Jennifer Saunders
Jennifer Jane Saunders is an English comedienne, screenwriter, singer and actress. She has won two BAFTAs, an International Emmy Award, a British Comedy Award, a Rose d'Or Light Entertainment Festival Award, two Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards, and a Peoples Choice Award.
She first came into widespread attention in the 1980s and early 1990s when she became a member of The Comic Strip after graduating from the Central School of Speech and Drama. Along with her comedy partner Dawn French, she writes and stars in their eponymous sketch show, French & Saunders, and has received international acclaim for writing and playing the lead role of Edina Monsoon in the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous.
In her other work, she has guest starred in the American sitcoms Roseanne and Friends, and won the American People's Choice Award for voicing the wicked Fairy Godmother in DreamWorks' animated Shrek 2. More recently, she wrote and starred in Jam & Jerusalem and The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 14.848 |
| Birthday | 1958-07-06 |
| Place of Birth | Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England, UK |
| Also Known As | 제니퍼 손더스, Jennifer Jane Saunders, |
2004
Shrek 2
7.274/11989
Shrek, Fiona, and Donkey set off to Far, Far Away to meet Fiona's mother and father, the Queen and King. But not everyone is happily ever after. Shrek...
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Shrek 2
1996
Muppet Treasure Island
6.65/377
After telling the story of Flint's last journey to young Jim Hawkins, Billy Bones has a heart attack and dies just as Jim and his friends are attacked...
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Muppet Treasure Island
2006
L'Entente cordiale
4.57/43
The upper-class secret agent teaming up accidentally with an easily-corrupted, sly interpreter...
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L'Entente cordiale
1995
In the Bleak Midwinter
7/35
Out of work actor Joe volunteers to help try and save his sister's local church for the community by putting on a Christmas production of Hamlet, some...
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In the Bleak Midwinter
2009
Coraline
7.872/7616
A young girl discovers an idealized parallel universe behind a secret door in her new home, unaware that it contains a sinister secret.
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Coraline
2004
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
4.8/3
The Secret Policeman benefit shows for Amnesty International brought together comedy grand masters - from Python and Beyond the Fringe - and performer...
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Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
2001
Absolutely Fabulous
5/52
The wildly popular British television show Absolutely Fabulous gets a Francophonic makeover with this film version directed by Gabriel Aghion. In this...
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Absolutely Fabulous
2008
French and Saunders: Still Alive
5.2/3
French and Saunders, Britain’s most celebrated female comedians, bring their final ever sell-out Still Alive tour to DVD! Catch the last chance to wat...
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French and Saunders: Still Alive
2011
The Hunt for Tony Blair
7.8/4
The Comic Strip team return for a special 50s-style 'fugitive' film noir spoof. The 60-minute film, penned by Peter Richardson and Pete Richens, follo...
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The Hunt for Tony Blair
1989
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
7.5/2
After the criticisms of the 1987 show’s disproportionate focus on music - and the financial disaster of its music-only Festival Of Youth weekend conce...
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The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
1985
The Supergrass
6.2/11
While taking a holiday in the country with his mother, Dennis hits on a scheme to impress a girl so that she'll go away on a trip with him as his girl...
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The Supergrass
2012
The Spice Girls Story: Viva Forever!
8.7/3
15 years after they first took the world by storm, a new musical about the girls called Viva Forever! is about to hit the West End. The programme look...
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The Spice Girls Story: Viva Forever!
1996
Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout
7.4/4
Eddy and Patsy prepare to go on a skiing holiday to hopefully indulge in the jet-setting lifestyle of the international celebrity elite when Saffy is...
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Absolutely Fabulous: The Last Shout
2014
The Boy in the Dress
6.441/34
Dennis feels different - an ordinary boy in an ordinary house in an ordinary street, playing football with his mates and living with his dad and broth...
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The Boy in the Dress
1987
Eat the Rich
6.034/29
Alex is a disgruntled waiter at a snobby exclusive restaurant who falls on hard times. Forced to deal with the contempt and disgust of the upper class...
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Eat the Rich
2015
Minions
6.407/10326
Minions Stuart, Kevin and Bob are recruited by Scarlet Overkill, a super-villain who, alongside her inventor husband Herb, hatches a plot to take over...
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Minions
2016
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
5.3/236
Edina and Patsy are still oozing glitz and glamor, living the high life they are accustomed to; shopping, drinking and clubbing their way around Londo...
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Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
2015
Stick Man
6.811/102
Stick Man lives in the family tree with his Stick Lady Love and their stick children three, and he's heading on an epic adventure across the seasons....
