Victoria Wood RIP

[EdgeleyRob]

How could you forget this?

('I could handle half the tenors in a male voice choir...')

Tears of laughter very time I hear that.

RIP Victoria

[teamsaint]

A business I used to work with was owned by a couple called Barry and Freda.......

[Nick Armstrong]

Just returned from a day in the backwoods; can't quite take in this news. A terrible harvest of talent lately, it seems

[Cockney Sparrow]

Clip on tonights "Newsnight" -

"Shakespeare.......such a shame he died before he could collaborate with Andrew Lloyd Webber...."

i thought better of posting this on the Choral Evensong thread :
CE Holy Trinity Church, Stratford upon Avon April 20th, 2016

[Barbirollians]

One of my favourite sketches was the Italian restaurant when Julie Walters and Victoria Wood have lunch with the attentions of a lecherous waiter and Julie walters character has discovered her husband has been having an affair and is asked with whom

" You know that very small neighbour of mine - buys children's clothes and spends the VAT on tequila ? It's her - I wondered why he'd had that cat flap widened . "

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

One of my favourite sketches was the Italian restaurant when Julie Walters and Victoria Wood have lunch with the attentions of a lecherous waiter and Julie walters character has discovered her husband has been having an affair and is asked with whom

" You know that very small neighbour of mine - buys children's clothes and spends the VAT on tequila ? It's her - I wondered why he'd had that cat flap widened . "

Like so much of her work, there's a whole other story "behind" the punchline.

[ahinton]

Like so much of her work, there's a whole other story "behind" the punchline.

Indeed there is - which is perhaps one reason why her talents extended well beyond the realms of comedy.

The one thing piece of work that I could really have done without is Loving Joyce Hatto, although even that was as well written as one would expect from her; I don't think that the Hatto story really merited - or benefitted from - the kind of treatment that VW gave it and the end result struck me as having left rather too much unsaid and unexplored. But this was surely an exception among a raft of excellent work.

[Serial_Apologist]

Clip on tonights "Newsnight" -

"Shakespeare.......such a shame he died before he could collaborate with Andrew Lloyd Webber...."

Being acquainted with someone who has collaborated with ALW as I am, this is hilarious!

[Nick Armstrong]

[Lat-Literal]

Very sad news.

Two Soups - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6aYLOf8CUQ

Victoria Wood RIP

[Barbirollians]

A lovely article paying tribute by Philip Collins in the Times this morning .

[jean]

Vikki Stone analyses Let's do it on Last Word this afternoon - about ten minutes in:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0770qy6

"Four key changes...more internal rhymes than Cole Porter..."

[Barbirollians]

One of those all too early deaths that really make you rage against the dying of the light . Watched an Audience with Victoria Wood tonight - an extraordinarily funny hour of comedy .

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Absolutely - one of the very, very few people who was a danger to my asthma; so many times I was left begging for time to take a breath during her Live shows. And that combination of - not "talents", but "masteries": just irreplaceable.

[Barbirollians]

Lovely tribute to her on ITV tonight with Julie Walters and Celia Imrie's contributions particularly moving - available on the ITV hub online