Victoria's Empire is a three-part British travel series by a Comedian and actress whose humour was grounded in everyday life and included references to quintessentially what activities?
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Victoria's Empire Victoria's Empire is a three-part British travel series that was first broadcast on BBC One in 2007. It was written and presented by comedian and actress Victoria Wood. Wood travelled around the world in search of the history, cultural impact and customs which the British Empire placed on the parts of the world it ruled. The documentary was called "Victoria's Empire" after the presenter, as Wood herself is named after the ruler of the British Empire, Queen Victoria. Wood specifically looked at places named after the monarch.
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Victoria Wood Victoria Wood (19 May 1953 – 20 April 2016) was an English comedian, actress, singer and songwriter, screenwriter and director. Wood wrote and starred in sketches, plays, musicals, films and sitcoms, and her live comedy act was interspersed with her own compositions, which she performed on piano. Much of her humour was grounded in everyday life and included references to quintessentially "British" activities, attitudes and products. She was noted for her skills in observing culture and in satirising social classes.
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Claire Porter Claire Porter (born December 23, 1942) is an American choreographer/comedian known for blending comedic monologues with dance movement. She is also an award-winning performer, author, and dance educator whose dance works, which she refers to as "Portables," have been produced by various dance organizations, college theater programs and venues around the world.
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Advanced Banter Advanced Banter: The QI Book of Quotations, known as If Ignorance Is Bliss, Why Aren't There More Happy People? in the United States, is the third title in a series of books based on the intellectual British panel game "QI", written by series-creator John Lloyd and head-researcher John Mitchinson. It is a book of "quite interesting" quotations.
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Joan Rivers Joan Alexandra Molinsky (June 8, 1933 – September 4, 2014), widely known as Joan Rivers, was an American comedian, actress, writer, producer, and television host. She was noted for her often controversial comedic persona—alternatingly self-deprecating or sharply acerbic, especially toward celebrities and politicians.
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Emma Fryer Emma Fryer is a British stand-up comedian, actress and writer from Coventry, best known for playing Tania in BBC Three's "Ideal", Janine in E4's "PhoneShop" and Gaynor in BBC Two's "Home Time", which she co-wrote with Neil Edmond.
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Danielle Schneider Danielle Caroline Schneider (born January 1, 1975) is an American actress, writer, and improvisational comedian from the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. She co-created and starred in the Hulu reality TV parody series "The Hotwives" and currently co-hosts (alongside Casey Wilson) the Earwolf podcast "Bitch Sesh".
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Brian Regan (comedian) Brian Joseph Regan ( ) (born June, 2, 1958) is an American stand-up comedian who uses observational, sarcastic, and self-deprecating humor. His performances are clean as he refrains from profanity and off-color humor. Regan's material typically covers everyday events, such as shipping a package with UPS and a visit to an optometrist. Regan makes frequent references to childhood, including little league baseball, grade school spelling bees, and science projects. Body language and facial expressions make his stand-up act atypically physical. His clean, off-center humor has been praised by critics and contemporaries alike and Regan enjoys a fan base that crosses age groups.
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Carry On Laughing Carry On Laughing is a British television comedy series produced in 1975 for ATV. Based on the "Carry On" films, it was an attempt to address the films' declining cinema attendance by transferring the franchise to television. Many of the original cast members were featured in the series.
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List of Miranda episodes "Miranda" is a BBC television series co-written by and starring comedian Miranda Hart. It first aired on BBC Two on 9 November 2009 and has since moved to BBC One. The situation comedy also features Sarah Hadland, Tom Ellis, Patricia Hodge and Sally Phillips. The series is based on Hart's semi-autobiographical writing and followed a television pilot and the BBC Radio 2 comedy "Miranda Hart's Joke Shop". This was a very popular TV show watched by millions.
