Victoria Wood
Overview
Victoria Wood CBE
Order of the British Empire
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...

 (born 19 May 1953) is a British comedienne
Comedian
A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy...

, actress, singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

, screenwriter
Screenwriter
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 and director. Wood has written and starred in sketches, plays, films and sitcom
Situation comedy
A situation comedy, often shortened to sitcom, is a genre of comedy that features characters sharing the same common environment, such as a home or workplace, accompanied with jokes as part of the dialogue...

s, and her live stand-up comedy
Stand-up comedy
Stand-up comedy is a comedic art form. Usually, a comedian performs in front of a live audience, speaking directly to them. Their performances are sometimes filmed for later release via DVD, the internet, and television...

 act is interspersed with her own compositions, which she accompanies on piano
Piano
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. 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 class
Social class
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es.

She started her career in 1974 by winning the ATV
Associated TeleVision
Associated Television, often referred to as ATV, was a British television company, holder of various licences to broadcast on the ITV network from 24 September 1955 until 00:34 on 1 January 1982...

 talent show New Faces
New Faces
New Faces was a British television talent show popular in the 1970s and 1980s, presented originally by Derek Hobson. It was produced by ATV Network Limited for the ITV Network. The first run of the show was from 29 September 1973 to 2 April 1978 and was recorded at the ATV Centre, Birmingham...

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Quotations

Terribly sorry, I seem to have written a Mr Men Book on your computer.

I'm not getting anything from Jersey, it's against my rights, because that's where they filmed Bergerac.

[with a heavy Northern English (UK) accent] Elloh. I'm lookin' fer me friennnd. Kimmmberleh? 'Ave you seen 'er?

People think I'm Dawn French sometimes. They come up to me and just ask "what's it like being married to Lenny Henry?" I say "How should I know, I've only seen him on a muesli commercial.""

Last time I went Intercity there were a couple across the aisle having sex. Of course, this being a British train, nobody said anything. Then they finished, they both lit up a cigarette and this woman stood up and said, "Excuse me, I think you'll find this is a non-smoking compartment."

Now my children won't even eat chips because some little know all bastard at school told them a potato was a vegetable

She's doing her pelvic floor exercises. Or she's just banged her hemorrhoids on a litter bin

Pass the parcel when I was a kid, there was none of this everybody gets something. I mean you were lucky if there was anything in the middle. You would get to the last layer and say "Theres nothing in it Mrs Pickering", "No thats life that is think on!"

My husband's had a Vasectomy, didn't tell me bloody liar said he was going to the garden centre

 
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