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	Dawn French
		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.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/d/da/dawn_french.html (350 words)

	French, Dawn
		French's television debut was an auspicious one, as a member of a group of "alternative" comedians known as the Comic Strip, on the opening night of the U.K.'s fourth TV channel, Channel Four, in 1982.
		Saunders was the rather grumpy, irritable half of the partnership, with French portraying a bouncy, enthusiastic, schoolgirlish character.
		French and Saunders currently have an exclusive contract with the BBC which gives them scope for expanding beyond the confines of their double act.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/F/htmlF/frenchdawn/frenchdawn.htm (1088 words)

	Saunders, Jennifer
		Saunders established her career as part of a double act with Dawn French on the live comedy circuit in the late 1970s.
		Saunders' and French's role within this group was particularly significant in that the two succeeded in providing much more complex and interesting female characters than had been hitherto been offered by television comedy.
		Saunders took on her first non-comedy role for a BBC drama, Heroes and Villains (1995), a period piece based on the true life of Lady Hester Stanhope, an eccentric 19th century traveller.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/S/htmlS/saundersjen/saundersjen.htm (768 words)

	French & Saunders & AbFab -- Har are yew?
		Saunders immediatly goes into procrastinating-college-student mode, pulling and twisting her hair, looking down at her cowboy boots, muttering all sorts of vauge excuses for not having finished her assignment.
		Saunders didn't meet any of the other members of the cast before doing her voiceover, which was recorded at a west London studio.
		Saunders has had a few problems with Eddie's customary appalling wardrobe: she says it's getting harder and harder to find the outrageous when it comes to fashion and fads for the show.
	www.freewebs.com /eddypiehands/articles.htm (4124 words)

	French & Saunders Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Saunders plays host Katherine Hepburn as so doddering and shaking that she can't quite make it to the podium, continuously shaking her way back behind the curtains until she receives help.
		Another highlight has Saunders masquerading as Liza Minnelli in an interview where the legendary star can't seem to remember her own name for any length of time, let alone that of her "momma" (and includes Saunders portraying Minnelli singing "Mein Herr" in a supposed clip from Cabaret).
		French & Saunders would, of course, not be to everyone's taste (just as was the case with Monty Python), but they are undeniably endowed with incredible creative powers, and despite some of their more outrageous stunts (i.e., the Hepburn-Rogers routine), they never seem mean-spirited.
	www.classicsondvd.com /frenchsaunders.htm (551 words)

	BBC - Comedy Guide - French And Saunders
		French and Saunders' distinctive style, which seemed to owe little to the heritage left by any male double-acts, came across to many as something new and fresh.
		French and Saunders presented themselves as shambolic, lazy souls devoid of new ideas, depicting the BBC as a faceless, ratings-obsessed monolith that regarded them as over-the-hill performers only holding appeal for older viewers.
		Dawn French was the subject of the LWT/ITV arts series The South Bank Show on 17 April 1994 and Jennifer Saunders appeared in an Omnibus arts programme, Jennifer Saunders At The Barre (BBC1, 13 December 1999), in which she explored the world of ballet, seeking a template for a new comic character.
	www.bbc.co.uk /comedy/guide/articles/f/frenchandsaunder_7772750.shtml (1000 words)

	Dawn French -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Dawn French (born October 11 1957) is a (The people of Great Britain) British (A female comedian) comedienne and actress best known as one half of the (Click link for more info and facts about comic duo) comic duo (Click link for more info and facts about French & Saunders) French & Saunders.
		French was born in (Click link for more info and facts about Holyhead) Holyhead, (One of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; during Roman times the region was known as Cambria) Wales.
		In 2001 she and Saunders declined an (Click link for more info and facts about Order of the British Empire) Order of the British Empire.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/da/dawn_french.htm (534 words)

	DVD : French & Saunders Collection 1
		French and Saunders are very funny, and for reasons I don't understand have not been imported sufficiently.
		French and Saunders mix very dry and quietly absurdist bits with shocking or silly outbursts that the Brits seem to excel at.
		French and Saunders, where Ab FAb came from, is the source of some of the funniest things I've ever seen.
	www.crickitalia.com /ItemId/B0000AOV3E (470 words)

	BBC News \| TV AND RADIO \| French and Saunders' best impressions
		Dawn French, born in north Wales in 1957, and Jennifer Saunders, born in Lincolnshire in 1958, met at the Central School of Speech and Drama in the late 1970s, while they were both training to be teachers.
		While Saunders' private life was stable - she moved to Devon with Edmondson and their three children in 2001 - French, already wary of the press, found her marriage in the tabloid spotlight in the late 1990s.
		French said she found the press attention was like she was being "bullied".
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/1935562.stm (759 words)

	French and Saunders Online - Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French
		In 1987 Dawn and Jennifer wrote their own TV show ''French and Saunders'' which was an immense success due to the double act's genius writing, brilliant acting performances and hilarious spoofs of world famous blockbusters and bands.
		There she met Dawn French whom she later teamed up with and created ‘French and Saunders’.
		She won a debating scholarship to study in New York after leaving school and then went on to train to be a drama teacher at London's Central School of Speech and Drama, where she met Jennifer Saunders.
	fsmonsoon.tripod.com /bios.html (403 words)