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Stick Man
2016
Sing
7.112/7781
A koala named Buster recruits his best friend to help him drum up business for his theater by hosting a singing competition.
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Sing
1981
The Comic Strip
0/0
A tongue-in-cheek "behind the scenes" look at the Comic Strip comedy club in the early 1980s, which gave rise to 'The Comic Strip Presents'
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The Comic Strip
1988
Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
8.2/4
A couple of bored escorts find themselves suddenly involved with a hit gang and an ax murderer - Mr. Jolly. Gratuitous violence, rivers of blood, and...
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Mr Jolly Lives Next Door
2000
French & Saunders - Live
8.5/2
For the first time in 10 years, see Britain's funniest double act French & Saunders at their hilarious LIVE best... Together they perform their u...
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French & Saunders - Live
2016
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
5.7/2
Documentary celebrating the British sitcom and taking a look at the social and political context from which our favourite sitcoms grew. We enjoy a tri...
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British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
1997
Spice World
4.803/449
World famous pop group the Spice Girls zip around London in their luxurious double decker tour bus having various adventures and performing for their...
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Spice World
1988
The Strike
7/3
Paul, a former miner, writes a hard-hitting screenplay about his own experiences of the 1984 miners' strike. However, the Hollywood production company...
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The Strike
2018
Patrick
6.723/240
A woman's chaotic life becomes more complicated when she inherits her grandmother's dog.
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Patrick
2017
300 Years of French & Saunders
0/0
Dragged up all the way from the ocean bed, national treasures Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders are back together this festive season with a special 3...
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300 Years of French & Saunders
2018
Grandpa's Great Escape
6.063/16
Many years ago, Grandpa was a World War II flying ace, but sadly he is now suffering from Alzheimer's disease. When his family can no longer look afte...
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Grandpa's Great Escape
2018
Lady Windermere's Fan
10/1
The day of Lady Windermere’s birthday party, and all is perfectly in order. Until her friend Lord Darlington plants a seed of suspicion. Is her husban...
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Lady Windermere's Fan
1983
Bad News
8.7/6
A documentary crew films heavy metal band Bad News as they have trouble starting their van, pick up a schoolgirl groupie, and meet up with rock journa...
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Bad News
1988
More Bad News
9.8/4
Four years after they were last the subject of a documentary, the heavy metal band Bad News get back together again for another film of their exploits...
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More Bad News
1993
Space Virgins from Planet Sex
0/0
A craft full of Space Rats,glamorous extra-terrestrials from the planet Sex,arrive on Earth desperate to find men with whom they can procreate in orde...
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Space Virgins from Planet Sex
2017
Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers
10/1
Ab Fab stars Jennifer Saunders & Joanna Lumley share 25 years of friendship. The two funny ladies head to the Champagne region of France to find out h...
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Joanna and Jennifer: Absolutely Champers
1994
Dusty
8/1
A career retrospective celebrating the timeless music of one of the world's greatest singer–Dusty Springfield. For the first time, Dusty contributes t...
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Dusty
1999
Fanny & Elvis
6.5/4
Yorkshire writer Kate finds out her biological clock is ticking down the same day that her husband leaves her. To get over the financial crisis this c...
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Fanny & Elvis
1986
Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger
6.545/11
The Dangerous Brothers was a stage and TV act by anarchic comedy duo Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson, performing respectively as "Richard Dangerous" and...
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Dangerous Brothers Present: World of Danger
2019
Isn't It Romantic
6.214/3423
For a long time, Natalie, an Australian architect living in New York City, had always believed that what she had seen in rom-coms is all fantasy. But...
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Isn't It Romantic
2022
Death on the Nile
6.436/3528
Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfec...
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Death on the Nile
1990
GLC: The Carnage Continues
0/0
The Greater London Council fight to save the capital against the wicked Ice Maiden.
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GLC: The Carnage Continues
2019
Completely Bad News
0/0
A double offering of heavy metal madness from The Comic Strip and Bad News.
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Completely Bad News
1990
The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
0/0
Adapted from the Beatrix Potter story tells the story of the pignap of Little Pig Robinson by Captain Barnabus Butcher who fools Robinson into believi...
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The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
2011
French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years
0/0
No topic is off limits to the side-splitting sketch comedy partnership of Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, creators of the groundbreaking British si...
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French & Saunders: The Ingenue Years
2011
Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders
0/0
Gentlemen prefer blondes, but when Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders parody Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe, it's proof enough why comedy fans prefer...
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Gentlemen Prefer French & Saunders
2009
Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'
5/1
A look at the complexities and intricacies of making the 2009 stop motion animation film Coraline.
