British Comedy Classics

French and Saunders characters, Jill and Jo retire to America, much better than Bideford.  They can’t believe the size of everything in the US and it’s not just the people.

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French & Saunders - The Exorcist
Here’s another one of the French & Saunders show classic film parodies.  This time Dawn French plays Regan while Jennifer Saunders plays the mother.

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French & Saunders - Madonna Parody, The French & Saunders Show, BBC
Dawn French & Jennifer Saunders started out in the early 1980’s as part of the so called ‘alternative comedy’ movement along with Ben Elton, Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson (who Jennifer Saunders went onto marry) and shows like The Young Ones and the British version [...]

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This is Dawn French at her best, doing a parody of singer a Bjork’s excellent Big Time Sensuality.
French & Saunders - Bjork

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French & Saunders came from the comic strip group, and for a long while were the funniest comediennes around. The later stuff is nowhere near so good.
Here they are doing what they were best at, taking the mickey out of that lovely Irish boy band.
French & Saunders - Boyzone

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