Tracey Ullman - Kay Finds Her Cousin

[@Falconlibrary]

Tracey Ullmann is a national treasure. Which means she can do whatever she wants.

[@TheMijman]

And she certainly does. Funny or not...

[@Smartychase]

Not that she does

[@donnawoodford6641]

... within the law, of course.

[@thatssofetch3481]

Donna Woodford Maybe to an extent. She can steal a car or two, maybe sell some drugs.

[@marku.9644]

I feel like the people above didn't get the reference lol

[@robicarm]

"it's just you and me, you don't need anyone else" evil mom sneer😈

[@renacleerican7824]

I am French, and I have just discovered Tracy Ullman. She is brilliant and so cute as an old lady!

[@lass-inangeles7564]

I think Tracy needs to call Norman Bates on her mom. Who needs enemies with narcissistic mother like this?

[@joannewilson1021]

Mother's like Kay's really exist, sadly.

[@laurasmith14]

Indeed they do.

[@dreza4589]

To feminists' the mother is a heroine

[@82892869hi]

@@dreza4589 do these “feminists” also make you stub your toes on corners too?

[@SDoesNotKnow]

@@dreza4589 At least your so-called "feminists" would know how to properly use an apostrophe.

[@turkmenistanofficial2334]

@@dreza4589you don’t know what a feminist is I see

[@safeinmyheart1]

‘How an old narcissist keeps control’.

[@blondesmommy]

I think Tracey looks truly elderly in this skit and her acting is so poignant. She is just amazing.

[@sunnygirl87]

"Dad's sisters were trollops. Dad's brother was, "Nancy Boy.""

[@susier.3687]

LMAO!

[@vishalchhabra2237]

For very good reason.

[@JudgeJulieLit]

And (not her words exactly), "I made 'Dad' a cuckold."

[@roberthancox]

Absolutely priceless🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@arnbrandy]

That was terrifying because it does happen I reality.

[@lisacolbert5987]

You can tell Tracy has great affection for “Kay”.

[@hoshboshbgosh514]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH, just saw the pen hanging around Tracey's neck. Classic!

[@iamneverwrong6635]

I love this woman so much, best comedian ever!!

[@pipsushi]

This one is actually kinda sad 😅

[@Smartychase]

It's wicked

[@ThePossumone]

Very sad as so close to the truth of controlling old hags 😢

[@whatalsaid]

Tracey is a legend. And I'm glad to see Kay again after all these years. Kind of sad we didn't get to see much of her other old characters on the new show though. I'd have liked to see Where Sydney Kross or Fern Rosenthal were years later.

[@scattysafari7742]

The older actress is the one that fell down the stairs in the IT Crowd. Nice to see an older lady still working her craft!

[@JudgeJulieLit]

Eileen Atkins, as from Upstairs, Downstairs?

[@zackzeman6449]

@@JudgeJulieLit no

[@robertsmith5970]

I became friendly with the Elderly Mother of a friend. She confided in me one day that one of her sons was to a Soldier and another to the husband of an old lady who went to bingo!!!

[@JudgeJulieLit]

So, not just "old soldiers," but old "trollops" can fade away into grey eminences.

[@rosegreensummer]

Tracey Ullmann is great, but her elderly mother is magnificent... i want that actress in more things!!!!

[@loredelore7286]

I had a neighbour like Kay same voice everything

[@HipsterBlood]

Kay is based on a real woman Tracey used to talk to on the phone at a bank. Maybe it’s her. 😱

[@whatsupwithrodan]

Reminds me a bit of my grandmother, she could hold a vendetta against someone for a slight that happened 50 years earlier.

[@susanmoran5226]

So could my mother.

[@barquerojuancarlos7253]

so funny ...

[@2anthro]

Our stupid-family vendetta was about a hat with red feathers that was worn to a funeral. How could anyone even remember something like that?! Then to bring it up when all the involved had been dead 50-years.

[@lflint3278]

@@2anthro or 90 years. Lol.

[@Leonion6]

Same here. My grandmother had a best friend for a long time. Then that woman once said something to her and just like that the friendship is gone. She even crossed out her name in the phone notebook etc. And never until her death (which happened about 40 years later) she revealed to me or my mom what exactly happened, what was said that angered her so much. But given that we do know the exact reasons for some of her other grudges, it was probably something minor.

[@davidj5910]

Mom is sooo horrible! Constantly lying to keep her home.

[@51Saffron]

I know this is comedy but it makes me sad because I know of two women like her. One was withdrawn and shy and she was taking care of both her parents, they didn't care that she had no life of her own. When her mother died, she had to leave her job to take care of her father who had gone blind. Her whole life was that of a caregiver and her parents would always dominate and make her feel guilty if she wanted some kind of life. We would invite her out, and she said she couldn't go. So this skit and other skits like this on her show bring that back to me.

[@MariaLopez-hc2nm]

51Saffron I know, taking the Micky about very personal hurtful stuff. Not good.imo

[@donnawoodford6641]

...to keep her daughter stuck, confined to a miserable life that can't nor mustn't be better than the cards that mother was handed. ☹️

[@Jay-os5nw]

Who plays the mother in this. Her facial expressions are priceless.

