Genius.

..... thanks for reminding me of this - just brilliant.

friend of mozza

from a seat on a whirling waltzer
her skirt ascends for a watching eye
it's a hideous trait (on her mother's side)

But I can't stand the above song. She did invent both Matt Lucas and K T Tunstall in the one go.

and this is my absolute favourite ever.

Can't find a video of her singing this live but please do listen to this. It's wonderful.

she is a genius and far wittier than the currently plodding Moz.

I don't really know why, but there's a very specific type of comedy that Greater Mancs - from the city itself or the swathe of post-industrial hellholes around its northern and eastern perimeter - have made their own. Instead of the theatre of the absurd, it's the absurdity of the mundane.

Here's an ad-lib by Victoria Wood (Bury) chatting with Clive James 20-odd years ago, talking about her time as a student: "At the end of the first year I was thirteen stone, going to bed at eight o'clock every night, eating Ready Brek and listening to The Organist Entertains."

You can find exactly the same revelling in the high weirdness of our most crass and quotidian actions and interactions in Hylda Baker (Bolton), Les Dawson (Manchester), John Stephenson (Oldham - not as well known as he should be, but he wrote most of Hilda and Stan Ogden's best lines during the golden age of Corrie), Mike Leigh (Salford), Peter Kay (Bolton) and Steve Coogan (Manchester).

Here's Pauline Calf (who, by all accounts, is gagging for it):

"Wears an orthopaedic shoe, looks like Patrick Swayze and works at John Menzies?" Can't you just hear that line being said by any one of those I've named above? And equally, wouldn't you a bit surprised to hear it from a non-Greater Manc (except, perhaps, Alan Bennett on a good day)?

Does anyone have an explanation for this? Or counter-examples to rebut it, if it's a load of tripe (or perhaps, in Woodworld, that should be "a quarter of honeycomb in soggy brown paper from UCP on Union Street")?

...I can't stand her. Dinnerladies anyone?

Simply wonderful.