By dint of plenty of entertainment experimentation and a lucky chance meeting with her lifelong friend Dawn French, she felt her way toward a sometimes exercise capacity of comic writing and performance. Listen and you will hear her distinctive voice delivery.Īpart from her early years as an Air Force brat (which didn’t seem to do any damage), Saunders seems to have had pretty good adolescent and early adult years which straddle a comfortable middle class country background through to student slumming adventures. In this sense it has elements of typical stand-up comedy and reminded me of the sainted Graham Chapman’s autobiography ‘A Liar’s Autobiography, Volume VI’. The reader is regularly addressed in friendly self-deprecating terms while the linear format is regularly interrupted by lines of tangential thought that may clarify or simply explore ideas or events. I enjoyed the structure and format of this bibliography which I would describe (unsurprisingly) as typical of English comic writers. This is not to say that there have been other attempts, most famously the French version described in this book where Edina and Patsy sat with Catherine Deneuve and JS slaughtered her lines in French. As she is reported as saying ‘My proper New Year’s resolution is to do the film, otherwise it’ll be a pointless year of procrastination.’ Given her notorious capacity for delay, many will only believe it when shooting begins. First, news sources early this year have claimed that JS has finished an initial draft of ‘the movie’.

My experience has been that the comedy most closely associated with Jennifer Saunders ‘Absolutely Fabulous’ tends to divide the world into two camps, so I proceed for the benefit of fans and those interested.

Bonkers by jennifer saunders