Caroline Aherne RIP

this.fucking.year.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36694598?post_id=100007815545246_1753742078229627#_=_

:-(

her and victoria wood in the space of a few months :(

Main news item on BBC One news just now

old EP of Mrs Merton now

The Coogan - Merton interview was really moving, you could see a genuine warmth between the two of them at the end.

:(

very sad. she was always effortlessly cool & charismatic

had v confused feelings watching mrs merton as a youth

:-(
Never actually saw any of Mrs Merton at the time. But her Fast Show stuff was one of the highlights and Royle Family is obv genius

Mrs Merton was great too. I was looking to post some of her best bits of her career but there is just so many but this catchphrase will be used forever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZMUAd7OJc8

"What did I say, Roy?"

they're all poofs and lezzies
i could shit through the eye of a needle

... off the top of my head

he sees everything... visually

nimbo... cumulus?

don't usually care about celebrity deaths but this one has got to me. huge fan of everything she did and always hoped she'd revive mrs merton one day.

anyone know this is from? 'caroline hook' so from the peter hook years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWwmbkhaN2g

and can't leave this thread without mentioning the weirdest thing she did, mrs merton and malcolm. this chas & dave bit makes me piss and i don't know why:

https://youtu.be/ernqEeRFyQA?t=212

Mrs Merton and Malcolm was wonderful, and seems to be oddly overlooked. it seems like it didn't get a very positive critical reception?

However, the show attracted some criticism for referring to the character of Malcolm Merton as ‘backward’: somewhat bizarrely, the show received complaints from the mental health charity Mencap (see Viner, 1999: en), which is odd considering the longstanding tradition of repressed and childish characters in British situation comedies. The show also proved controversial for its implication that Mrs Merton was repressing her son’s adulthood: an article in The Independent stated that Aherne and Cash ‘conspire in a deadpan realism that makes this idyll of repressed adulthood seem unbearable. As a gas ad, this was amusing; stretched to 30 minutes, it's a Freudian tragedy’ (Hanks, 1999: en). Likewise, The Guardian referred to the show as ‘like a fifties commercial for Mothers [sic] Pride but there is a peculiar undertow of unease’ (Banks-Smith, 1999: en).

That stand up NI posted is hysterical.

The show also proved controversial for its implication that Mrs Merton was repressing her son’s adulthood: an article in The Independent stated that Aherne and Cash ‘conspire in a deadpan realism that makes this idyll of repressed adulthood seem unbearable

I don't remember the show at all but this makes it sound like Steptoe & Son.

... crossed with Sorry!

Steptoe & Mum

i vaguely remember it, I doubt it was a good idea