Caroline Aherne

she patronised the elderly on her show whilst pretending to be old and yet now will never know what it is like to be old, bless her poor love. RIP.
 
A family friend of mine. My Mam was gutted over the weekend when we found out.
 
Of all the celebrities we have lost this year, after David Bowie this is the one I will most miss. The Royle Family was just utter genius. It's like one of those recipes where the ingredients are really simple and straightforward but they combine to make something that is absolute perfection.
 
Was at Noel's gig in Nashville over the weekend where he dedicated Half The World Away to her. Very touching. A great song with a bit more meaning on the night.
 
penguins4kompany said:
she patronised the elderly on her show whilst pretending to be old and yet now will never know what it is like to be old, bless her poor love. RIP.
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I knew one of her audience from delivering papers to her on Ellesmere Park. She certainly didn't feel patronised, she said it was a scream being there.

Why do people race to say negative things on these threads?

The helmet is a regular for this. It's one of two tricks he's got. The other is the long winded "Jesus has upped and done one" shite that he's posted during the last three or four Easters word for word. How sad to save a post for that amount of time?

RIP to a comedy legend.
 
Watched some royle family today still just as funny after all these years.
My lad made me smile with his its just like goggle box observation.
 
Watched her years ago at the old Frog as Sister Mary Immaculate (which became Mrs. Merton). Supremely talented despite an almost pathological shyness, coupled with an Irish working class Catholic inferiority complex. There is an interview on Sky where she talks with Craig (Cash) about how The Royle Family was written. She's almost embarrassed about how lauded it has become. For fans of pathos / dark and light the scenes where Denise goes into labour in the bathroom with her dad,but more especially the scene where Nana dies, are up there with the best British comedy scenes ever written.
 
oldhamblue said:
Watched her years ago at the old Frog as Sister Mary Immaculate (which became Mrs. Merton). Supremely talented despite an almost pathological shyness, coupled with an Irish working class Catholic inferiority complex. There is an interview on Sky where she talks with Craig (Cash) about how The Royle Family was written. She's almost embarrassed about how lauded it has become. For fans of pathos / dark and light the scenes where Denise goes into labour in the bathroom with her dad,but more especially the scene where Nana dies, are up there with the best British comedy scenes ever written.
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"Are you sure it wasn't just a really big piss?"
 
Bill Walker said:
Incredibly funny woman, whether it be The fast Show (Scorchio) The Royle Family or Mrs Merton I thought she was hilarious.
Very sad loss to the world of comedy.

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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.
 
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ZenHalfTimeCrock said:
This extended Guardian article on her is first-rate:

www.theguardian.com

‘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 www.theguardian.com
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Fantastic .
Craig was in the Tunnel Club v Looneypool but I couldn’t summon up the courage to talk to him.
Outstanding talent
 
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