Tag Archives: French and Saunders

Dawn French: “I Refuse To Dislike My Old Body”

Dawn French’s astonishing weight-loss (100 pounds and counting)  has been one of the more remarkable things to happen this decade, and it has resulted in quite a bit of newspaper moralising. Not that anyone is criticising one of ...

A Very British Christmas Part 10: Five Great TV Specials

If there were no Christmas, there would still be a need for everyone to mark a point in the year in order to let their hair down and lark about. Birthdays are fine, but too specific to one person.

Five Great British Comedy Double Acts

Comedy suits company. For all that Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton were solo geniuses at their craft when nobody could hear them talk, it was the magical relationship between Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy which superseded them once the ...

Dawn French: “I’m Going To Die Soon”

Comedienne Dawn French says she knows she’s going to die soon, despite having no (physical) ailment to speak of. She has even bought a house in Cornwall to be her final resting place.