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FRENCH & SAUNDERS - STILL ALIVE 2008
Tuesday 18 March and Wednesday 19 March
Clyde Auditorium
8pm
£29.50/£24.50
Box Office: 0870 040 4000
Britain's most celebrated female comic double act of all time
French & Saunders make their long-overdue debut at the Magners
Glasgow International Comedy Festival.
Part of their first major UK tour in over seven years, Dawn French
and Jennifer Saunders promise a live, uproarious celebration of
their three decades of making people laugh.
After six eponymous BBC1 sketch shows and a host of festive specials
that were as much a part of Christmas as overcooked sprouts and lost
Trivial Pursuit pieces, the girls are hitting the road.
Jennifer says, ‘We’re so excited about going on tour and giving the
audience a great night out packed full of laughs. We’ll blend the best
of our old material with the new and cram it all into a couple of hours
of great fun. It’s going back to basics for us and it’s what we do
best.’
Dawn adds ‘Can't wait. Bring it on! There's nothing like a live
audience to change the colour of your pants!’.
When not working in partnership, the first ladies of comedy have
concentrated on minor side-projects you might have heard of such as
Absolutely Fabulous and The Vicar of Dibley. Don’t miss this
rare chance to see two genuine, certified comedy icons in the flesh as
they present the cream of their classic characters, film spoofs and
sketches, together with brand new material written for the stage.
Lively, fast, upbeat, celebratory and fun -
French & Saunders are back with their best.
Jennifer Saunders met Dawn French at the Central School of
Speech and Drama. Jennifer was the one who replied to an advert for
comediennes at The Comic Strip and brought Dawn along with her.
Together with fellow alternative comedy pioneers Rik Mayall,
Alexi Sayle and Adrian Edmondson, their Comic Strip
Presents…was a landmark moment in 80s TV and heralded the new
generation of anti-establishment upstarts.
As a double act, in 1987 French & Saunders moved from the
stage to TV sketch shows, rapidly becoming Britain's best loved female
comedy duo.
Jennifer’s first solo project Absolutely Fabulous was first
broadcast in 1992 and became one of the most influential sitcoms of the
decade. An absolute phenomenon, Ab Fab ran for 13 years with
Edina and Patsy inspiring a whole generation of drag queens and
glamorous drunks. Jennifer built on her new global stardom with guest
appearances on Roseanne, as one of Ross’s (many) mother-in-laws
in Friends and as the evil Fairy Godmother in Shrek 2.
Most recently, Jennifer wrote and starred in BBC sitcoms The Life and
Times Of Vivian Vyle and Jam and Jerusalem.
Dawn’s solo work has seen her star in the BBC’s very British mystery
spoof Murder Most Horrid and as the Rev Geraldine Granger in
Richard Curtis’s abiding sitcom The Vicar of Dibley, which
reached its grand finale in 2007, also after 13 years. A continuing
influence for the new generation of TV comedians, Dawn recently appeared
as Vicky Pollard’s mum in Little Britain and also stretched her
acting muscles in London’s West End alongside Alison Moyet in
acclaimed play Smaller.
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