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Victoria Wood CBE (born 19 May 1953) is an English comedienne, actress, singer-songwriter, screenwriter and director. Wood has written and starred in sketches, plays, films and sitcoms, and her live comedy act is interspersed with her own compositions, which she accompanies on piano. Wood also composed and performed the theme music for her award winning BBC sitcom Dinnerladies. Much of her humour is grounded in everyday life, and includes references to popular British media and brand names of quintessentially British products. She is noted for her skills in observing culture, and in satirising social classes.
She started her career in 1974 by winning the ATV talent show New Faces. It wasn't until the 1980s that she began to establish herself as a comedy star, with the award-winning television series Victoria Wood As Seen on TV and became one of Britain's most popular stand-up comics. In 1998, she wrote and starred in the (again, award-winning) sitcom Dinnerladies. In 2006, she won two BAFTA awards for her one-off drama for ITV1, Housewife, 49. Wood frequently works with long-term collaborators Julie Walters, Duncan Preston and Celia Imrie.
This 50 minute programme, recorded at the Mayflower Theatre Southampton, features Victoria Wood perform her mix of stand-up comedy and humorous songs parodying everyday life. Originally broadcast on the itv network this programme is taken from an original VHS recording of a Yorkshire Television broadcast. Copyright Good Fun Ltd 1991 London Weekend Television / Yorkshire Television / itv plc all rights reserved. Find us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/tvheaven
A one-off, fifty minute comedy sketch show special, written by and starring comedian Victoria Wood. Broadcast by the BBC on Christmas Day 1992. The show was linked by Duncan Preston and Wood as husband and wife daytime TV presenters 'Martin Cumbernauld' and 'Sally Crossthwaite'. Blatant parodies of the real husband and wife presenting team Richard Madeley and Judy Finnegan. This was Wood's first sketch show since the phenomenally successful Victoria Wood As Seen On TV ended in 1987, and included the new 'mini-soap' "The Mall", which featured the return of Mrs. Overall and the establishment of her own branch of Acorn Antiques. Several of Victoria Wood's stand up shows and sketch series "As Seen on TV" are available on DVD release. Transferred from an original VHS recording of a BBC tran...
Victoria Wood talking about menopause and health food shops. From live at the Albert 2001
So sad to her of the death of Victoria Wood (20th April 2016). I'm just glad she has left such a huge amount of hilarious work behind her so that she won't be forgotten for a very long time. All copyright acknowledged Good Fun/Pozzitive Television
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Victoria Wood As Seen On TV was a British comedy sketch series starring comedian Victoria Wood, with Julie Walters, Celia Imrie, Duncan Preston, Susie Blake and Patricia Routledge. The show was televised on BBC Two between 1985 and 1987 and included sketches that became famous in the United Kingdom; these included one-offs like Two Soups (in which Walters, as an elderly waitress, takes too long to deliver two bowls of soup) and regular features like Acorn Antiques (a parody of low-budget soap opera), as well as musical performances by Wood including her most well-known number, The Ballad of Barry and Freda ("Let's Do It"). The show was created when Wood was enticed away from rival television station ITV in 1984. She wrote the whole programme, and also the synopsis of it for listings magaz...
From Victoria Wood's Mid Life Christmas 2009 Click here to see the original... http://youtu.be/uSBuPTLh8BE
Victoria Wood interviewed by Michael Parkinson in 2000 talks about her childhood.
Complete Victoria Wood interview from Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy series
Victoria Wood talking to Michael Parkinson back in 2001 - Part 1. (not the best quality sorry!)
Russell Brand calls Victoria Wood, best known for sitcom Dinnerladies and sketch show Victoria Wood as Seen on TV, for a phone interview on The Russell Brand Show on BBC Radio 2 with guest co-host Mr Gee. Original air date October 20th 2007. Taken from Episode 82 (20/10/07) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YQP4Hquq04&index;=82&list;=PLrPWo5gGpbHx6ppQuQ_AKSohq3D0xIN96 More Interviews https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrPWo5gGpbHygmS8el3tIW9UITwe8VT7i If you enjoy this video please like, subscribe and share.
