Distributor:
Roadshow Home Entertainment Certificate: PG | 102
minutes Writers: Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders
Available to buy Extras: No
ANYONE
IN IT WE KNOW?
Dawn
French, Jennifer Saunders, Rowland Rivron,
WHAT’S
IT ABOUT THEN?
A
handy compilation of some of the
best moments from Dawn French
and Jennifer Saunder’s long
running BBC sketch show.
SO
IS IT ANY GOOD?
Having
started their careers heavily involved with the infamous Comic Strip
team (Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson, Ben Elton et al who would be
responsible for much of the decent comedy output of the 1980’s) Dawn
French and Jennifer Saunders gained their own BBC2 show, wisely the
girls ignored the political humour that has dated much of the comic
strip material and focused instead on popular culture, paying particular
attention to Hollywood and its stars poking fun at the likes of Liz
Taylor and Liza Minelli as well as pop stars such as the very bad Bros
and even Abba (these are hilarious and feature Rowland Rivron as one of
the hairy members of Abba).
The TV show House of
Elliot (and pompous costume drama in general comes in for a bit of stick
renamed here The House of Idiot) best of all though are the two sex
obsessed elderly Fat Men (both Jen and Dawn look very realistic in their
latex suits and grubby old men’s clothes) who reappear regularly
through the discs 102 minutes running time. Pretty much the perfect
primer for anyone who has yet to experience French and Saunders and a
handy compilation for the already converted.
