am! I grew up to her tv programmes as a child, a part of my childhood died with her. I very rarely get moved by a celebrity's death, this is the third time it's happened. The other two were Robin Williams and Alan Rickman

I feel the same as everyone else about VW. I saw her live in Bristol in the 90's. For days afterwards my face and stomach ached from laughing so much.
Also in the 2000's saw "Acorn Antiques" in the West End. Julie Walters, obviously was in it, plus a lot of the other regular actors. VW wasn't in it regularly, but fortunately the day I went she was. Just brilliant.
So sad she's died

Her comedy was never cruel and it was comforting to be able to laugh at issues that are unique to our sex such as weight gain, menopuase, children, ageing and just getting it wrong. There was a camaraderie in her comedy that left us feeling better about life.

This. I remember her slot in That's Life in the 70s - best part of the show. As pp have said, she was always so clever and so funny. Much, much missed.

I actually cried watching the tribute tonight (and also laughed a lot) and felt sad for all those people who worked with her for so long who have lost a friend.