Tracey Ullman is the Original Marge Simpson - The Graham Norton Show 

+Evija3000 yeah the colour looks good but I love the blowdry she's had - like the volume shine & styling

pennydesouza Yeah. I meant it's gorgeous altogether, including the styling.

Hi I think I accidentally pushed the report button on you. Have no glasses on yet (just woked up) I am so sorry about that :(

+Lola Lolita I wish all commenters in RU-vid are as sweet as you ! :)

+Audaxi I think you are right :(

Darreyl Henderson Agreed! She was just doing impersonations of her fellow cast members doing the voices for the shorts.

I feel cheated and I'm thinking about suing somebody or other. I hate cheap come-on titles.

@Lola Baria Okay, but it's a deceptive joke, so GN gets a wee punch in the face, but can be spared the knee to the groin.

Darreyl Henderson D'oh! 😆

jiggus figgus I wonder how she feels about The Simpsons now seeing as how successful they have become they would have to be one of the most famous families in the history of television

Actually Tracey Ullman when she had her show in the 80’s. She put the cartoon The Simpsons in her show. As small as I was I was probably six or seven years old at the time. I remember the Tracey Ullman show on Fox.

@Pete Jones Easy: I had never watched the Tracey Ullman show before.

Lowenstien

Ah...don't you mean... youngest heard of the Simpson's from watching tracy ullman Theybjad a short clip shown during her comedy show

@@HumanimalChannel what the Hell was that?? What did you actually mean to.say??

+Zarkow Thank You

***** It is very much how it went. Look for the Conan sit-down with the Simpson writers, or read the books from the events...

***** You don't think that the actual WRITERS for the Simpson show may know about what happened?! (Conan was one of the writers early on the show too.)

+David Roberts The creators all corroborate this story

+David Roberts And yet you don't provide even one of your "reliable sources".

kbamm69 Back in the late 80s? How was it like? What did you think about the simpsons at the time? Did you ever expect it to become as popular as it is now? Sorry about the many questions.

Michael Lugo In 1989 in Australia, I first saw a short Simpsons skit before "Turner and Hooch" at the cinema when they would sometimes show a short film with the previews. It was quite bedazzling with its striking colours, distinct voices and edgey humour. I think people were in a state of shock and rapture and were left thinking "What WAS that?? Did I just imagine that?"

dan man:I watched The Tracy Ulman show.The Simpson's were small skits with no voice overs.Then started to have voices.The pilot episode was a The Christmas Special.I knew I liked it.Then everyone was talking about it,about how funny it was.The rest is cartoon history.

They ALWAYS had voice over.

Yeah, it was The Tracey Ullman Show

+Wullie32 but she made a perfect imitation...priceless

+Wullie32 She and Julie Kavner got on really well in _Tracy Takes On..._, that was a brilliant HBO show, much better than her Fox thing.

You're right. It was on her show but she never did Marge, Julie did. The title on this is incorrect.

Wullie32 Julie was Rhoda's little sister

Wullie32 WHY DID YOU CHANGE YOUR COMMENT YOU EVIL ANTI

Hahahahahahahahaha!

whos your uncle

Because she doesn’t deserve any.

Umm She he hated the Simpsons skits and wanted them off her show and only asked for credit when they became popular...

Take a look at the eighties. THere's a reason James Brooks waited for two years for her to have a baby and then come back to work. Nobody else could have pulled off a show like this. Comedy of course is in large part subjective, but Sam Simon has worked with some of the biggest talents around and says that she is one of the all time television greats. The guy may have been nuts, but I'd take his opinion over people on the internet. Even though I often don't find her laugh out loud funny, although I don't find much of anything laugh out loud funny right now. Most celebrities tend to have both big egos and be quite insecure so what is said here really doesn't mean much, but thats kind of true, define what 'credit' actually means. Its sort of like Frazier being a big hit, but you don't give credit to Ted Danson for it. I think she gets plenty of credit without it.

Thank you

Thx

She sounds like Whoopi Goldberg.

Yeah and actually funny but British humour is wasted on Americans

+crimson gate32 She's brilliant.

Underrated? So she's actually funny then?

Drivel! She's acknowledged and respected on both sides of the Atlantic.

Yes, she does take credit. She hated The Simpsons and wanted them off her show but when they became popular and big hit. She wanted credit for it, so yeah, she does take credit credit that she doesn’t deserve because she didn’t create the Simpsons Matt Groaning did.

