Acorn Antiques Lebanese Episode 

I was in Cumbria judging a Diana Rigg lookalike Competition

No

no

It was a real series. Crossroads.

Yes

It was..Crossroads, rushed home from school to watch it each evening

+Glenn Smith That line made me spit out my Earl Grey.

So, how 'huge' are you?

Perhaps not as 'huge' as i thought

Myself, I have been trying to loose weight. I have been more of a 'huge' fan of Victoria Wood than intended.

+effyleven When you say, 'loose weight', do you mean it dangles or moves about in a random and concerting manner?

More DIS-concerting, actually, but yes, that as well. :-) D'you know, I looked at that extra 'o' for about two minutes before deciding to leave it there?!

Ben Death is god’s way of saying slow down.

This sketch was not part of the original Victoria Wood series, but was a one off sketch written and performed in 1996 to celebrate 60 years of BBC Television. It aired on Sunday 3rd November 1996.

+donkeycobblers yip too funny

I'm a wheelchair user and that line plus the actors in wheelchairs had me crying with laughter!

I'm a wheelchair user too, and I wish there WERE more jobs for disabled people at the BBC. That's true diversity.

In an old Golden Girls episode, one of the characters mixed up lesbian with lebanese. There you go - one sentence!

This sketch was made in 1996 to celebrate 60 years of BBC Television, it was played into the studio audience in front of a star studded audience from so many BBC shows, which is why David and Nicholas were in the audience.

Now and again Victoria would laugh for real. Back in the original episodes I notice Duncan Prestion who played Clifford trying do hard not to laugh, even once covering his face with a handkerchief when Mrs Overall appeared.

John King oh.

The production values on "Acorn Antiques" are deliberately appallingly low. It's a parody of the worst of the worst soap operas (think "Crossroads") with their flubbed lines, missed cues, dreadful timing, wobbly sets, and indescribable acting.

Big oooof

What? Not even a smirk for the Archbishop of Canterbury's spam curry?

I believe it’s satire… Which shows how relevant it still is unfortunately!

She isn't . She's satirising the far right mentality that promotes the view that Asians shouldn't be seen on TV or have programming made that acknowledges elements of Asian culture . The same with users of wheelchairs. In the early episodes it's clear she wrote the continuity announcer as someone with very conservative views such as "all these strikers should be grateful for having a job " during the miners' strike and "treating that all too familiar female ailment ....that's not a word I care to read out I don't think , fortunately it's not something I'm ever likely to get ...and if I did get it I certainly wouldn't put yoghurt on it " . Along with, at closedown, "our local radio station is still broadcasting , and there's still chance to catch some of that very popular nightly phone-in, so, if you want to tune in to listen to a bunch of ill-informed left-wing megalomaniacs, that's 373 VHF or 951 metres medium Wave , good night ."

Which joke?

You’re the snowflake hun.

@@nativenewlondoner Ha Ha Ha! Funniest thing I've read all year! Far from it.

@@andrewhaines8603 Victoria wood would piss on you. She had no time for whiney sad old reactionaries

@@andrewhaines8603 Butthurt how much do I care? Not much.

@@tonycavanagh1929 I feel you've misinterpreted my comment. I'd love to see this and many other comedy sketches shown on screen, but sadly there are those who find even the slightest remark made about a "minority" offensive. It's sad that Victoria Wood was taken from us too early. I'd love to see what she would have done with Covid and lockdown!

john adams

Yes now that genuinely talented and funny people like Vic have gone,they certainly are!

Given that this sketch is 25 years old, ooof.

@@nativenewlondoner "Asians, wheelchairs". How right you are in 2021, The BBC is filling up with ethnics, disabled, the physiognomically challenged, screaming gays, looney lefties, Jewish people, friends and family of the top employees and time wasters charading as entertainers. Tragic. In my youth, The Beeb was a gold standard, now, it's course, shallow and biased.

There was no canned laughter. This was shown in front of a live studio audience. This sketch was filmed for the 60th anniversary gala of BBC Television, shown in front of an audience of 500 people in Studio TC1 at BBC Television Centre.