French & Saunders: Living in a Material World

This compendium of material from the BBC sketch comedy program French & Saunders pokes fun at everything from Baywatch and the Batman franchise to Björk and Ingmar Bergman, stopping along the way to mock British tennis players and postcolonial biddies. Most of the material dates from the early to ...more

Like Absolutely Fabulous, the hit comedy it spawned and later was eclipsed by, French & Saunders can be maddeningly uneven. American viewers who missed the original BBC shows can enjoy many of their best moments on the collections French & Saunders: At the Movies and French & Saunders: Gentlemen Prefer; this additional compendium includes some choice material but comes off too scattershot to satisfy fully. Some of the best and the worst bits are movie and TV parodies. Julie Brown's Medusa: Dare ...more