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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 253561" data-attributes="member: 23">Live In Your Own Home(25th December 1994)<img src="https://iv1.lisimg.com/image/11521290/600full-victoria-wood%3A-live-in-your-own-home-screenshot.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />At least that’s the date it was first shown on telly. It was released on video on 31st December 1994, and presumably shot several months before that. The blurb on the back of my DVD copy says it has appearances from Julie Walters and Duncan Preston, but actually I just caught a brief glimpse of Julie in the audience, rocking with laughter. And I didn’t see Duncan at all. No matter, it’s a great set from Vic. At 50 minutes it feels very much like the Beeb’s equivalent of  An Audience With…  About half the length of a full set, but a brilliant little time capsule of Vic’s talents. The material feels fresh, and I love the way she makes stories about giving birth and coping with a baby not only hilarious but also accessible even to someone who has no experience of either (that would be me). Like the antenatal classes:Some stuff could easily fall into the “too much information” category (haemorrhoids, anyone) but I love that there are no sacred cows in the material Vic uses. This is the concert where she comments that one of her children looks like something out of the Beano, which apparently scarred the child when they watched the concert some years later. I watched this back-to-back with another concert so I may be getting messed up, but I think it was this one that also had a hilarious impression of Mia Farrow picking out her children in the style of someone choosing letters on Countdown. Some great new characters make their debut appearance (or at least, this is the first time I’ve seen them in this chronology). There’s Madeleine the hairdresser. And there’s Madge and her low impact Fattitude class, which is a masterclass in comedy technical skills. Vic manages to deliver lines while running through a full energetic workout. Not once does she miss a step. Not once does she miss a line. I can imagine it would have taken a lot of time to work out the choreography along with the lines. And both are really funny. There’s a little self-deprecation from Vic about her size, but again, this is just her laying it on the line. The songs are great. I especially loved the ballad, Go With It, which is continued proof that it’s not just all about the laugh out loud songs. Vic can write poignant, heartfelt lyrics with the best of them:[MEDIA=youtube]5rpTM9eW_AQ[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

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