Big C - Fascinating Aïda

[@JeffRyman69]

As a survivor (so far) of three kinds of cancer I love these ladies and this song.

[@danielpayne500]

same here as well Love it at the end So yes perfect... !!! Go girls yes

[@Hotarubi-dono]

Terribly underrated group, simply amazing.

[@osiristherebirth]

Loved this ❤. As someone who has been reluctantly forced to live with this ongoing enbuggerance living rent-free in my body, I very much relate to this. Thank you, Dilly and FA.

[@bartomiejstarnawski6599]

I just adore Dame Adele Anderson and her mezzo. Long live the queen.

[@WelshHomo87]

She's not a dame

[@bartomiejstarnawski6599]

@@WelshHomo87 And you - oh, great judge !- it is obvious, that you are not a Gentleman🤦‍♂And of course you never will be one :D

[@Feisenbach]

She's not a mezzo either. In her own words she's a bass.

[@ryanodriscoll]

As a cancer survivor myself, that was spot on.

[@ryanodriscoll]

@seriously rabid gaming Glad to hear it!

[@danielpayne500]

i am 20 years + free

[@warrensunderland9977]

One of my favourite acts in the world. See them regularly in Edinburgh and am never disappointed. Go Aida!

[@dahlyiadubonnet]

I love these ladies and I'm thrilled to see Dame Adele beat this nasty disease! I can relate and they're spot on! 🥰🥰🥰

[@formicapple2]

Just discovered these ladies. Hinge and Bracket comes to mind. Wonderful.

[@DaisyChain1729]

I've only just discovered them as well and funnily enough Hinge and Bracket were my first thought too. Love them

[@martinbelk9858]

My dear friend Catherine and several friends and I sat in this very show and laughed til' we cried at "Fuck You Big C". Sadly, we lost Catherine today, and this is all I could think of to post. Thank you ladies for the joy.

[@GeorgiaGeorgette]

I'm truly sorry for your loss.

[@twinkletoes.9968]

Condolences on your loss.

[@PopeBarley]

Very sorry for your loss. Going by her taste in comedy, we've all lost a legend we've sadly never the chance to meet

[@hunkhk]

So sorry for your loss and thanks for sharing, life is so precious and laughter and love is one of it's most precious gifts. Remember the good times

[@hunkhk]

@@PopeBarley that's a great comment

[@stevenlunniss]

Having just had my all clear after treatment, that is so true! Fabulous!

[@davidblyth5495]

As a survivor, I understand the reactions! My response generally was "Weeds, don't die - don't worry!" It shocks but breaks the ice! And many laugh

[@JoanneRowland-p7n]

I saw them live few days ago absolutely loved it definately going again was absolutely fab best laugh ive had in a long timen xxx

[@zimnaya]

This has SO cheered me up! God bless Adele! Wonderful, wonderful!

[@martinhopley]

It wasn't cancer but a brain tumour I was born with, found at 14 and then became terminal when I was 16 but survived for reasons my doctors can't explain, I love this song. Rings so many bells with what I went through and not least the simple power of laughter to help lift your spirits. Thank you (p.s. Your other songs are bloody good as well!)

[@lindaireland2751]

Weldone! Oh they are fantastic I love dillie shes so funny they are al great tho

[@martinhopley]

@@lindaireland2751 Thanks. By god we need cheering up these days and these women are definitely part of the solution! I've also been trying to spread my own bit of joy to the world but it's taken me 3 years to get the media to do 1 story about it. Still, it was the BBC and Alice did a wonderful piece: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49904433

[@lindaireland2751]

@@martinhopley yes we do these days. Sometimes miracles do happen. Life is a funny thing at times

[@lindaireland2751]

@@martinhopley great story good luck hope u keep fighting

[@eddiegreenheart]

If you haven't sang this for "Stand Up 2 Cancer", it needs to happen 💚

[@Dragon-Slay3r]

Cheers

[@PumpkinBecki]

Gorgeous girls! Thank you for your fabulousness, you never fail to brighten my day xx

[@naiad5]

I absolutely love, love, lovity love you wonderful ladies! You make the world a better place. Huge abrazos from Spain. xx

[@allannicho1]

Brilliant

[@cogidubnus1953]

Bless you ladies...I love you all and readily worship at any altar you care to mention...out of the deepest respect..

[@ryanhuntington9852]

I cry each time I hear this song. Thank you so much.