Yes. She did.

She guest starred on ONE episode of The Simpsons. That is it.

It s 1 hour 20. No way am I watching all that. What time in particular?

'Me' >> Don't be lazy.

its somewhere in the first 20minutes

Dont be lazy? Who has an hour and 20 minutes to kill? Ill skip through until 20 minutes but then im giving up.

Just checked it. Go to 5:40.

Edward Medina *awful

+Nicolas Vincent oh gee man...Tracey rules loved her ever since that show- even was taping it...who knows if the simpsons ever took off without her????

+Nicolas Vincent - She didn't hate the Simpsons at all - she loved them. Where do you get this info? Don't believe everything you read.

+dippylala there's an hour long interview on RU-vid between Conan O'Brian and a few of the original Simpsons writers in which they also make this claim. They state that she hated the Simpsons and was constantly trying to get it pulled off her show, only to change her tune years later when it became immensely popular. I can't remember at what point it is in the video, but it's well worth watching the whole thing anyway

+dippylala Watch the commentary tracks. I was paraphrasing the creator's of the show. Ullman hated & wanted nothing to do with the Simpson's. She didn't even want it on her show, that's why she didn't bother with any of the voices. Had she, she's have had a career in North America since The Simpson's spun off. Instead, she blames, and maybe with good reason, The Simpson's success on her dwindled career. Who wouldn't be bitter?

+Nicolas Vincent she gets royalty fees from the Simpsons

Because you say someting doesn't make it a fact, but since about thirty seconds was on the subject lots of 'fact' got left out. She tried to sue, and technically her show DID 'nurture' it. Any money that can be wrangled away from Murdock has my blessing. But I've never seen any evidence she hated, it, although it WAS pretty crappy while on her show. It looked like they were drawn by ten year olds and the humour was pretty idiotic.

@@mikearchibald744 she tried constantly to get it pulled. Thats about as nurturing as a wire hanger on prom night. 🤣😂 But whatevs.

@@rachelarriaga2264 Well, thats whats called 'hearsay'.

@@mikearchibald744 Not just fox..... her lawsuit would have been taking food from. The creators mouths as well....thats like thr creators said she was a terror, that she didn't want thr show until it started gaining popularity ....im more inclined to side with thr creators of the show and the people who wanted to see it succeed. Not the witch that only seemed to care about it 3 and a half seasons into its independence before a lawsuit was even sparked. Not really interested in the vocabulary lesson of words I already know exist. That comes across as something called "pretension" Enjoy your day 😁

@@rachelarriaga2264 LOL, It certainly would not have taken food from the creators, and as Sam Simon, one of THE creators said, they all got fabulously wealthy from a cartoon, so thats just ludicrous. It would have taken SOME money from the Murdocks, which I'm fine with. And I tend to listen to THE creator of The Simpsons, Sam Simon, who talked about Ullman as one of televisions greats, which by now she has certainly proven herself to be. Its doubtful she ever really cared for it, lots of women in particular don't care for it, and of course nowadays hardly anybody does. The lawsuit was more than a decade after the show had been on, so its pretty likely that the money it was earning had lawyers working for just a percentage to say "well, why NOT give a lawsuit a try?" A mark of her professionalism is that unlike most people, she DOESN"T badmouth the show, in fact for about two decades its been more of an embarassment that if anything she'd avoid being associated with. Meanwhile, every show she does gets critical acclaim and she's performed with the best talents in the industry. " In 1991, Ullman filed a lawsuit against 20th Century Fox alleging four counts of breach of contract. According to the , the 14-page complaint alleged that Ullman’s contract with Gracie Films (Brooks’s production company) entitled her to “five to 10 percent of the net receipts of the merchandising and other profits from products or programs based on spinoff characters, including animated characters, even if those characters were originated by others.” And since began on , she argued that she should be entitled to those profits."

+Jason Mooney She was against the simpsons from the start.

+lochyes why?

+Vamanos Ninja Because it was more popular than the other segments of the show

BimodalMetal6 That would be painful.

She doesnt have to work again.. They HAVE TO pay he a percent now cos if not for her show Simpsons may never have got famous

Whoooooo

Agreed. What a star!

The thing is they’re both from northern Ireland and they could be related distantly.

@@chiconva very true!

She doesn't say she was the original Marge, she imitates Kavner doing Marge but, seeing how Kavner now brings down $400,000 per episode, I'll bet she wishes she WAS Marge!