French & Saunders is a British sketch comedy television show written by and staring BAFTA Award-nominee Dawn French and Emmy and BAFTA Award-winner Jennifer Saunders. It is also the name by which the performers are known on the occasions when they appear elsewhere as a double act.

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  • French & Saunders is a British sketch comedy television show written by and staring BAFTA Award-nominee Dawn French and Emmy and BAFTA Award-winner Jennifer Saunders. It is also the name by which the performers are known on the occasions when they appear elsewhere as a double act. Widely popular in the late 1980s and the early 1990s, the show was given one of the highest budgets in BBC history to create detailed spoofs and satires of pop culture, movies, celebrities and art. The duo continue to film holiday specials for the BBC, and both have been successful starring in their own shows. Saunders won an BAFTA, an Emmy Award and international acclaim for writing and playing the lead role of Edina Monsoon in Absolutely Fabulous, which led to roles in the American sitcoms Roseanne and Friends. She won an American People's Choice Award for voicing the evil Fairy Godmother in DreamWorks' animated Shrek 2, but more recently she has written and starred another two hit sitcoms, Jam and Jerusalem and The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle. Her other work includes being the face of Barclays Bank and BBC America, while French starred in The Vicar of Dibley and more recently, Jam and Jerusalem and Lark Rise to Candleford. The show features an unusual style of humour, where many otherwise normal parody sketches are permeated with an underlying theme (which somewhat breaks the fourth wall) of the jealousy that French has for Saunders, and the superiority complex of her. In a 2005 poll to find The Comedian's Comedian, they were voted amongst the top 50 comedy acts ever by fellow comedians and comedy insiders. The last special, 2005's French and Saunders Christmas Celebrity Special, aired on 27 December 2005 on BBC One. In 2006, Saunders and French announced that the sketch style French & Saunders show was now dead, and that they had moved on to more age-appropriate material. Still Alive Tour is scheduled for 2008 as well as a six-part anniversary series, A Bucket O' French & Saunders, six episodes compiled of old sketches which started airing on 7 September 2007 on BBC One.[http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/04/arts/television/04roch.html?_r=2&ref=television&oref=slogin&oref=slogin] (en)
  • French & Saunders war eine britische Comedy-Sendung. Die Hauptprotagonisten sind Dawn French und Jennifer Saunders. Seine Premiere hatte die Sendung am 9. März 1987. Produziert wurde die Serie von BBC. Eine Folge hat eine Länge von ca. 30 Minuten. Weiterhin gibt es immer wieder verschiedene Sonderproduktionen. Die Serie wurde offiziell im Jahr 2005 mit einem Weihnachtsspecial beendet. (de)
  • French and Saunders est une série télévisée britannique créée par Dawn French et Jennifer Saunders et diffusée depuis le sur BBC Two. En France, la série a été diffusée sur Arte et sur Pink TV. (fr)
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  • French and Saunders (en)
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  • French & Saunders is a British sketch comedy television show written by and staring BAFTA Award-nominee Dawn French and Emmy and BAFTA Award-winner Jennifer Saunders. It is also the name by which the performers are known on the occasions when they appear elsewhere as a double act. (en)
  • French & Saunders war eine britische Comedy-Sendung. Die Hauptprotagonisten sind Dawn French und Jennifer Saunders. Seine Premiere hatte die Sendung am 9. März 1987. Produziert wurde die Serie von BBC. Eine Folge hat eine Länge von ca. 30 Minuten. Weiterhin gibt es immer wieder verschiedene Sonderproduktionen. Die Serie wurde offiziell im Jahr 2005 mit einem Weihnachtsspecial beendet. (de)
  • French and Saunders est une série télévisée britannique créée par Dawn French et Jennifer Saunders et diffusée depuis le sur BBC Two. En France, la série a été diffusée sur Arte et sur Pink TV. (fr)
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