	DVD.net : The Best of French And Saunders - DVD Review
		Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French, after appearing in such groundbreaking British comedy series as The Comic Strip (featuring such blissful episodes as Five Go Mad in Dorset and The Famous Five on Mescalin), teamed officially as a duo in 1978 in the first series of 'French and Saunders'.
		While the two have parted from time to time for solo work (Jennifer Saunders to create 'Absolutely Fabulous' and Dawn French to star in 'The Vicar of Dibley'), they continue to reunite under the French and Saunders banner -- and in fact, a new series was filmed in England in July 2004.
		Saunders and French's scriptwriting is packed with nuances, as are their character impersonation and comic acting.
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=4525 (531 words)

	DVD.net : French & Saunders - Live - DVD Review
		French and Saunders have been friends since their days at the London Central School of Speech and Drama, and formed their comedy partnership very soon after.
		Jennifer Saunders is married to Adrian Edmondson (Vyvyan from The Young Ones), and Dawn French is married to Lenny Henry (fellow British comedian...
		I have a certain amount of respect for French and Saunders, as they can be very biting and very funny, but they are at their best when they take the ‘proverbial' out of that which needs it.
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=1532 (1033 words)

	Staff Review - French & Saunders - Live - Aussie Phorums
		French and Saunders Live features Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders performing on stage at the Bristol Hippodrome in 2000.
		French and Saunders Live has an aspect ratio of 1.78:1 widescreen and is 16:9 enhanced.
		French and Saunders Live is a good laugh and is pretty much what you'd expect from this pair of very funny and talented women.
	phorums.com.au /archive/index.php/t-2337.html (635 words)

	Boxoffice Magazine [French & Saunders: Back With a Vengeance] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The fifth and sixth "French & Saunders" DVD titles -- "On the Rocks" and "Back with a Vengeance" -- contain mostly, but not all, new material from the past few years.
		And what it proves is that Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French aren't just the funniest women in the world -- they're two of the funniest people in the world, period.
		The cultural icons targeted span the gamut, from American stars and movies to homegrown British fare, but the jabs are always spot-on.
	www.boxoff.com /scripts/dvd.asp?where=ID&terms=6486 (262 words)

	French Revolution -> The Revolution of 1789 on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		French Revolution -> The Revolution of 1789 on Encyclopedia.com 2002
		Parade celebrating the bicentenary of the French Revolution.
		The Mill of Valmy, memorial of the battle of 1792 (French Revolution 1789-1799).
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/frenchre_therevolutionof1789.asp (754 words)

	French & Saunders, French & Saunders on dvd, buy French & Saunders dvds, French & Saunders starring Jennifer Saunders ...
		The silver screen will never be the same once it's been processed thought the mad minds of Britain's greatest comedienne, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders (the creator and star of Absolutely Fabulous).
		Their 1987 BBC series is absolutely brilliant or, to quote one especially inspired performance artists sketch, "mindless, pornographic, pretentious and total crap".
		French and Saunders are brilliant as our fair ladies engage in Pythonesque absurdity (en extended conversation that begins when a couch-bound Jennifer refuses to answer the door because she has no leg bones), silliness (the girls pay homage to popular dances) and savagery (two matrons who prefer their blood-splattered furs freshly killed).
	www.appletothecore.com /tvshowdvds/frenchsaunders.htm (175 words)

	ABC Shop - French and Saunders, Best Of
		Featuring a selection of from the first four series of their famed TV series and all picked by Jennifer Saunders as some of her personal favourites, this compilation includes Bros Star Test, The Day In The Life of A Ballerina, The School Trip and is menu-driven with scene-selection.
		When Saunders spotted an advert for comediennes at The Comic Strip in 1980, they applied as a duo.
		Both comediennes have flourished individually, but this DVD is a celebration of premium contemporary comedy and a chance to indulge in the sheer genius of their combined humour.
	shop.abc.net.au /browse/product.asp?productid=728260 (287 words)

	DVD Talk > Reviews > French & Saunders - On the Rocks > Printer Friendly
		Although there are two other full episodes of the French & Saunders show on this disc that are included as "Extras", I'm going to describe them separately here as part of the disc, because they really do give you more bang for your buck in terms of buying this disc.
		The best moments are between the two women in the living room by the Christmas tree, but we are often taken away for some unrelated sketches, my favorite being when a mother tells her little son that she's divorcing his father.
		French and Saunders are both funny women—and I'd say French actually outshines Saunders in many of their skits, but the humor is just not as strong as that of the Saunders solo project, and even without comparisons, is not as consistently funny.
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/print.php?ID=14616 (830 words)

