[100 Things] My DVDs: Victoria Wood Live In Your Own Home & Richard Digance His Greatest Bits

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As Monty Python used to say, and now for something completey different!

I like comedians, and my favourite by far is Victoria Wood. She does both stand up and sketches in her routine, has written and directed TV shows and plays, plus she sings wonderful comic songs whilst playing the piano. I find her hilarious, and never more so than in her routine from 1944 entitled 'Live in Your Own Home'. If you've never heard her sing 'Barry and Freda', go directly to YouTube and look it up - you'll cry with laughter, I swear!

As for Richard Digance, he was a stand up comic of the 80s/90s that also relied on witty poems and clever songs (accompanied by his guitar playing) to entertain, and that he certainly did. My personal favourite songs/skits are 100 Remembers and Sod's Law - again, definitely worth looking up on YouTube for the laugh!

Of all comedians, these two are definitely my faves, and even though I can quote their acts word for word at times, I still crack up every time I watch these dvds :)

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[hollymac-79.livejournal.com]

I'm going to have to check both of them out on You Tube. They sound brilliant!

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They are very funny, but are perhaps a little dated and a little too British/English in their humour for those across the pond... but you might like them anyway :)

[florencia7.livejournal.com]

They sound great! :D

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They are very funny, though you non-Brit peops might struggle with the accents and some of the jokes that are very much based in our country's ways! lol