French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years

This collection of material from the BBC sketch comedy program French & Saunders focuses on the show's earliest episodes, from the late '80s. The duo's signature film and TV parodies are in short supply, although Dawn French does essay the role of Elizabeth Taylor as Maggie the Cat in a send-up of ...more

Viewers with a voracious appetite for the pop culture send-ups of British comedy team Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders have plenty of other video collections to savor, most notably French & Saunders: At the Movies. Those who prefer the duo's delicious predilection for skewering every segment of British society will find French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years more to their liking. As performers, Saunders and French can nail the accent, the attitude, and the facial tics of all sorts of characters, ...more