Joanna Lumley

Video: Ab Fab stars on growing old disgracefully

BBC Breakfast spoke to Joanna Lumley and Jennifer Saunders about the film adaptation of their hit TV series Absolutely Fabulous.

Benedict Cumberbatch turned down a role in Ab Fab movie

The Sherlock star was too busy to join Patsy and Eddie's big screen caper, reveals Joanna Lumley, but his mum Wanda Ventham cameos instead.

On the set of Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie

Patsy and Edina are back on the Bolly. But with cameos from Kate Moss, Gaultier and Alexa Chung, have they got too cosy with the world they're satirising?

Graham Norton is the master of pulling in the big guests and treating them to his charm, irreverence and sauce. This week he's joined by the inimitable Patsy and Edina (Joanna Lumley and Jennifer Saunders) for the release of Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie. Australian fun-bomb Rebel Wilson completes a lineup of witty women. There's also audience participation and music from sinewy rock cockroach Iggy Pop.

Joanna Lumley: political correctness makes comedy hard

People take offence at the smallest things, which used to be just funny.

Patsy's best one-liners

To gird our loins for the return of PR's most disruptive trailblazers, we're warming up by a roll call of Patsy's most zinging one-liners.

35 life lessons learned from Eddy and Patsy

We look at the life lessons the pair have taught us since they first drunkenly stumbled into our lives back in 1992...

Joanna Lumley reveals that Patsy is transgender

"It's completely normal that Patsy is transgender."

Interview: Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley

Fashion people aren't famed for having a sense of humor about their personal lives, which makes the success of Absolutely Fabulous in haute circles something of an enigma.