[@strivingformindfulness2356]

Joan Linder is credited as "Kay's Mother" in several episodes of "Tracey Ullman's Show."

[@ethanomcbride]

This is my favorite horror movie

[@sallyroddy6566]

Tracey is sooo talented! That old lady is fab hahah!

[@moyeeli3440]

Excellent... Funny and sad.

[@JudgeJulieLit]

Kay's mother (who at "103" looks and acts amazingly younger), who begat Kay by a "sailor" whose name she did not know, is, if anyone, a "trollop."

[@RK-ep8qy]

JudgeJulieLit I think the point was that she lied to keep Kay at home, I very much doubt the bio dad was a sailor. Seems she chose that because there'd be no questions to ask about him.

[@erinm3567]

​@@RK-ep8qyI agree. Her mom looked panicked when they were talking about Kay visiting family in Australia.

[@tobiass2622]

Watching her Merkel parody before, Tracey will always be mein Chancelorette to me.

[@maddiek1980]

Reminds me of so many old women (and men) in my family. Such a bunch of narcissistic sociopaths!

[@shanehughes3511]

Same.

[@ClepsidraSideral]

Oh my!

[@withlovefromrussia]

Welcome in the club.😦

[@thyshaupt]

hadyn, the sweet old ladies of today are the sluts of sixty years ago. same goes for the holy uncles holding their grand children this is woven into our social fabric, and no amount of covid will change it

[@Sawrattan]

Mum should meet Catherine Tate's Nan

[@susanmoran5226]

Oh boy, there would be war.

[@gruweldaad]

Oh my heart ❤ the way she says “jammy”.

[@orion8835]

Oh poor, yearning, bowl hair cut, stuck in the clothing style of 1978 , values of the codependent spinster with a albatross geriatric HAG of a lower middle class city burb semi detached residing that is this creation of Ullman’s called : “Kay”. The reality is there were an awful lot of these gals around the SouthEast of England. That sofa is beyond. I’m glad to see this frump again these days on the show she is hilarious. And drawn with incredible detail.

[@jesseleeward2359]

Very poignant sketch. Very sad

[@stefanahlhorn9937]

Bad Mother. I´d lock her up in a home, like... Shady Pines!!

[@bwenluck9812]

@stefan 😂

[@peterkowald2304]

Brilliant comedy with a hell of a twist!

[@kettle2293]

These are so conflicting to watch. :(

[@RealSuperRando]

Tracy Ullman is the best.

[@tabithamwaura8585]

She does not know the mum in laws name.🤣🤣🤣

[@LisaOwen-jx1st]

The lady who played her mother was brilliant.

[@seanmyes2650]

so meeeean!! but very well played from all of them!! greatold actress the mom too!!

[@groomdoggi]

Love that chair the mum is sitting in.

[@Aloha808]

Kay's mother died in the States just before the "end of the world", and Kay could finally live it up. It happened on "Tracey Takes On ... The End Of The World". So much for the story continuity...

[@nationaltreasured7309]

Maybe she was faking. It should be noted that Kay worked in paper products in NY in the Fox show. She was in a bank in California in Tracey Takes On. She gets around, Our Kay. lol

[@JudgeJulieLit]

@@nationaltreasured7309 No wonder her mother fears for Kay's virtue.

[@direktorpresident]

Paternity is a legal fiction. (James Joyce). Yet people trace their lineage back to Arthur II

[@melliecrann-gaoth4789]

I could get sick laughing. Brilliant.

[@jrusselison]

Horrifying selfish parents 🤮

[@Bruin_ffs]

Norma Bates

[@HipsterBlood]

Electric Gypsy lol, love it! Kay tried killing her in Tracey's HBO series "Tracey Takes On".

[@Sally-lg1vn]

What a genius Tracey ullman is!!!❤❤

[@erinm3567]

I wonder if Kay's mom is lying about him not being her Dad bc she looks panicked when Kay and Debbie are talking about Kay visiting family in Australia.

[@Darius89x]

This scene made me wish that she would’ve did like she did in the 90s with Kay’s mother and keep her off screen and silent. This scene was just mean and hurtful because Kay is one of my favorite characters and seeing her happy makes me so happy. Was disappointed that she didn’t get a chance to travel far from home for a little while

[@Darius89x]

@CitizenOWorld oh wow I didn’t know that she wasn’t a real person 😱😱😑😑 thank you for pointing out the obvious because i certainly can’t differentiate fiction from reality 😑😑 what would I do without you to point out the obvious? Thank you so much ☺️

[@Darius89x]

@CitizenOWorld it was quite obvious that I was being very sarcastic. Not delusional at all but thanks buttercup 🙃🙃

[@sarahmariah100]

Wow, beautiful and upsetting, like The Family sketches from Carol Burnette

[@beautifulspirit7420]

Kay needs a good therapist!

[@curtcollett2893]

Somehow I can imagine Kay on the set of Taxi looking for a long lost cousin and finding out it's Louie.