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Coraline: The Making of 'Coraline'
1993
Prince Cinders
0/0
Fairy-tale fantasy is turned on its head this time, as a fairy godmother in training commits the ultimate faux pas and transforms a handsome young man...
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Prince Cinders
2000
Mirrorball
8/2
Vivienne Keill and Jackie Riviera are a couple of aging stage actresses who live in vertically adjacent flats. The two are of questionable talent, and...
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Mirrorball
1993
French & Saunders: At the Movies
7.5/1
Comediennes and "Absolutely Fabulous" creators Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders star in this compilation of the best skits and spoofs from the fourth...
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French & Saunders: At the Movies
1984
A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
7/1
Two students calling themselves Carlos and Miguel arrive in Spain dressed as gunslingers to live out their dream of being in a spaghetti Western. At a...
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A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques
2024
Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps
0/0
Three Mysterious Curses, two lost souls... and one incredibly difficult dance. A lowly goatherd seeks out a reclusive witch to break the evil enchant...
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Man and Witch: The Dance of a Thousand Steps
2021
French & Saunders: Funny Women
8/1
Filmed on the set of their sketch show, much-loved duo Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders discuss all the crucial and female contributions to the panth...
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French & Saunders: Funny Women
2023
Allelujah
5.5/19
When news of the closure of a small hospital's geriatric ward begins to reach the community, the hospital invites a local news crew to document their...
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Allelujah
2001
Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl
0/0
A documentary tribute to the singer/songwriter who died on 18th December, 2000.
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Kirsty: The Life and Songs of Kirsty MacColl
2021
Sing 2
7.874/4247
Buster and his new cast now have their sights set on debuting a new show at the Crystal Tower Theater in glamorous Redshore City. But with no connecti...
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Sing 2
2017
Comic Relief: Red Nose Day
9/2
A fund-raising event organised by Comic Relief.
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Comic Relief: Red Nose Day
1988
An Audience With Victoria Wood
5.2/3
British comedy legend Victoria Wood entertains a star-studded audience including Julie Walters, Judi Dench and Dawn French in this 1988 special. Watch...
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An Audience With Victoria Wood
2019
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again
7.9/7
Jennifer Saunders and a host of famous faces star in this hilarious Comic Relief reimagining of the hit movie featuring some of ABBA's biggest hits as...
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Mamma Mia! Here We Go Yet Again
1990
French & Saunders LIVE
0/0
Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders perform a live comedy show in London's West End at the world famous Shaftesbury Theatre, in front of a hugely apprec...
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French & Saunders LIVE
1991
Amnesty International's Big 30
4/1
In the tradition of the acclaimed series of British concerts known as The Secret Policemen's Ball, Amnesty International celebrates its 50th Anniversa...
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Amnesty International's Big 30
2018
Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires
7.25/18
It's not 1985 anymore...it's 1986, and Chuck Steel is 'the best God damn cop on the force' according to his long suffering boss, Captain Jack Schitt....
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Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires
2023
Sumotherhood
5.389/9
Riko and Kane have got it all: big dreams, no respect and a fifteen grand debt. Could things get any worse? Yes! So, it’s time to man up and finally b...
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Sumotherhood
We Work for the Dead
0/0
If you're looking for a new side hustle, you could sign up with the Night Mail. It's a delivery service with a dark difference. You'll be working for...
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We Work for the Dead
2002
The Best of French & Saunders
0/0
A compilation of all the best sketches from Britain's favourite female comedy double-act. They are all here - the music numbers, Hollywood spoofs, the...
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The Best of French & Saunders
1998
Absolutely Fabulous: A Life
10/1
During the filming of her very own documentary, 'A Day in My Life', Edina drops in on her mother who's working in a Help the Aged charity shop. There,...
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Absolutely Fabulous: A Life
1995
How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
6/1
Jennifer Saunders hosts a party of AbFab outtakes and behind-the-scenes footage.
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How to Be Absolutely Fabulous
1982
Five Go Mad in Dorset
0/0
In the 1950s, four children, Anne, described as a 'proper little housewife', the rather butch George who has an unhealthy relationship with her dog Ti...
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Five Go Mad in Dorset
1984
Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
0/0
Eddie Monsoon is a South African entertainer who, following the failure of several pilot shows for TV in his homeland, faked his suicide, went to Braz...
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Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
1983
War
0/0
1985:- England has been invaded by the Warsaw Pact countries and middle-class couple Hermine and Godfrey retreat to their rural hide-away but after wi...
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War
1983
The Beat Generation
0/0
In the monochrome world of 1960, pretentious Alan, violent Kix and sex-mad Eleanor are part of a colony of beat poets, living a hedonistic, unreal exi...