	French and Saunders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Dawn French, the less than tall one, and Jennifer Saunders, the non-shortish one, met way back during the eighties when hair was big and comedy was languishing.
		When not working together on the French and Saunders series or their frequent Comic Strip and stage collaborations, the pair put their talents to still more good use.
		Dawn French has had a pair of excellent, though very different, series of her own, the charming foodie program Scoff and the marvelous clerical comedy The Vicar of Dibley.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/british_television/10493 (499 words)

	French and Saunders: Ab Fab, Vicar of Dibley e.t.c... - The Sisters Three
		French and Saunders: Ab Fab, Vicar of Dibley e.t.c...
		Jennifer Saunders also voiced the Fairy Gomother in Shrek 2, just in case people (shame on you) don't know her.
		This is for French and Saunders only...and their respective spin-off shows.
	www.thesistersthree.com /forums/showthread.php?t=9505 (2120 words)

	French & Saunders: Gentlemen Prefer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		French & Saunders are great comediennes and can turn even the most boring sketch, like the one where Saunders visits the jail into a mildly amusing 5 minutes.
		Comment: Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders are two of the funniest women in British comedy today.
		Dawn French is probably best known in the U.S. for her PBS appearances on The Vicar of Dibley and Murder Most Horrid.
	www.findtutorials.com /shop/0793960371/French_Saunders_Gentlemen_Prefer.html (723 words)

	Wikipedia: Parody
		Roman writers explained parody as an imitation of one poet by another for humorous effect.
		In French Neo-classical literature, "parody" was also a type of poem where one work's style is imitated by another for humorous effects.
		The first usage in English of the word "parody" is in Ben Jonson, in "Every Man in His Humour." Jonson uses the term without any explanation -- suggesting that the word was already understood by some part of the audience.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/p/pa/parody.html (1067 words)

	Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders \| DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		French and Saunders are great comediennes and can turn even the most boring sketch, like the one where Saunders visits the jail into a mildly amusing 5 minutes.
		Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders are two of the funniest women in British comedy today.
		(They are the co-writers of the hit show, Absolutely Fabulous!) Their sketch-comedy show, French and Saunders, is rightly considered one of the funniest that the BBC has ever produced.
	electronics.globalgiftshopping.com /gentlemen-prefer-french-saunders,B00005U2KK_i.htm (893 words)

	Amazon.com: DVD: French & Saunders - The Ingenue Years (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Some of this is inevitably dated, and there are references that will soar over the heads of non-Anglophiles, but fans who discovered these two titanically talented women from their breakthrough series, The Vicar of Dibley and Absolutely Fabulous, respectively, will enjoy seeing the roots of their comedy.
		This collection has what is some of the earliest material from any of the French & Saunders DVD collections and some of the best.
		I love French and Saunders, but out of all of their 4 DVDs for sale this one is the worst.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000A02YF?v=glance (895 words)

	French & Saunders Collection 6 Pack on DVD - MovieWeb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		GENTLEMEN PREFER FRENCH & SAUNDERS: Another bout of wit and wry spoofs from the two wisecracking Brits, who take dead aim at Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell, the magazine industry, and ABBA, among others.
		Having established their names in the 1980s alongside a welter of alternative comedians such as Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson, Alexie Sayle, and Ben Elton, French & Saunders subsequently carved out a niche for themselves in their own right, with a series of shows that cemented the reputation of their quirky double-act.
		French & Saunders have enjoyed fame with separate projects (ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS, THE VICAR OF DIBLEY), but it's when the duo come together that fans really rejoice, and BACK WITH A VENGEANCE will surely delight all followers of the inimitable duo.
	movieweb.com /dvd/dvd.php?794051221025 (437 words)

	French & Saunders TV Show - French & Saunders Television Show - TV.com
		French and Saunders, the world-class comedy duo, have been around now for nearly 20 years entertaining us through the box in the corner.
		French and Saunders are famous for many takes/spoofs; but most notably the world famous comedy show Absolutely Fabulous, which started in the late 80s, early 90s as a small sketch of ‘a modern mother and daughter.' For the first four series they...
		French and Saunders have to take their ideas to offers, they have NOTHING!
	www.tv.com /french-and-saunders/show/3050/summary.html (123 words)

	French and Saunders-The Best Of (1987)
		I have never been a big fan of Absolutely Fabulous, however, this earlier work of Jennifer Saunders with the wonderful Dawn French (star of The Vicar of Dibley amongst others) stuck in my memory and when I saw this disc come up for review I jumped at it.
		French & Saunders ran on BBC 2 from 1987 to 1993, but only four seasons were produced in that time.
		Another later season was shown on BBC 1 in 1996, however, this does not seem to feature on the disc, as far as I can tell.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ID=5250 (855 words)

	French & Saunders & AbFab -- Har are yew?
		You see both the show and the backstage bits, so here is a guide to try and explain what was in the series.
		The Hot Hoofers dancing to the French and Saunders theme tune 'Bop a doo ee oo' and Jennifer and Dawns entrance with Jennifer sat on a throne.
		A BBC announcement is played saying French and Saunders has been cancelled.
	www.freewebs.com /eddypiehands/frenchsaundersguide.htm (1518 words)

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