Victoria Wood interviewed by Michael Parkinson 2000 - talks about piano lessons and meeting her long-time comedy partner, Julie Walters.
A nervous schoolgirl is interviewed as a potential student at a medical school. One of the funniest sketches ever. Sadly, she'd probably be good enough to get in now.
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Comedienne Victoria Wood talks fans, what it is to be Northern, sex shops and chip shops with Michael. Free video clip from the popular british talk show 'Parkinson'.
BAFTA award winning comedian, Victoria Wood CBE and her husband Magician Geoffrey Durham catch up with Mavis Nicholson. In this extract Victoria Wood speaks about how she used to get over her bouts of shyness. First shown on Thames TV in 13/12/1989 If you would like to license a clip from this interview please e mail: archive@fremantlemedia.com
Victoria Wood's brother defends book that labels comedian a "fat, unhappy girl" Victoria Wood died after a battle with cancer (Peter Jordan/PA) Victoria Wood's brother defends book that labels comedian a "fat, unhappy girl" Victoria Wood in Dinnerladies (BBC/PA) Victoria Wood's brother defends book that labels comedian a "fat, unhappy girl" Victoria Wood receiving her CBE Thank for watching! Don't forget subscribe this channel to watch more video. Read more: http://tv.bt.com/tv/tv-news/victoria-woods-brother-defends-book-that-labels-comedian-a-fat-unhappy-girl-11364102392679
Victoria Wood - We'd Quite Like to Apologise
Victoria Wood - Mens Sana in Thingummy Doodah
Read your free e-book: http://copydl.space/mebk/50/en/B004PGNH28/book one of the great British comedians and all-round entertainers of her generation' Guardian'bittersweet but scalpel sharp' Radio Times'one of Britains finest ever performers ... a sublime and unparalleled crafter of words' Independent Victoria Wood's wit and humour endeared her to millions of Tv viewers for over four decades. Writer, producer and actress of television shows such as As Seen on Tv and Dinnerladies, Victoria was often voted the funniest woman in Britain. Her rise to stardom, from her early years in Lancashire to the successes of the sell-out shows at the Royal Albert Hall, is sympathetically and honestly portrayed by Neil Brandwood. This meticulously researched and written biography provides an insightful acc...
In this video I chat to singer-songwriter Vin Goodwin about his love for comedienne and writer Victoria Wood, who died earlier this year. Vin also talks about Vin's Night In - the monthly night he hosts at The Hospital Club, London. Check out the other videos on Vin Goodwin in this series. Click here for my previous video: ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YbUVzv0WSw Click here to subscribe to my channel: ► http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaNc2JH146PLiqAxP2SWdvQ?sub_confirmation=1 Video intro animation: John von Ahlen Video outro animation: Phil Bearman Photography: Simon J Webb | jacktheladmag.com Follow me on social media: ► Facebook (Phil Marriott): https://www.facebook.com/DJPhilMarriott/ ► Facebook (Podcast): https://www.facebook.com/PMKEpodcast/ ► Facebook (Remixes): https://w...
Victoria Wood fans asked to choose which of her characters will be made into a statue in her hometown The life-sized bronze of the comedian, who died aged 62 in April, wil either be of Kimberley's Friend or Brenda Furlong from Dinnerladies Victoria Wood fans will get to choose which of the late comedian’s best-loved characters will be depicted on a statue. Her brother Chris Foote Wood said the life-sized bronze memorial in her hometown will either feature Brenda Furlong, from Dinnerladies, or Kimberley’s Friend. Chris said: “We had to rule out her at the piano, because a piano in solid bronze would cost as much again as the statue itself. “So it will be down to two of Victoria’s most popular characters, Bren from Dinnerladies in her smock, or Kimberley’s Friend in a mac and beret...
