 In 2003, she was listed in "The Observer" as one of the "50 Funniest Acts in British Comedy".In the 2005 Channel 4 poll the "Comedians' Comedian", she was voted 27th out of the top 50 comedy acts by fellow comedians and comedy insiders.She was the highest-ranked woman on the list, above French and Saunders (who paid tribute to her in their "Lord of the Rings" spoof, where a map of Middle-Earth shows a forest called 'Victoria Wood'), Joan Rivers and Joyce Grenfell.