Caroline Aherne

[MCFC Wirral]

This extended Guardian article on her is first-rate:

‘She was sharp as a tack but daft as a brush’: friends and colleagues remember the genius of the Royle Family’s Caroline Aherne

Shy, intelligent, prone to a drink and generous to a fault. The people closest to the star remember a comedy legend hounded by the press and racked by depression

www.theguardian.com

Brilliant read.

 

[The Lightbowne Cowboy]

A lovely kind hearted lady who, the more successful she become, the unhappier she became. Very sad end to a brilliant comic mind.

 

[Betterdeedthan red]

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Nice piece about her on the BBC website today with some unseen pictures.

Lovelly funny woman.

 

[BlueHammer85]

 

[supercity88]

Found all this FAF

It's fantastic. So naturally funny.

 

[Marklr]

She seemed really nice. And funny.
If I remember rightly, the Mrs Merton character was originally a Frank Sidebottom extra on his Piccadilly Radio show he had mid 80s. It was played by a different woman though. Caroline stood in for her one day and the rest is...
I could be totally wrong though.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

She seemed really nice. And funny.
If I remember rightly, the Mrs Merton character was originally a Frank Sidebottom extra on his Piccadilly Radio show he had mid 80s. It was played by a different woman though. Caroline stood in for her one day and the rest is...
I could be totally wrong though.

I think you are correct about where it originated but it was always her character and voice.

 

[mancityvstoke]

Did you ever see the series "Dossa and Joe" Bill ?
Set in Sydney and filmed around 2002.
It seems to have been forgotten about compared to her other stuff, but some good laughs in it when you understood the characters fully.
I first saw Caroline at a Comedy Club in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester called "The Buzz". It must have been 1989'ish. She was playing a character called 'Mitzi Goldberg' who was a Jewish Country & Western singer in a band. It was original and funny but she didn't seem to develop this personage to any great extent ?
'Sister Mary Immaculate', (an Irish Nun), was her breakthrough and hilarious.
I hope new people continue to discover her, a one-off and brilliant with it.

Loved that pub ...another sad loss...... The Southern

 

[roman totale]

I think you are correct about where it originated but it was always her character and voice.

This is my recollection too - it was always her. However, something in the back of my mind tells me the character initially had a different name? It’s been a long time though and my Frank Sidebottom tapes have long since been lost, or disintegrated, so I could be wrong.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

This is my recollection too - it was always her. However, something in the back of my mind tells me the character initially had a different name? It’s been a long time though and my Frank Sidebottom tapes have long since been lost, or disintegrated, so I could be wrong.

Think it was the same name different spelling. Originally Mrs Murton.

This is an unaired pilot.