Victoria Wood - Keep On Shopping (As Seen On TV)

[differentcorners]

love the maid classic

[utubefanno1]

Can someone please put the lyrics up I know most of it but anyway it would most apprecieated

[popazz1]

Hope Jackman & Meg Johnson,sadly,were two of the most under-rated vocalists of the 20th century,so it was great to hear their superb talents here.Seeing Meg as Pearl seems weird when you consider all she did before this.Not that I'm knocking Emmerdale,I love,it,& maybe Meg is more than happy with her role.She is knocking on a bit after all! But,as always,there isn't anything VW can't turn her hand to,& she always picks the most appropriate cast members for whatever she does.

[firestartertwistedfi]

what have we got like this now? armstrong and miller, mitchell and webb - dross compared to this, no?

[TheStMartine]

This is actually amazingly entertaining!

[albaalbaalbaalba169]

Who is the lady playing the waitress pushing the tea trolley who joins in at the end?

[CandyHaleLinton]

Hope Jackman played Matron "Mama" Morton in the original eighties London production of Chicago at the Cambridge Theatre. I can never forget her entrance, slinking on stage singing "When you're good to Mama" in a dress split WAY up high.

What a voice, she could knock you back in your seat, and what a magnetic presence. I heard her several times and she was a total show stopper. The audience would be on their feet baying for more, and sometimes Ms Jackman would oblige, the saucy minx she was.

[MickeyLove01]

That's Judith with the thick hairy bushy minge from The Life of Brian singing with the reddosh coloured blouse on....

[tadge72]

remember before cafes and starbucks there were lots of tearooms like this full of women in macs!

[loveikeaful]

@tadge72 This made me giggle!

Yes, yes I do.

[pashleylouise]

This cracks me up.... Classic!!

[neilbombd]

Amazing.  Just saw this for the first time, and it's already taken up residence in my head for goodness knows how long. AMAZING vocal performances in this, brilliant song...just WOW.

[filthybaggage]

I love this sketch - there's something of Barbara Pym in it

[katerush]

marvelous!! a glimpse of women who do lunch.

[ChrisWales24]

Just brilliant!

[Knappa22]

Sue Jones Davies, How aweome to see her!! She's the Mayor of Aberystwyth now (seriously!)

[enesso99]

Oh my!

I've always loved this number. Sublime!

[coracleman]

Love sue jones davies! Just sublime!

coraclewoman

[Sonsal4eva]

Lol i cant beleive pearl is in it lol i was so shocked when i saw her!!!!!!!

Lol love this!!!!!!

[SharonOsbourneFan07]

lmao i just love watching this

[freddietash]

"It's all communal..like a nude tribunal!!" Absolute classic!!

[lwest20]

she is in the victoria wood song sketch " at the chippy" as well

[lwest20]

the lady in the pink.isnt she pearl out of emmerdale

[NickLotay]

Spot on - Meg Johnson plays Pearl, as it says in the "About This Video" section (top left). Never knew she sang, to be honest...!

[Adamwrestle75]

@lwest20 Yes she is, she was also in Brookside and Coronation Street (twice)

[Lynseyattwood]

!AAAAllllllll Daaaaaaaaayyyy Loooonnnnnngggg!! LOL

[EnglishPsycho]

Shear class - wont get anything like this in sketch shows nowadays. Classic!

[maxinebendix]

Meg Johnson was also 'Eunice Nuttall' in Coronation Street; she was to be married to Fred Gee.

[tishhope]

She is also on the London cast recording CD for Chicago, as Mama Morton!!!

[ThePiano1991]

I love this, I was not born when this was out, but even I can enjoy it 20 years later.

I love Meg Johnson, what an amazing actress and singer! I can't find any information on Hope Jackman, I know she is dead, but other than that, I know nothing.

I can't believe Victoria Wood even writes the songs, she is a genuine genius! I love her to death! Amazing sketch, but my favourite is the sea side one, Marie, Clarie and Min.

[starlitegaize]

thank you for posting this, just one of the BEST Victoria Wood songs ever...!! Still so fresh after 25 years! I come back and view this regularly... Hope Jackman - brilliant, a sad loss to the industry...

[financehipflask]

has she died? can't seem to find any info on her when i google her name.

[financehipflask]

i wonder why julie wasn't in this

[christentze]

oh. my. goodness.  this is absolutely wonderful! i LOVE musical numbers and these people...OUAH! thank you so much!

[jamesalee68]

One of my favourite musical clips ever! Thank you

[popout45]

Love this !

[gummybrain]

Damn, Hope Jackman's got some pipes!

[DonkeyOkay]

I remember the fashion for having communal dressing rooms in stores back in the 80's. It was terrible as you tried to back into a corner to stop people staring at your big wobbly bottom. Not that you wanted to look at anyone else. It just wasn't British.

[sparkyevans1]

Quite amazing, and still fresh after - what- twenty years?  Meg Johnson was indeed a powerful Mama Morton in Chicago at the Adelphi, but in fact in the Original London production at the Cambridge in the late 1970s, Hope Jackman played Mama. Great to see them both together working Wood's brilliant lyrics ... and also Celia Imrie and Susie Blake as minor background characters.

[GoldenView88]

so uplifting and funny!

[christentze]

hahaha! "You can't get uplift bras is turquoise blue!"

[Skezbow]

I love this so!

[peetah1979]

Thanks - she's great.

[tammy675]

wen i go on holiday i c the woman in the red shirt in the street

aberistwth i think its spelt lol

xxtammyxx

[NickLotay]

That is Sue Jones-Davies.. she currently lives there, in Aberystywth. I'm not really sure what she's up to now though, TV-wise!

[peetah1979]

Who's the woman in the purple does anyone know who sings at the beginning and end?

[NickLotay]

That is Hope Jackman, a legend of British theatre. Sadly no longer with us though.

[tammy675]

the woman in the red shirt i c her all the tyme wen i go abarystwth

xxtammyxx

[563630]

Meg Johnson (beige pedestal mat), Emmerdale, Corrie, Brookie but also Mamma Morton in Chicago - what a fantastic voice

[chrish262]

I love this sketch it always makes me feel good and realy WOO HELL YEH!!!

[abmoore1]

looks like fawlty towers

[taskview]

You star NickLotay for providing the definitive version but much respect to kivakane for reminding me of this gem in the first place.

[Lyco499499]

ditto.

[gst12121978]

Fanbloodytastic from gaz and fizzbombaloona

[kivakane]

oh you little beauty, Love it so so much

Thankyou xXx