"A Fairly Ordinary Man" - Victoria Wood

Sketch from "Victoria Wood as seen on TV"
Mock fly -on-wall documentary featuring a young Jim Broadbent

[@A-small-amount-of-peas]

Victoria taught me that humor can be subtle and you don't need non stop gags to make people laugh

[@linmonash1244]

Delivered as always with great affection and compassion. Simply great writing.

[@jillysimmonds8545]

Jim Broadbent is wonderful.

[@psychosoma5049]

He made a very convincing armchair...

[@Steve20127]

Absolutely brilliant. I fell about when I first saw this years ago, and I still do!!

[@meirwise1107]

The Pride of Prestwich, gone too soon. Rip Victoria, queen of Comedy.

[@TheCaulfield1]

"Let's just say we didn't like the consistency of the custard....let's just leave it there!"

[@nztv8589]

we've been watching this sketch on and off for 25 years or more! we always use this line when we eat custard!!

[@iwasglad122]

God, things were grim back then, but there is a reality to it. It was JUST like that. I remember it well.

[@SamuelBlack84]

Things are grim now

[@zeddeka]

​@@SamuelBlack84every era has many problems but there was a very particular bleakness to the 1980s. Mass unemployment, the cities full of industrial dereliction, crime exploding (much worse than it is today) and on top of that, there was often very little to do. It was the decade of kids wandering the streets because they had nothing else to do and constantly saying "I'm bored".

[@SamuelBlack84]

@@zeddeka Life is one big meandering toing and frying between bouts of boredom with no escape whatsoever

[@zeddeka]

@@SamuelBlack84 Worse in some eras than others.

[@SamuelBlack84]

@@zeddeka If only we could live outside of the sphere of humanity

[@martinryan3318]

Pure genius!

[@veganvocalist4782]

VERY MUCH MISSED

[@Nothing-db1zy]

Jim's voice has never changed in 40 plus years!

[@caerfaimama]

"When I had my tubes tilted..."

[@nztv8589]

"ooh now that is nice !"

[@davidsimm805]

Thats very nice

[@davidsimm805]

Love

[@glamdolly30]

"Hello, would you like to be friends with Jesus at all?" This is HILARIOUS!

[@valmurphy2462]

'not really, thank you ' lol . Superb

[@booth2710]

That was what I loved about Victoria's documentary spoofs. They took all the elements of real documentations and exaggerated them and went just a little bit over the top - and yet - they never drifted too far away from realism.

[@valmurphy2462]

I'll say that next time the jehovas Witnesses come round

[@valmurphy2462]

I mean I'll say. not really, thank you!

[@tedburnand6516]

Not Really Thank You

[@amysmileyreid95]

Jim Broadbent has never been 32, he’s skipped over that as a kid lol

[@johnd6487]

“‘s against clock, this” a line frequently muttered by my partner or I while playing some game on our phone when the other interrupts 😆

[@ShearsOfAtropos]

are they to 'ave porridge?

[@davidsimm805]

This really is comedy 🤣

[@davidryan9496]

'That's nice'.

[@A-small-amount-of-peas]

That's VERY nice

[@SamuelBlack84]

Duffin' eck!

[@TheSteelydanfan]

I wanted shreddies........

[@petedall]

this line makes me piss

[@TheSteelydanfan]

sweet and sour haddock. ..

[@snowbelle74]

So! Philip’s to have a crease also ...

[@Marksey33]

Abattoir Road 😂😂

[@itsdebs]

This is genius.

[@anialiki]

genius

[@sidfletcher4955]

What's hot Marion?

[@therespectedlex9794]

Was the van anything to do with Pete Postlethwaite?

[@clairecullen2682]

Hilarious 😂

[@TheEulerID]

Now the question is, are telephone deodorisers classified as telephone sanitisers and thus destined to be evacuated from in the B Ark along with the hairdressers? It's well known that those who remained behind were wiped out by a virulent virus passed on via contaminated telephones due to the lack of telephone sanitisers.

[@GiGiGoesShopping]

Isn't Pat the same Actress (Sue Wallace) who played Mavis in 'Experience Preferred but not Essential'?

[@jezt42]

“I don’t read those bits” 😂

[@bananabuttons6637]

I've known people have super long engagements and I always wondered why they didn't just get on with it!. Doesn't have to be expensive.

[@A-small-amount-of-peas]

Loved this but still dont know anyone who called a telephone deodoriser

[@fannycraddock99]

We used to have them at work. They also used to clean the artificial plants!

[@peterhagan8454]

Jim's been engaged for 16 years ha

[@spmoran4703]

That's not long.

[@victoria_atmosphere9290]

Who plays the Mother, she could have been my own.

[@jonathanwilkinson1461]

I think she was a regular customer in Open all hours..

[@iwasglad122]

The mother of Jim Broadbent here was Frances Cox. Played many roles including the miserable librarian in Hinge & Bracket's series, Dear Ladies.

[@peterdickinson7842]

I would often sing O Lord won't you buy me a Mercedes-Benz I changed the words to I Lord won't you have for me a V W how will that trouble you? Long live Victoria Wood!

[@davidsimm805]

Don't go washing dog again with it

[@josephlenehan4461]

Joseph and today TV

[@ClipontheEar]

This is clearly derived from ‘The World’s Most Boring Man’ by Palin and Jones, Ripping Yarns’, and none the less funny for that.

[@lynne523]

Do you think ?

[@zeddeka]

The structure is largely based on the BBC fly on the wall documentary series "The Family"

[@bowler8]

@@zeddeka yes, remember that

[@peterdickinson7842]

O what a friend, O what a friend, O what a friend is my Amigo who made Himself of No reputation to save us from a fate worse than death! Respect the well attested Text. Victoria Wood understood that laughter is heap big medicine. What delight her passion engendered. For the Greatest Befriender Physician sent His disciples on mission But they would listen yet not understand The First Commandment. Jesus fulfilled that one. Love God with all your heart soul and mind and strength. No He didn't live by bread alone. And they we are dressed in beauty not their own or ours. The Holy Spirit's guidance and the Holy Scriptures are permanent fixtures. The foundation is already laid. We make the grade by imputed righteousness of Christ His efficacious blood rightly understood has been shed so we can approach boldly The King of kings On His Throne and soar to realms unknown! But we now are not our own. Or alone without hope. His Name has been given under heaven unto men. You know that you've received and been born again. For Satan is nobody's friend and his intention Is to destroy as many as he can to join him in hell with the fallen angels. But God's abundant grace and mercy is new every morning! So need the warnings of impending judgment. You think you'll be here tomorrow? Don't procrastinate seek Him The Way The Truth The Life, What can a Pope offer? Filling coffers with gold. Mockers and scoffers real what they sow. The most roguish guy I know is not lying. a k a Forest Gump.

[@A-small-amount-of-peas]

Wtf was that?!

[@MegaStig25]

Liver aux poivre