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ah, I'm not a woman from Yorkshire. Me mam is, so I have to watch a lot of her stuff. That was the point. Try keep up. As I am not at all a fan I cannot quote endless lines off the top of my bonce, but dinnerladies, for example, I found to be blisteringly unfunny. One example I was forced to view the other night saw one actor do a really long boring monolouge about christmas, the only laugh of which came from the word ""Miss Farnesbarnes"" - which wasn't even pronounced humorously (like Rowan Atkinson could with ""Bob"") - and that reminded me of something I saw where Julie Walters got all luvvied up in an interview about how Victoria uses masterful word play. I was left thinking if this is an example of ""masterful wordplay"" Walters could benefit from watching Blackadder, Chic Murray or anything Eric Idle or Ronnie Barker ever touched. It's a vaugely silly word deliviered by a wooden actor (it was one of those ones she always surounds herself with so they don't steal her limelight)

Then there's one that always sticks in my head for sheer crapness about marks and spencers who's ""trousers are dropping off"" (i.e. declining in quality/falling down). Now where is the humour in that? It's just a pointless, witless, bottom of the barrel seaside postcard humor that would make Julian Clary cringe. I know bum/trouser jokes are an aquired taste but The Young Ones, French and Saunders, Monty Python, Morecambe and Wise, Tommy Cooper, Les Dawson - they've all managed to construct a well thought through and vaugely witty bum-joke. Simply suggesting that trousers can concieveably fall down by way of an unrelated pun is neither sharp nor funny. 

Finally, my fave, on Parkinson or something like that she told an anecdote about a time she was in a resteraunt and some pissed old lady started saying to her family ""look that's victoria wood! I'm going to go over! I'm going to go over!"" then she approached Wood and said ""I've come over to see you"". Now even a comedian with good delivery would have trouble making that one funny, but Wood just sort of stumbled through it. Everyone in my livingroom sat stony faced while Parkie roared with laughter (he deserves the money he earnes) before my Grandad said what everyone was thinking - ""Why's that funny?"" Even me mam had to admit there was no humour there. I've never been so happy. 

The number of times I've seen Victoria Wood and someone's had to ask ""Why's that funny?"" Now if you can give me something that is funny by her instead of prasing her as one of the sharpest comics you've ever seen backed up by nothing I'll relent. Until then my original 18 posts stand. "