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The Catherine Tate Show The Catherine Tate Show is a British television sketch comedy written by Catherine Tate and Aschlin Ditta. Tate also stars in all but one of the show's sketches, which feature a wide range of characters. "The Catherine Tate Show" airs on BBC Two and is shown worldwide through the BBC. Collectively, the show has been nominated for six BAFTA Awards, two British Comedy Awards and an Emmy Award, and it has won two Royal Television Society Awards, two British Comedy Awards and a National Television Award since its debut in 2004.
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Carol Cleveland Carol Cleveland (born 13 January 1942) is a British actress and comedian, most notable for her work with Monty Python.
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Argentine humour Argentine humour is exemplified by a number of humorous television programmes, film productions, comic strips and other types of media. Everyday humour includes jokes related to recurrent themes, such as xenophobic jokes at the expense of Galicians (Spaniards) called "chistes de gallegos" (where they are commonly portrayed as simpletons), often obscene sex-related jokes ("chistes verdes", literally "green jokes", a term equivalent to the English-language "blue humour"), jokes about the English, the Americans, blonde women (supposedly clueless, according to a misoginist point of view), dark humour (called "humor negro"), word and pronunciation games, jokes about Argentines themselves, etc.
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Deborah Frances-White Deborah Frances-White is a comedian and writer who also delivers seminars to women in business on subjects including charisma, diversity and inclusion. She has both British and Australian citizenship. She hosts the podcasts "Global Pillage" and "The Guilty Feminist".
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Edina Monsoon Edina Monsoon is the main character in the BBC programme "Absolutely Fabulous", played by Jennifer Saunders, who is also the creator of the show. The character is known for her extravagance and various attempts to follow new crazes and trends.
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Hipster sexism Hipster sexism, also known as ironic sexism, is defined by Alissa Quart in "New York" magazine as "the objectification of women but in a manner that uses mockery, quotation marks, and paradox". Hipster sexism involves the use of irony in a satirical manner to subjugate women. It is a form of self-aware sexism that is deemed acceptable given that perpetrators are conscious of the inherent sexism and objectification of women in whatever action or statement is being carried out by them. It is rooted in the idea that sexism is an outdated and archaic institution which people do not engage in anymore, thereby making the demonstration of sexism seem satirical and ironic.
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Jo Caulfield Josephine Caulfield (born 26 September 1965) is a British actress, writer and comedian.
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Su Pollard Susan Georgina "Su" Pollard (born 7 November 1949 in Nottingham) is an English comedy actress and singer, most famous for her roles in the sitcoms "Hi-de-Hi!", "You Rang, M'Lord?" and "Oh, Doctor Beeching!". As a singer, she scored a UK No.2 hit with the song "Starting Together" in 1986. She is also well known for her unusual and flamboyant dress sense and her broad Nottinghamshire accent.
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Esma Cannon Esma Ellen Charlotte Littman (née Cannon) (27 December 1905 – 18 October 1972), credited as Esme or Esma Cannon, was a diminutive (4 ft ) Australian-born character actress and comedian, who moved to Britain in the early 1930s. Although better known in her latter years for her television roles, she was best known as a film actress, with a lengthy career in early British productions, from the 1930s to the 1950s.
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Housewife, 49 Housewife, 49 is a 2006 television film based on the wartime diaries of Nella Last. Written by and starring English actress and comedian Victoria Wood, it follows the experiences of an ordinary housewife and mother in the Northern English town of Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire during the Second World War. It was first broadcast in the UK by ITV on 10 December 2006.
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Neg Dupree Andrew "Neg" Dupree ( ; born London, England) is a British comedian, writer and actor, best known for his act "Neg's Urban Sports" on the British television show "Balls of Steel". Dupree has also appeared on shows such as "Footballers' Wives", "EastEnders", and "The Bill".
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Erin Ashley Darling Erin Darling is an American television personality, actress, and comedian who has appeared on IFC, AMC, FUEL TV, and Adult Swim on Cartoon Network. She is a self-proclaimed "professional nerd" with a strong fanbase in the Comic Con and genre film communities.