[@samanthacarrington1745]

My tune of the moment 😎 just going to sing it to my sister now 🎤👩‍🎤🎶 4Q BIG C 💅

[@pacmus8873]

Marvellous, as ever. Glad the Dame is looking so well xx

[@weetalabah]

having started treatment and still going through it THIS had made me LAUGH I normally rely on Always Look on The Bright Side of Life but this has replaced it THANK YOU SO MUCH xx

[@miriambucholtz9315]

Nothing can give you a quick jolt of strength better than a good dose of gallows humor. It certainly helped kick PTSD's ass from having been in a mental institution.

[@atruebrit6452]

if only you could give up sugar bread and alcohol...

[@TattyDarling]

We would love to see you in Australia!!!!

[@qwertyTRiG]

You people are awesome.

[@januzzell8631]

Absolutely AWESOME! Well Done Ladies!!

[@mikehudson8884]

Great to see the girls again. I hope to get to seem them finally when they next tour. Thank goodness for You Tube.

[@NeilHollis]

Love these ladies wonder were there are love the lights in that colour glass

[@Sarahlou21]

Love you ladies thank you for doing a wonderful song and hoping you are well x

[@zennor_man]

Bless you all & more power to you....

[@karlwood9051]

you girls are my MY HEROS thank you for everything

[@oliviawalker-mister3044]

“Not in a nutribullet!” Spat out my bloody tea! 😭

[@danielpayne500]

lol Near pee myself lol Yes

[@AustenMerritt]

Wonderful, had it last year!!!

[@simonbroome7156]

Just found you and Love it . Thankyou So much

[@marybrown7193]

Exactly, all so true.

[@Webminky]

LOL, good job! Big loves for the Big C remission :)

[@MyAction5000]

Love it!!! Please come to Australia :)

[@TattyDarling]

Anthony Julian yes!!!

[@Hieronymous69]

Dave Allen spoke of two women who always attended all the funerals in their village. At the end of one funeral one of the women asked the widow "Er, what did he die of?" the widow answered "Big C". "Oh! He drowned?"

[@jayseabie215]

Brilliant! I nearly pissed myself! lol

[@davidjordan9759]

I thought she was politely expressing what she thought of him.

[@jeremymarylucilleclaytonhi1925]

gloriously irrepressible as always!

[@nathanfirby2953]

I adore these ladies. Why aren't they on the telly? So glad Adele is well. Long may they live and continue to spread happiness. p.s. Waiting for them to rip into Trump with anticipation. :-)

[@kimwignall8070]

Nathan Firby q

[@marilyncox7319]

They were on tv about 1986 I think. I was in a show called Forty Minutes and showed them making their first record. I think it was an EP. The producer was awful and out of all their amazing repertoire chose ‘Fish on a Plate’. I thought Dilly Keane was going to kill him and for the cover they were in red crinoline type dresses, it was awful seeing them so miserable. I have been their fan ever since but have only managed to see them live once. My husband did not want to go, but at the end he did not want to leave. Wonderful, clever and talented women. Love you FC x x x

[@discogareth]

Nathan Firby small world, fancy seeing you here!

[@PanglossDr]

How great in this PC world that there are some people for whom nothing is sacred.

[@garethaskew-hargreaves6549]

PanglossDr you should look up their song ‘Taboo’, which is also along the lines of nothing is sacred

[@MsCherade9]

Simply put they do it by punching up, not down. They are wonderful people who I've had the pleasure of knowing just a little in the past 8 years. Adele has been through far more than most healthier but she has remained a champion of the underdog, as have they all.

[@sandrariccardi1378]

Oh, thank you for this!!!!

[@elizabethcoopersoutham6573]

ab fab ! thank you , Ladies for taking up this challenge !

[@BGCW_86]

Bloody love this 🙂👌🏻

[@lindaireland2751]

Great as ever girls so sorry u had that horrible big c it's good to talk about it my nan died 23yrs ago of that plus a few others in between its very painful&horrible to watch someone u love go through it.. an even more painful for the people u leave behind I think this is great well done xxxx😘

[@iand2475]

Bravo***

[@hellenwootton8597]

As a current fighter i have to say i found this hilarious thank you

[@twinkletoes.9968]

I hope 🤞 that you feel better soon.

[@popazz1]

I've seen FA just the once, at the Lyceum if memory serves. I'd not heard of them and was staying with friends in Chiswick, must've been the early 90s as I'd only just been diagnosed with HIV and was feeling decidedly doom laden. So my friends dragged me along ...... and oh my word, I was gasping for air, they were tremendous. As I recall the line up then was Dilly, Adele and Izzy Van Randwycke. They are sharp witted intelligent and incredibly funny and it's a joy to see they're still going strong.

[@rubystone493]

Adele 💕

[@JohnPanto]

Bendigedig!! Brilliant!!

