Series

French & Saunders 1987

Created by Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French

  • Comedy
  • 30 min episodes
  • 6 seasons
  • 39 episodes
  • Ended

French and Saunders is a British sketch comedy television series written by and starring comic duo Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. It is also the name by which the performers are known on the occasions when they appear elsewhere as a double act.

Comedyparodysketch comedydouble actBBC One, BBC Two

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Comic, spare, warm and cool.

  • gravecomic
  • sparerichly built
  • warmbleak
  • cooloverwhelming
  • classical in formformally daring

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