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"Beat me on the bottom with a Woman's Weekly": All things Victoria Wood
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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 253151" data-attributes="member: 23"><p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-size: 22px">Sold Out</span></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 15px">(1991)</span></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><img src="https://iv1.lisimg.com/image/13738671/600full-victoria-wood%3A-sold-out-screenshot.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 15px">I’m not 100% certain I’ve seen this one before, even though I also feel I must have. Either way the material never felt anything more than vaguely familiar. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 15px">It’s a typical mix of Vic’s standup and songs, featuring her hilariously sharp observations about everything from pregnancy to Deirdre Barlow’s perm getting shorter and tighter the more stressed she is (her brief gurning, deep voiced, cross-eyed impression of Deirdre on the phone to Ken is spot on, but manages to feel fond rather than cruel). </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 15px">In her 1990 <em>Sunday Sunday</em> interview she told Gloria Hunniford that she’d recently discovered sex as material, before pretend apologising to the genteel audience for mentioning the “s” word. This is perhaps perfectly captured in one of the show’s highlights, where she described an evening of terribly British wife-swapping, which speaks for itself. </span></span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: center">[MEDIA=youtube]7j0FD4OPN4w[/MEDIA]</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 15px">She also covers pregnancy with the story of trying to pee on a paddle in peace. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 15px"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 15px">The songs are both light and upbeat. The first is the Saturday night out song, and she closes perfectly with <em>Reincarnation, </em>which feels more meaningful now that she’s died. </span></span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size: 15px">[MEDIA=youtube]ThtTrfF0QVk[/MEDIA]</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-size: 15px">The version I watched on YouTube came complete with early Nineties adverts, and I had fun trying to remember what each product was advertising. It also reminded me how perfect the satirical adverts on <em>Wood & Walters </em>and<em> As Seen On TV </em>were and I half expected some of these genuine-but-naff commercials to turn out to be spoofs. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: center"></p></blockquote><p></p>
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