French & Saunders - Living in a Material World

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Summary: Another Piece of Rollicking Fun by FRENCH & SAUNDERS
Review: Simply hilarious. My favorite sketches are the DR. QUIMN, MAD WOMAN sketches ("She's sleeping now.") with Dawn French as Fanny, who tends to fall down. I also enjoyed the BRAVEHEART and BAYWATCH (with Dawn French as Pamela Anderson!) lampoons. Very entertaining.

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Summary: Genius parody
Review: This may be French's and Saunders's finest work of all. Those familiar with them largely through ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS or their broader humor from the earlier French and Saunders series will be surprised at how subtle they are capable of being here. Jennifer Saunders' awesomely controlled imitation of Jane Seymour (in perhaps their most hilarious of all parodies, DR. QUIMN, MAD WOMAN) is a case in point. Who even dreamed that Jane Seymour *could* be parodied at all? (Saunders does it by looking incredibly sincerely at whomever she's speaking to and murmuring vaguely audible comforting things; when at one point she speaks, in a moment of crisis, at a normal human level, she has to turn back to murmur, "I'm sorry I raised my voice at you just now...") Dawn French makes a memorable Pamela Anderson in their BAYWATCH parody (she not only gets the hair and lipstick down perfectly but also the spaced-out look of concern), and then the production staff serves them brilliantly with a Fellini parody that is so exact--even down to the film stock used---that it must be seen to be believed.