[@juliancoquelet2654]

this one makes me sad

[@MisterDramatic]

This is crazy to watch on so many levels. To see Kay would care enough to change her hair; saying "mum" instead of "mother"; to even see the actual mother on-screen. Oh, Kay 😂

[@xenophile84]

Aww, this is actually so sad!

[@brucewilliams8714]

Can anyone tell me who played the mother, she's priceless?

[@maxpenn6374]

She is! And she plays the part of a wicked old biddy so well.

[@rogerbarton497]

Looking at the eyes I would say Catherine Tate, after half a day in makeup! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Tate%27s_Nan

[@JudgeJulieLit]

I believe she is actress Eileen Atkins, of Upstairs, Downstairs fame.

[@brucewilliams8714]

@@JudgeJulieLit My word. I can't believe she's aunt Ruth Bellingham in Doc Martin. Really, Dame Eileen Atkins? What a difference dentures make. Thanks for your reply.

[@JudgeJulieLit]

@@brucewilliams8714 Yw ... but it is my guess, as the imdB cast listing for this Tracey Ullman series does not credit the actress here playing Kay Clark's mother.

[@oliviamae3281]

Belligerence, gives long life to people.

[@marcraygun6290]

Given in to your hatred......power of the dark side etc

[@adamahmad1262]

She should meet Sophia Petrilo.Also Kay must love Dorothy- they suffered the same fate.

[@MegF142857]

DNA test time!

[@sandywhat2429]

Chilling story really.

[@CityThatCannotBeCaptured]

Her Australian accent is APPALLING.

[@TheBasher-_-]

That went Dark 😂

[@finch45lear]

I love Tracey !!!

[@ROBYNMARKOW]

They finally showed Kay's mum!

[@abdurehimhudulov4789]

the mother is so sweet

[@andrewmark2783]

The cousin sounds more Kiwi than Australian!

[@roberthancox]

Truly terrifying but hilarious and sad at the same time

[@LoveAlwaysAlwaysLove]

This was sad.

[@SusieM2016]

Break free Kay!!!!

[@IFStravinsky]

Awwww.

[@MrBrownnn696]

The mom was just lovely

[@thatoneguy6595]

Is isnt the real kay clarke. I think tracey may have had to alter her just enough to be able to broadcast her, due to hbo possibly owning the rights to her old characters?

[@HipsterBlood]

D Mira Tracey owns the character. Kay started out as a sketch on the British show Saturday Live. She’s revamped her four times now.

[@weremyjiggins89]

Oh, Mother, that was 78 years ago!

[@jessric5947]

I was really saddened

[@colinmcmahon3500]

just keep singing.

[@susanmoran5226]

It's bitter sweet comedy. I laughed. And Tracy is a good comedy writer who' s characters are believable. But I had a mother like this, she wasn't nice.

[@ryanwhite7398]

poor kay she must be so embarrassed after her mother having caused her to look as if she and her cousin had been decieved. opefully her cousin is understading and they can keep their friendship. That old battle-axe was uing every excuse in the book to keep kay ny her side, though to be fair she probably felt the need out of fear of abondement

[@chrisnatmills7802]

Loves this

[@ThePossumone]

Funny because it's so so true

[@samdumaquis2033]

The mother is horrible

[@kimaglioti7775]

Hahaaaaaaaaaaaa I love this nutty woman.

[@chae226]

Why the hell does she sound like Mrs. Molly Weasley?😂

[@mrheyfuckoff1]

I want to appreciate Tracy's comedic genius but as an Australian I can't concentrate on anything other than that shit attempt at our accent xD

[@colinmcmahon3500]

He was right. Its still ticking.

[@Dallas-Nyberg]

I know it's supposed to be comedy, but I detest old crones with sarcastic, bad attitudes like that.

[@L-mo]

This is more sad than funny

[@JudgeJulieLit]

Comitragedy.

[@__seeker__]

Grey Gardens

[@jude175]

Where in god's name did they find mum? Her name should be on the credits if there are any credits.

[@colinmcmahon3500]

Hey, Mister? You forgot your briefcase ag..

[@nonenoneonenonenone]

Not nearly long enough. That's enough story line for at least ten minutes.

[@dxmxo9427]

Wth bahaha 🤣

[@ryanwhite7398]

kays mother was terrible, reminds me of the beldam from coraline

[@JohnSmith-lk8cy]

ouch!

[@jamesha175]

kay looks like roseanne's mom

[@e.jenima7263]

As Awfull as Kays mother is in her attempt to Keep her isolated and too herself Old people do that bc they are scared of being left alone and bc . they are very awair of how awful they are anfd know there kids and grandkids would leave them in a heartbeat if they had a big extended family to go to. its a awfull Dick move really

[@allwrighty100]

How can this be so funny and sad?

[@carlfrano6384]

Comedy or is it tragedy?

[@marcraygun6290]

I had a secret Australian aunty , seems to be a thing.

[@peterstaples1]

Oh, boy. That was far too close to home to be funny ...

[@bernicecollins9641]

Real life alright

[@anastasia10017]

so sad.

[@billmuddy5800]

looooool loooooool loooooool looooool

[@CityThatCannotBeCaptured]

What sort of a feckin accent is that!!!!!