Nine jokes: Victoria Wood’s most popular one-liners

‘Jogging is for people who aren’t intelligent enough to watch television’

Victoria Wood  signals the start of The SunWalk in London, a charity walk to raise money and awareness of breast cancer, in 2014. The comic  has died aged 62 after a short battle with cancer. File photograph: John Stillwell/PA Wire
Victoria Wood signals the start of The SunWalk in London, a charity walk to raise money and awareness of breast cancer, in 2014. The comic has died aged 62 after a short battle with cancer. File photograph: John Stillwell/PA Wire

Victoria Wood has died at the age of 62 after battling cancer.

Here are some of the British comedian’s most popular one-liners:

* I thought Coq au Vin was love in a lorry.

* My children won’t even eat chips because some know-all bastard at school told them a potato was a vegetable.

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* In my day we didn’t have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.

* I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped but I've been driving that Peugeot for years.

* My boyfriend had a sex manual but he was dyslexic. I was lying there and he was looking for my vinegar.

* Jogging is for people who aren’t intelligent enough to watch television.

* Life’s not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.

* Sexual harassment at work - is it a problem for the self-employed?

* People think I hate sex. I don’t. I just don’t like things that stop you seeing the television properly.

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