Comedy and music.
The eagle
eyed amongst you can’t fail to have noticed that if there are two things that
greatly influence my writing the most, then this pair just happens to be it.
They’re both
perfect means of escape from the world when everything is getting a bit on top
of you and guaranteed to pick you back up.
Indeed the action provoked by one of them,
laughter, is deemed at times to be “the best medicine “and as good reviews go
you can’t get much better than that.
So at risk
of Girl from the neck down starting to sound like the obituary column as 2016 rolls
on wreaking havoc on our treasured celebrities list, I’d like to pay tribute to
a lady without whose influence in both those areas, my writing would be a much
more sober, serious affair and probably not quite as much fun.
Ladies and gentlemen,
would you please be upstanding for the brilliant and multi talented, Miss
Victoria Wood.
A down to
earth lass with an excellent eye for observational comedy she tickled our funny
bones by finding humour in people and situations that go on around us in
everyday life.
She inspired
many a bookish, funny, clever girl to realise that they could be a woman in
comedy and that that particular accolade didn’t have to equate with being either
a nagging old harridan or the token sexy dolly bird being chased about by the
likes of Benny Hill and not only that they could also be the writer of the show
as well as performing in it.
In fact
without a little influence from Victoria and her unique take on things, I could
guarantee some of my more, let’s just say “interesting” concepts for what has
appeared here on these pages may never have even gotten past the “I could do
this but maybe it’s a little too mad and out there to appeal to the general
public “stage from the idea’s scribbled in my notebook.
So let’s
raise a toast to the woman who taught us that being witty is just as amazing as
being pretty and that should you ever doubt yourself in anything you do just
look to the words of the heroine of the ballad of Barry and Freda and embrace
the oddness that is your most appealing trait with an almighty shout of
“Let’s do it
“.
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