ANOTHER GONE TO SOON

Coxall2015 · **Joined:** Fri Jan 29, 2016 12:10 am **Posts:** 77

Rip Victoria Wood

The Bishop · **Posted:** Wed Apr 20, 2016 6:07 pm

A true talent. Enjoyed most everything she wrote, especially Dinnerladies.

I didn't even know til I turned the 6 o'clock news on.

Malcolm Dawes Knew My Father · **Joined:** Wed May 11, 2011 4:25 pm **Posts:** 4198

She didn't always tickle my funny bone (the two soups sketch did like) but 62 is really no age for a woman to go.

poolieinnottingham · **Posted:** Wed Apr 20, 2016 6:15 pm

I think she was probably a lot funnier than the persona she was moulded into. It's hard to remember that there were virtually no female comics until quite recently.

RIP

The Colonel · **Joined:** Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:49 am **Posts:** 4891

I would imagine celebrities the world over are currently trying to lose that tag.

An unbelievablestart to the year for celbrity deaths.

Bossa Nova · **Joined:** Sun Feb 01, 2015 1:51 am **Posts:** 376

Thanks for the laughs Victoria.
https://youtu.be/RgsATvel51I
RIP

Compo · **Posted:** Wed Apr 20, 2016 9:53 pm

Awful comic but that's no age and another gone to the worst of worst diseases

The Fat Man · **Joined:** Wed Jun 10, 2009 4:03 pm **Posts:** 2107

I thought she was fabulously funny. And smart.

OddsOnPhil · **Joined:** Mon Aug 15, 2011 10:27 am **Posts:** 674

Very funny lady, Dinnerladies had some fantastic lines and the casting was brilliant especially Julie Walters as Bren's mother. She always had a warmth to her humour, never vindictive or nasty.

monkeybutt · **Posted:** Thu Apr 21, 2016 6:47 pm

Loved Acorn antiques, she was ok and there were some funnies, " I went to one of them parties where you throw your keys on a table, I don`t know who got my moped but I drove that Peugeot 206 for years"

MutleyRules · **Posted:** Thu Apr 21, 2016 7:58 pm

Again....shocked!!!! Not my type of humour but very very talented!!!!

R.I.P. Miss!!!! sadx

Bossa Nova · **Joined:** Sun Feb 01, 2015 1:51 am **Posts:** 376

OddsOnPhil wrote:

Very funny lady, Dinnerladies had some fantastic lines and the casting was brilliant especially Julie Walters as Bren's mother. She always had a warmth to her humour, never vindictive or nasty.

Bang on. I don't get this blokish "there's no funny women comedians" shit, there's always been loads. Victoria Woods' flair for dialogue was unmatched, she must have had ears like radar in the bus queue!. She often gave her best lines/roles to others, quite rightly with Julie Walters who made "Mrs Overall" and "Two Soups" unforgettable gems.

The Fat Man · **Joined:** Wed Jun 10, 2009 4:03 pm **Posts:** 2107

Bossa Nova wrote:

Bang on. I don't get this blokish "there's no funny women comedians" shit, there's always been loads.

I agree. The failure to find women funny, I suspect, is down to a lack of empathy and an inability to look at the world from a different perspective.

grabec · **Joined:** Thu Jun 04, 2015 10:45 am **Posts:** 830

The Fat Man wrote:

Bossa Nova wrote:

Bang on. I don't get this blokish "there's no funny women comedians" shit, there's always been loads.

I agree. The failure to find women funny, I suspect, is down to a lack of empathy and an inability to look at the world from a different perspective.

I suppose if you really don't find a comedian funny, then that's that.
But there are a lot of preconceptions, with some people, about what they're going to let themselves laugh at, and what not. The 'blokish' thing Bossa mentions is just a decision not to give wimmen credit for being entertaining. Real men don't do it........

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