Victoria Wood - Comedy Genius - Her Life and Work

by Chris Wood

Victoria’s story told in depth by her brother Chris
A fascinating account: new material includes extracts from her
father’s daily journal, family stories and original cartoons by ‘Rog’

The book describes how an overweight, lonely and unhappy girl overcame early
difficulties to build a hugely successful career, cut short by
her early death at 62. How Victoria Wood became a true
‘National Treasure’ with her own unique brand of humour.

‘Britain’s funniest woman’ - hugely popular stand-up
comedian who paved the way for other women comics;
multi- BAFTA award-winner; singer-songwriter, playwright,
actor, producer, director and inspired scriptwriter who gave
many of her best lines to her fellow actors. Stories behind

‘Wood and Walters’
‘Victoria Wood As Seen On TV’
‘Acorn Antiques’ ‘dinnerladies’
‘Pat and Margaret’ ‘Housewife, 49’ ‘Eric and Ernie’
‘That Day We Sang’ ‘An Audience With…’
‘The Ballad of Barry and Freda (Let’s Do It!)’

251 pages, Paperback

First published November 24, 2016

Reviews

[Paul Martin · Rating 1 out of 5]

Entire chunks repeated pages after they first appear. Titles of her well-known sketches entirely mis-named (more than once!). Many quotes mis-quoted. Relies massively on huge chunks of newspaper reports and interviews, and then repeats almost verbatim that same data. No sense of what is a quote and what isn’t, what the things in bold and italics are meant to refer to and, most unforgivably, the writer is clearly more interested in publicising himself. LAUGHABLY BAD. As Vic would say, it looks like someone has brushed past a word processor with a big bottom and accidentally written a biography. Please, NEVER publish again Mr. Foote-Wood, no charity is worth it. A tragic ‘tribute’ from an embittered man.