[@axionth27sharonannKendel-jk6ot]

As someone with cancer I couldnt wait to see and hear this ,put a big smile on my face 😅especially the line about the stoma, mine is called willy 😂

[@DesmondsDonders]

Love it :-)

[@SH-sz4cj]

😍

[@leefisher6366]

Hi there, Fascinating Aida. If you like, please use the modern version I've just come up with to reprise the song I've just heard. (By the way, well done, Adele). Big C... used to be cancer, you'll agree. But now it is twenty-twenty, big C.... Big C? you've guessed it Covid starts with 'C', (though quite coincidentally)... big C. So at home we're isolating, while outside the world is waiting to restart. Are we social distancing? Well, here's the thing, most people genuinely aren't. If you go outside and cough, folks around will bugger off, afraid of you. Though it might be just dyspepsia or some other kind of far less lethal flu. Big C (big C, big C) has changed it's meaning obviously, while it still looms portentously, big C Big C, the second one for you and me, to stuff our lives up completely, big C. [The bridge, and most of the rest of the song, can stay exactly the same. Yes, we never learn.] [But how about this to end on:] Big C, now pubs are opening let's see, if people can act sensibly (some hope) Big C Big C, now let's invoke the 'rule of three', what is the third catastrophe? It's bound to begin with 'C'!

[@RichBoden]

Just shared it with a dear friend who beat Big C around the same time.

[@Nezaray82]

Please let your friend know that if it were to return (as it has for me) but won’t for her I am sure, than she will still win the fight by shining the light of love in her life! As I am sure she does! Remain happy 😊 and strong 💪 love Nerida.

[@hotlavatube]

Reminds me of a Mrs. Brown's Boys episode where Mrs. Brown tells Winnie that Bridge McGonagall "has a big C". Winnie responds, "After 12 kids Agnes" misunderstanding what the "C" stands for. ;-)

[@roblloyd1879]

Had bowel cancer, Right hemicolectomy and clear so far 17 years later. Keeping my fingers crossed.

[@Chris-dm1je]

The thing that used to get on my nerves after my cancer treatmemt was when, at work everyone was aware that I was weakened and exhausted because I was on lighter duties, and they thought they were being helpful by saying "You're looking well, though." I really had to resist saying "Well whoop-de-fucking-doo, that's alright, then".

[@FantomsNephew]

❤

[@winnington6923]

as a person who had cancer a couple years ago, some of the “diets” and “medications” that your friends suggest is laughable even by medieval doctor standards.

[@lindaireland2751]

Yes I think they mean well but don't quite get it unless u or someone very close to u has it

[@Dragon-Slay3r]

Big C very sloppy way of singing

[@gaggymott9159]

Growths as big as gourds...you may want to go to Lourdes.... Hilarious!!! 🤣🤣❤❤❤

[@gameXylinder]

Amazing! Fuck Big C indeed!

[@brianflynn2791]

I've done big C twice and kicked its arse so I refuse to call it 'big' c but apart from that I fucking love this, thank you ladies.

[@ashleyp.4932]

It sounds like she was trying to hold it together, when saying "But we're Fascinating Aida and we've never shied away from a thoroughly tasteless joke..."

[@malenko316]

Can't believe I'm admitting to this, but when Adele sings the line "when you have growths as big as gourds you may want to go to Lourdes" I was initially confused (for embarrassingly long time actually) because I couldn't figure out what cancer had to do with the Home of Cricket (Lords)! lol

[@elizabethmoorehead2136]

I thought the same😂

[@psychogreenie]

Fucking brave. x

[@spencerdyke4654]

In the spirit of the song, 'FK cancer'!!

[@thebigc1462]

OI! Take that back!

[@thedolphin5428]

I find clapping someone who has remitted from cancer a bit odd. Do they boo someone who has succumbed to cancer.

[@heatherrose9373]

People who love God and have faith don't have any problem talking about cancer ; from personal experience with cancer. When you spend every waking minute making fun of Gods grace and calling it humor , you're not going to find these faithful ones.

[@johnuk5974]

Heather Rose cancer is tough and the last thing you need is some religious zealot with a superior attitude looking down their nose and telling people what they should and shouldn’t believe in. That doesn’t seem very Christian to me.

[@duncanwilson7390]

Heather Rose if your "God" existed, there wouldn't be cancer. Think about it, eh?

[@elizabethmoorehead2136]

Thought humour was god given. Kindness also. BW

[@chipmunck6]

I am new here is one of them a man?

[@rljmachen]

No.

[@barpypardlo]

Always feel that it's a shame that they have to include an obscenity.

[@MsCherade9]

Then you don't understand them, or their music.

[@helenw6594]

They don't "have to", they choose to, and so they should!

[@elizabethmoorehead2136]

Sometimes it just adds to the sentiment