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French & Saunders is a British sketch comedy television show starring and written by comedy team Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, and is also the name by which they are known on the rare occasions when they appear elsewhere as a double act.


Widely popular in the early 1990s (and now a cult classic), 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. French and Saunders continue to film holiday specials for the BBC, and are co-writers of the hit sitcom Absolutely Fabulous.


The show features a highly 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 Saunders.


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.


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French and Saunders - definition of French and Saunders in Encyclopedia (179 words)
French and Saunders is a British sketch comedy television show starring and written by comedy team Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, and is also the name by which they are known on the rare occasions when they appear elsewhere as a double act.
Widely popular in the early 1990s (and now a cult classic), 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.
French and Saunders continue to film holiday specials for the BBC, and are co-writers of the hit sitcom Absolutely Fabulous.
Dawn French (350 words)
Dawn French (born 1957) is a British comedienne probably best known as one half of the comic duo French & Saunders;.
French first came to public attention as a member of The Comic Strip -- part of the alternative comedy scene in the early 1980s.
After her success with French & Saunders, her first project was Murder Most Horrid a dark comedy satire of murder mysteries.
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