Patsy's Age Is Printed in the Newspaper | Absolutely Fabulous

Patsy is furious when a newspaper gets her age very wrong. But how old is Patsy? (contains language which some may find offensive).
Absolutely Fabulous Season 2 Episode 1
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[@thegreenmanofnorwich]

"Fash Mag Slag" is one of my favourite turns of phrase.

[@iamamodel7]

Just after it cuts, Eddie's mother says the scandal is much more exciting that the ones in her day, and Eddie says "God, what were the scandals like in your day? 'Woman Shows Ankle To Chimney Sweep Shock'?" One of my favourite lines from AbFab.

[@wakeupcall2665]

Mine is: I always wanted to study the indigenous people of Northern Africa for my anthropology module at college this term! 😂 Patsy: NO! Eddy: What? Let her go to Morocco. We’re going to Marrakesh! Just brilliant writing!

[@Earthneedsado-over177]

" making a fool of himself with some scrawny old hooker ". She got the best line.

[@AnnaBellaChannel]

Gran knew it was Pasty.

[@worrywart1311]

@@AnnaBellaChannel "Pasty" is pretty funny too, even if inadvertent.

[@stephennewton2777]

Often did too 😆

[@multiplesifl]

I'm 39, and every time I tell someone my age, I hear Patsy scream it in my head. :p

[@daniels7907]

I wouldn't feel bad. My mother was 29 for several years. Took me a while to find out her real age and I was only a kid.

[@er2206]

Lol!

[@danrose7078]

I have decided that when I turn 39, I shall simply stop aging.

[@upthebracket26]

you're older than Patsy now :)

[@danrose7078]

@@upthebracket26 I'm 23.

[@daniels7907]

She actually died decades earlier, but she rose again as a kind of variant vampire that survives on alcohol instead of blood.

[@evrbody]

She and Keith Richards are made of the same stuff.

[@maxklein1614]

It's a highly specific combination of Stoli, Veuve and cocaine. One crisp can send the entire balance into crisis.

[@monicamattox72]

"variant vampire" that is SPOT ON well done....good on Ya

[@AfrodityJones]

Yass!

[@Artisticmonkey2]

God that or she’s literally pickled lmao

[@AlanCanon2222]

"And I'm an OVUM." One Sunday night in a neighborhood bar in Louisville, Kentucky, I got to pick the weekly Sunday video marathon and I picked AbFab. We started the marathon early when the pub was mostly populated with mid-South blue collar "manly men" who had probably never seen a British comedy outside of Monty Python. They were absolutely riveted by AbFab, roaring with laughter at every turn, and I gather a few stayed past their bedtimes to see "just one more episode" of this madness.

[@WomanNextDoor]

My favorite scene was Patsy emerging like a Phoenix from the fire in the kitchen. Not a word uttered just the perfect comedy moment.

[@willyboy6126]

"Shocked wife of MP keeps silent" .... " *BITCH...BITCH!!!* " ...LMFAO!!! XD

[@aeonjoey3d]

bahhaahaha!!!!

[@Panwere36]

Well, in reality.. the wife most likely had her own "on the side" going on as well.

[@patrickcannady2066]

Joanna Lumley’s physical comedy in this scene is out of this world funny.😆 “BASTARDS!” 😅😅😅 and “I’LL SUE!!!!” 😅😅😅 the delivery is pitch perfect.

[@craig1538]

Forgot how hilarious this show is. Absolute brilliance.

[@josephsmall4270]

Patsy: "I'll sue!!!"

[@sarahmccollum3694]

I will never get tired of the passive aggressive "Sweetie darling" lol great show!

[@MzLunaCee]

It is a brilliant line, I use it sometimes when I'm shading my friends, lol. X

[@johhue]

Funniest moment ever on this show: "She inhaled our kitchen"

[@mikeyd946]

Patsy Stone…..47! I’ll sue!!!!!!!!!! 😂😂😂

[@johnfoley4892]

She's absolutely amazing in that role

[@jbanks979]

Fun fact : Joanna Lumley was actually 47 here (and looked fabulous). Jennifer Saunders was about 34 (but I think Eddie was supposed to be in her mid 40’s) Patsy I think got retconned to be in her late 70’s by the third season…

[@JC-yy8iv]

That’s what I was just thinking, the gag of her age gets exaggerated as the show goes on

[@spookyspice596]

Joanna Lumley is just a gem!

[@timriehl1500]

Very worried. One of my daughters wants to be Patsy when she grows up.

[@multiplesifl]

Who doesn't, sweetie?