Episode 2 here... http://youtu.be/P4N_HF6Y1mI First broadcast on 16th November 1989. Victoria attends a health farm. Featuring Julie Walters, Lill Roughley, Liza Tarbuck, Meg Johnson, Anne Reid, Georgia Allen, Selina Cadell & Peter Martin.
Episode 5 here... http://youtu.be/yC_JExytbto First transmitted 7 December 1989 Victoria hangs around an airport passenger lounge waiting with her fellow passengers for their plane to arrive. Featuring Julie Walters, Lill Roughley, Celia Imrie, Susie Blake, Una Stubbs, Jane Horrocks, Philip Lowrie, Peter Martin & the voice of Duncan Preston.
Episode 4 here... http://youtu.be/aBcQ2vV1eX8 First transmitted on 30th November 1989 Victoria chums her hairdressing friend (Kay Adshead) to a daytime TV interview on 'Live With Pam'. But the snobbish host Pam Cunard (Julie Walters) gets her comeuppance when a working class teenage girl guests. Featuring Julie Walters, Lill Roughley, Kay Adshead, Meg Johnson, Julia St. John, Hugh Lloyd, Margery Mason and Shirley Cain.
Episode 3 here... http://youtu.be/gkWCwr7xdfU First broadcast on 23rd November 1989 Victoria helps her friend Sheila (Anne Reid) who uses the services of a dating agency. Featuring Anne Reid, Carol MacReady, Richard Kane & Philip Lowrie.
Episode 6 here...http://youtu.be/3CbkLGORROs First Transmitted 14 December 1989 Victoria and Jackie (Celia Imrie) go on a walking holiday across the moors. Featuring Celia Imrie, Joan Sims, Michael Nightingale, Avril Angers & Sian Thomas.
First transmitted 21 December 1989 Victoria wants to stay in, but her stuck up friend drags her along to a posh London dinner party. Featuring Celia Imrie, Lill Roughley, Susie Blake, Patricia Hodge, Jim Broadbent, Deborah Grant, Phyllis Calvert, John Nettleton, Roger Brierley and Richard Linton.
In a multi-storey carpark
In the middle of the night
There’s a youngish girl just standing
In the artificial light,
With a blank pale face and stringy hair,
By the litter bin, just standing there.
She holds a little baby.
It isn’t very old,
Just a little grubby bundle,
Wrapped up against the cold,
And she looks around, then puts it in,
Puts the baby in the litter bin.
Chorus:
Because it’s a sad world,
What can I tell you?
Half of the things that happen
Don’t make sense at all.
It must be a sad world,
I know, I know, I know, I know,
That puts a baby in a litter bin
In a nice suburban high street,
In the middle of the day,
A small man with a rifle
Blasts a bank clerk’s life away,
And while women scream, the bank clerk’s eyes
Hold a look of mild surprise.
They ask him why he did it.
He only says, "Because,"
And the mother of the bank clerk
Keeps his bedroom as it was.
On his unmade bed she weeps for him
And the baby in the litter bin.
Chorus:
Because it’s a sad world,
It shouldn’t surprise you
If something sounds cruel and pointless.
Chances are, it’s true,
But I wonder if I knew
Somewhere inside, inside, inside, inside,
That they put babies into litter bins.
In a Bentley full of music,
In the early afternoon,
Some chap still drunk from lunchtime
Jumps the lights a bit too soon,
And while Callas sings, she’s so superb,
A crumpled figure hits the kerb.
While her face is covered over,
He blames its on his clutch.
There’s a gutter full of shopping
That no-one wants to touch,
Some broken eggs, a dented tin
And a baby in a litter bin.
Chorus:
Because it’s a sad world,
And people do dumb things,
And people have dumb things done to them,
And that is worse,
And whether you just curse,
Or cry, or cry, or cry, or cry,
There’s still the baby in the litter bin.
Because it’s a sad world,
We have to have kind hearts.
We have to light tiny bonfires
That can pierce the dark.
Then maybe one small spark,
Who knows, who knows, who knows, who knows,
Could possibly begin
To warm the frozen skin