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The Beat Generation
1983
Five Go Mad on Mescalin
0/0
On their way to stay with Mrs French at Hot Turkey Farm, the Famous Five hear on the radio their Uncle Quentin's escaped prison. Arriving at the farm...
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Five Go Mad on Mescalin
1984
Dirty Movie
0/0
Postman Bean is anxious to end his round early to catch a morning showing of 'The Sound of Muzak' at his local cinema. However, he is unaware that the...
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Dirty Movie
1984
Susie
0/0
In rural England, school teacher Susie Darling is planning to leave her boring husband Martin for lusty mechanic Dave when she meets romantic former p...
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Susie
1984
Gino: Full Story and Pics
0/0
A hoodlum is turned into a celebrity when he steals a cab and subsequent events are blown out of proportion by the media.
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Gino: Full Story and Pics
1984
Slags
0/0
Teen-age gang leaders Passion and Little Sister are released from prison, only to find that their gang the Slags has disbanded due to a rival gang, th...
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Slags
1986
Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
0/0
Jessica, the second Mrs Saunders, arrives with her new husband John at his country estate. Very much left to her own devices she is unnerved by the po...
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Consuela (or, The New Mrs Saunders)
1986
Private Enterprise
0/0
Whilst delivering toilet rolls to a recording studio, small-time crook Keith pockets a demo tape by the newly disbanded group Toy Department, which he...
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Private Enterprise
1990
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
0/0
Two security van personnel plan to rob a bank in an attempt to raise enough cash to mount a rescue mission when a dictator invades the Falklands.
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South Atlantic Raiders: Part 1
1990
South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
0/0
In the conclusion of this special two-part story, Stan has somehow managed to make it to the Falklands, which have indeed been taken over by the Argen...
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South Atlantic Raiders: Part 2 Argie Bargie!
1990
Oxford
0/0
When American comic actor Steve 'Zoo Zoo Zoo Off Come My Pants' Wild arrives in Oxford to make a comedy film, his girlfriend Caroline goes behind his...
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Oxford
1990
Spaghetti Hoops
0/0
In a monochrome city that is shamelessly London although everybody acts as if it is Rome, banker Aldo Vini is on the run from Mafia boss Corelli, from...
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Spaghetti Hoops
1992
Red Nose of Courage
0/0
A clown is not happy with his job at his father's circus so he gets into politics, and some weeks later he is the Prime Minister John Major. But after...
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Red Nose of Courage
1992
Wild Turkey
0/0
Jed, a New York cop, brings home the last Christmas turkey in the shop for his wife Sue. Unfortunately, they make a dramatic discovery whilst stuffing...
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Wild Turkey
1993
Demonella
0/0
Music producer Arnold Silverstein is desperate for a song hit so when the Devil - a woman - supplies him with the answer to his dreams, a piece called...
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Demonella
1983
Summer School
0/0
A motley band of suburbanites arrives at a summer school to simulate life in an Iron Age village. However, the village is right in the middle of a mod...
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Summer School
1993
Jealousy
0/0
Despite trying to cure himself with a hypnosis tape John Pettigrew is insanely jealous of his wife Jane Margory and convinced she is having an affair...
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Jealousy
1998
Four Men in a Car
0/0
Four salesmen Alan, Ian, Steve and Tim are on their way to a conference where only one of them is guaranteed promotion. There is much bickering, Steve...
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Four Men in a Car
2012
Five Go to Rehab
0/0
The Famous Five are back. Thirty years after the Comic Strip arrived on our screens with their famous Enid Blyton spoof - Five Go Mad in Dorset. These...
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Five Go to Rehab
2023
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
7/1
imagine... profiles the UK’s most successful double act of the last 40 years, French & Saunders, exploring a brand of comedy based on satire, sillines...
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imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
2023
Dawn French Is a Huge Tw*t
8.5/1
Live (almost) from London’s iconic Palladium theatre, the nation’s favourite comedy star, Dawn French, is about to reveal (almost) all the most excruc...
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Dawn French Is a Huge Tw*t
2012
30 Years of Comic Strip
0/0
In true Peter Richardson fashion, "30 Years Of Comic Strip" defies the conventional norms of a retrospective documentary. It brings together some of t...
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30 Years of Comic Strip
2024
200% Wolf
0/0
Heroic poodle Freddy Lupin has everything it takes to lead his werewolf pack. Except respect. If only he were more… wolfish. But when a wayward wish t...
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200% Wolf
Butterfly Stroke
0/0
Ruth is an eccentric, determined woman who wants control over everything. Even death. So, she goes to Zurich for a tidy, orderly exit. But her chaotic...
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