French and Saunders (1987)

Original title

French & Saunders

Genre

comedy television series

Country

United Kingdom

Length

6 seasons, 39 episodes

Rated

15

Rating

7.4 of 10 from 39 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders perform sketch comedy together. They create detailed spoofs of movies, celebrities, and popular culture.

comedicplayfulsatiricalcampylivelytongue-in-cheeknostalgicirreverent

What happens

French and Saunders is a British sketch comedy television series written by and starring comedy duo and namesake Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders that originally broadcast on BBC2 from 1987 to 1993, and later on BBC One until 2017. It is also the name by which the performers are known when they appear elsewhere as a double act. The show was given one of the highest budgets in BBC history to create detailed spoofs and satires of popular culture, movies, celebrities, and art. French and Saunders continued to film holiday specials for the BBC, and both have been individually successful starring in other shows. In a 2005 poll to find The Comedian's Comedian, the duo were voted among the top 50 comedy acts ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders. Their last special, French and Saunders Christmas Celebrity Special, aired on 27 December 2005 on BBC One. In 2006, both French and Saunders announced their sketch show was dead and that they had moved on to more age-appropriate material. Their last time performing as a duo, the Still Alive tour, ran initially until late 2008, then resumed in Australia in summer 2009. In 2009, the duo were jointly awarded the BAFTA Fellowship, due to their significant international influence on satire and sketch comedy. Since 2009, French and Saunders decided to occasionally do more satire usually for comic relief including Mamma Mia, Gogglebox and The Traitors. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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