[@nightw4tchman]

I'm a (fairly straight) guy and I want to be Patsy when I grow up.

[@apsarasangreal84]

Don't worry. My bff in college and I named ourselves after ab fab... I'm still Patsy

[@douglasdixon524]

Well, Patsy apparently has loads of money, so why not.

[@lalagonegaga]

Worries? You should be proud!

[@geoffwright9570]

A brilliant program with very good actresses at the top of their game. They really would be a hard act to follow. And we loved every episode.

[@TheUprightLuthier-1959]

Albert Einstein was brilliant. This is mildly bawdy. Not worth watching.

[@teresasch3734]

@@TheUprightLuthier-1959 why are U watching then

[@TheUprightLuthier-1959]

@@teresasch3734 Are you stalking me? Bully. Reported. Stay away from me.

[@Emma88178]

And Jennifer wrote most of the episodes. But both of them are so funny.

[@finncullen]

@@TheUprightLuthier-1959"and yet I shall click on the video on KZbin in order to comment to show just how uninterested I am in it. Tomorrow I shall ring up the piano teacher in a neighbouring town to complain that I saw an advertisement for their services in a music magazine when I have no interest in music."

[@Jayjen35]

"FASH - MAG - SLAG"

[@mikemonopoli120]

Fun fact; Eddie and Saffy are closer in age in real life than Eddie and Patsy.

[@Panwere36]

And Saffy still is very lovely too.

[@puirYorick]

The two (Julia & Jennifer) actually played rival roommate starving actresses in an early one-off precursor to AbFab where most of the AbFab performers appeared as sort of versions of their later roles in the show. Lumley lived in the flat below or something and June Whitfield (Gran) was living with a failed agent guy who I only recall in a guest role from a single AbFab. There was also a French & Saunders sketch where Dawn French played schoolgirl Saffy to Jennifer's Edina character.

[@SDoesNotKnow]

@@puirYorick Are you talking about Mirrorball? That show debuted in-between The 1994 special The Last Shout and AbFab’s 2001 resurrection. I think it was too similar to AbFab so it didn’t take off.

[@puirYorick]

@@SDoesNotKnow Quite possibly that was the real timeline. I only ever saw a single episode and it was clear that it was the same AbFab cast but they were all doing show-biz types interacting in much the same way with trading barbs and whatnot. My main thought was that Jenn & Julia were indeed more of a similar age in this other show than their Eddy & Saffy characters.

[@waynepantry7023]

@@Panwere36 That's a creepy comment . . .

[@madahad9]

I haven't seen many episodes but my favourite among those I've seen is the one where Saffy writes the play about her experiences growing up with her mother and Patsy. It makes me laugh every time I see it. Living with them would be a nightmare.

[@tiger38able]

A rare gem of a series that gave me laughs- One of my faves was when they rented a a country estate, I think in France, they couldn’t speak French! They ended up staying in the gardeners cottage mistaking it for the main house - which was a mansion - that they learned about on the day they were supposed to leave? Lol

[@Essenceofblood5238]

And Patsy ended up scoring Talcum powder (I think) instead of cocaine and was disgusted that she actually enjoyed playing table tennis or some shit... SOBER! 😂🤣 Great stuff.

[@CBlargh]

...and Bubble turns out to be fluent in French.

[@tomhaskett5161]

I laughed at the French bloke coming to the door and saying "what the f*** are you doing here?" and they couldn't understand!

[@istvanpraha]

I remember watching his repeatedly when it came out and I was a young teenager thinking I could definitely afford a townhouse in London or NY or something and not have to work hard and just sit around sipping champagne:-). Oh, how wrong I was

[@JustinLHopkins]

I love this comment. Me too. Surely it’s not that difficult to own a large home in those cities.

[@jamesenglish2649]

Ha!! Same

[@williamwilson7479]

@steve C Eddy may have been wealthy in her own right from her portrayal on the show....but got the impression that Patsy was distinctly poverty stricken

[@aeonjoey3d]

right!?!?!!? XD

[@Benjamin_Gellman]

that's the whole point of the show.

[@jimmyjamestruscott]

I think this is one of the most ICONIC scenes of all seasons of Ab Fab!

[@seanmaher2987]

As a 47-year-old, this somehow makes me feel both good and bad.

[@acciid]

Yeah ditto. Although I look young for my age. I swear, I don't look a day over 46.

[@lymarie1974]

Same 🤣

[@charlotteq8460]

I feel bad because I was 21 when I first saw this and I remember thinking how "old" even 39 was. I'm turning 49 this year................

