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Need a laugh? It's French and Saunders to the rescue
When the days are cold and dark and the times are bleak, you have to take the laughs where you can get them. So thank goodness for Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, charging to the rescue like knights on a white stallion - or perhaps more like two drunk aunties on a pantomime horse.
Charlotte Runcie, The Telegraph, 6th January 2021Comedy podcasts round-up 1: from home and abroad
Podcasts have got many of us through 2020, starved as we have been for most of it of live comedy to leave the house to see. Here's a selection of some of the best; they are available on all podcast platforms unless stated.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 7th December 2020French & Saunders to star in Radio 4 comedy
Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders will star in Whatever Happened To Baby Jane Austen?, a one-off festive Radio 4 comedy about two sisters. Radio 4's other festive highlights include new episodes of Ed Reardon's Week and Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show!.
British Comedy Guide, 30th November 2020ITV's winter schedule to feature Billy Connolly and Mr Bean
ITV's festive schedule will feature documentaries about Billy Connolly and Mr Bean. It's also revealed a number of other shows and comedy Christmas specials.
British Comedy Guide, 11th November 2020Jennifer Saunders to present ITV talk show in a car
Jennifer Saunders is to present Memory Lane, a ITV talk show in which she drives a guest around in a 1960s E-Type Jaguar.
British Comedy Guide, 6th November 2020French & Saunders snubbed 'pathetic' Strictly
Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders (62) have rejected offers to compete on "pathetic" Strictly Come Dancing.
The BBC comedians insisted it's "terribly undignified" for older women as they would be partnered with Anton du Beke, 54, and not one of the younger dancers like Aljaz Skorjanec, 30.
Howell Davies, The Sun, 7th October 2020Stunning portraits of stellar stand-ups
From Ken Dodd and his tickling stick to Nina Conti and her monkey, Guardian photographer Tristram Kenton has snapped a host of superb comedians on stage.
Tristram Kenton, The Guardian, 9th September 2020There's Something About Movies returning to Sky for Series 3
Sky One has ordered a third series of panel show There's Something About Movies, plus new runs of A League Of Their Own and its European Road Trip spin-off.
British Comedy Guide, 29th June 2020Dawn French teasing new project with Jennifer Saunders
Dawn French has teased an exciting new project with her on-screen partner-in-crime Jennifer Saunders.
Mary Gallagher, The Sun, 17th June 2020Jennifer Saunders distances herself from PPE rant
Jennifer Saunders took to Twitter to deny that she wrote a rant defending the government over its perceived failure to provide PPE for key workers.
Molly Pike, The Mirror, 28th April 2020