[@jeffwalsh6015]

Don't worry, men get more attractive as they get older.

[@rick_terscale1111]

And you're looking fabulous for 47! ;)

[@stephennewton2777]

June Whitfield surgically delivering killer lines.

[@johngore5127]

"Another scrawny old hooker ..." Hilarious!

[@c2757]

She's got form for it you know. Hands up all those who remember her as 'Eff in Take It From Here, before Patsy was born even if she is 47!

[@grahvis]

@@c2757 . Oh Ron.

[@VoyageOne1]

Saffy’s comeback of “and I’m an ovum” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Essenceofblood5238]

Oh is THAT what she said? Drove me nuts after hearing it back 3 times and still not getting it. Was gonna comment to see if anyone knew. Thanks for saving me the trouble! And that is a great line, btw. 🤣

[@lechatnoir1923]

Absolutely fabulous 4 J's Jennifer, Joanna, Julia and June. Thank you, ladies.

[@pauldaignault4506]

Fash Mag Slag!😂😂

[@davidpar2]

Based on her sister Jackie’s age, I think Patsy must’ve been born about ‘36

[@tomjones8610]

That would make her 85 this year...lol...

[@tobybartlett]

@@tomjones8610 Based on the movie that sounds about right. 😀

[@tomjones8610]

@@tobybartlett 'NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'

[@mistersurrealist]

@@tomjones8610 No! She's 39 (still)!

[@judistench2167]

@@mistersurrealist And I’m an Ovum...😂😂😂

[@XX-gy7ue]

ABSOLUTELY MAGNIFICENT

[@daviddixon9458]

One of the best shows ever made.

[@Panwere36]

Saffy always had the best acid tongue retorts!

[@LemLTay]

Though the answer that "gran" had to Edina's claim that "inside of me, inside of me is a thin person trying to get out", of "just the one, dear?" was a hoot!

[@johngore5127]

Saffy is just as mean as the rest of them. That's what's so funny.

[@Panwere36]

@@johngore5127 , but unlike them, she has a reason for her mean streak.

[@tomspence8506]

​@@Panwere36I personally always thought that even though Edina and Patsy probably deserved Saffy's anger there were times when Saffy went too far. In one episode Edina together with Patsy, Fleur and Catriona were drinking champagne 🍾 🥂 and talking about the September 11th terrorist attack on the world trade centre in New York🗽which is known as 9/11 and Edina accidentally thought it was called 7/11 because she was confused with the 7/11 convenience store 🏪 chain in America 🇺🇲 and Saffy was just really nasty to her mum for making a mistake which really wasn't justified at all. If fact sometimes I thought Saffy was just a horrible person although maybe I was misinterpreting the shows humour.

[@markrichards6863]

She was the adult in that room.

[@evinchester7820]

I remember seeing this about 20 years ago. AND I STILL LOVE IT NOW LIKE I DID THEN. Those women are DANGEROUS.... ...wish I had their number....lol

[@Slothgreedenvy]

Even vodoo magic can't kill Patsy.

[@stephenguppy8886]

I always tell everyone I am 39 even though I am almost 60. It is a running joke between my friends and I but I got the idea from Jack Benny. This, though, is gold!

[@deborahchasteen3206]

Jack Benny! I may be holding at 39, but my skin doesn't care...

[@markrichards6863]

I'm 64, I say I've recently celebrated my 39th birthday.

[@hotelmario510]

"I'm 39!" "And I'm an ovum."

[@zaphodsrealm1549]

Absolutely brilliant writing and acting, one of the few series I've bought all the DVDs of.

[@golden-63]

Gran is my hero!

[@Myrkky100]

The perfect ending for that sequence.

[@MzLunaCee]

Joanna Lumley is literally fabulous!!!

[@indefatigable8193]

As I enter my late 30s… I get the non stop drinking thing lol

[@GeeBoggs]

That was one of the best AfFab scenes ever!

[@mp539]

Loved this show, especially Patsy who never ate food, only lived on champagne. Two funny, great actresses.

[@geoffreypiltz271]

47 was Joanna's real age when this was shown in 1994 (if her Wikipedia birth date is correct). Brave.

[@johndownie9385]

any body else notice that patsy put her hand in that blender at the end ...very brave of Joanna couldve lost fingers doing that

[@johngore5127]

This has to be one of my favorite episodes. So much cringy stuff in this. Especially her horrendous face lift at the end.

[@Blackwater_House]

They say that the hardest Ten Years in Any Woman’s Life are the Ten Years between 29 and 30.

[@DavidStevenson-yh8sb]

HA

[@ph8077]

I've never met a woman who was actually the age they claimed when the 2nd number is a '9'

[@Helen-mh8mq]

They are absolutely the best!!!!🤣🤣🤣

[@molsongrrrl]

I'm sorry but Saffy is always my favorite. I just love her.

[@johngore5127]

And she's just as mean as the rest of them. I wonder how many people notice that.

[@spede1]

I love Saffron

[@sweeney60]

She really does hold her own against the two of them. She’s more grounded but just as bitchy. I fucking love these women!

[@privategirl4716]

I'll also always love Saffy. You can't help but love her. She's sweet, humble, nonnarcissistic, honest, decent, classy, cute, smart, cool, and lovely. All of this show's characters are great, important, and lovable in their own way. Again let's all also never forget French and Saunders and all the other great actors they've ever or will work with just spoof on all of us people in this world's personality extremities. Even theirs. It never was nor will be meant taken seriously or offensive. It's just for fun.

[@monicamattox72]

@@privategirl4716 too true I had a DREAM that the AB FAB cast was stranded with CAR TROUBLE in the Village of DIBLEY on Sunday and Elton John was a NO Show so they hit the C o E on SUNDAY to find parking in the car park it would be Shakespearean yes?

[@fob1xxl]

One of the FUNNIEST SITCOMS EVER ! I HOWLED EVERY WEEK !STILL HAVE MY "AB FAB" T-SHIRT ! 💙🇬🇧

[@MMCUSN]

I was better at 59 than I was at 49. Once you jump over 50 the ride gets far more interesting.

[@randomcenturion7264]

Really? Good to know. 27 at the minute and everything feels like it's going crazy.

[@MoultrieGeek]

and easier.

[@MrRibby88]

Classic scene!

[@queen4269]

Yes ma'am! These ladies raised me up in BBC Satire

[@markfox1545]

A good scene was when the kitchen burned down around her as she slept with her head on the table. The side of her face and head that was on the table was still immaculately made-up while the other side was blackened like the entire kitchen. 😅

[@MzLunaCee]

I look like that most mornings!

[@InsaneNuYawka]

47 ?? That seems way too young ... more like 74 then I would have freaked

[@ryancoulter4797]

47? I’m 47!

[@mistersurrealist]

47 in the early 90s was old (for a woman).

[@NikolaTheodore]

she's 39!

[@jetnight88]

@@ryancoulter4797 ahhhhhh 😭 You are 39

[@natmanprime4295]

Boomers in the 90s should be in their 50s, and she was clearly a boomer

[@htimsid]

That confetti coming out of the blender, priceless!

[@user-iz7iy8ct4l]

A brillant show really - The texts are chiseled with fine gold and the acting is breathtaking. I have rarely laughed so much when watching certain episodes for the first time. "Sex" is one of them. I was watching these episodes when I was barely 30 years old. and laughing at the jokes made about Patsy's age. And I realize now that I am Patsy's age haaaaaaa

[@ericmaine]

"Fash Mag Slag!" 😄😄😄😄😄

[@jcortese3300]

This whole episode is the funniest piece of television ever created. I was laughing so hard by the end that my face hurt. These women are BRILLIANT.

[@lewis7515]

"Will you be popping in there, dahling - after a hard day's lecture - for some, 'Half a pint of shandy _booze'_ ?!....And some pork _scracklings?!!_ ....."

[@aeonjoey3d]

BOOZE!? BOOZE???

[@alanwisdom7777]

Queen furious, it's not you 😆🤣🤣🤣

[@aporue5893]

''42?!'' *wheezes* 😂😂😂

[@philbecker4676]

It's 47...

[@chrispnw2547]

@2:17 Eddie and and sound she makes gets me every time. I sorely miss her.

[@feliciajenkins5041]

Soo glad it's on Hulu😊

[@rgadave]

Totally Brilliant !.

[@stevehughes1510]

Classic...........just love it.

[@williamgebhart2435]

I absolutely loved that show.

[@vulcan2882]

I loved watching reruns of AbFab.

[@vickilindberg6336]

Just been watching her story on a PBS production. So far, very intertaining.

[@pleasedontfeedthe6235]

weird, about a week ago before this wound up in my recommended I had a dream that Patsy was like 100 years old and Edina had to help her feebly get around and get dressed and eat, etc and I woke up CRYYYYYYYYING! PATSY IS AGELESS!

[@Jay-Jones]

You must REALLY like AbFab

[@pleasedontfeedthe6235]

@@Jay-Jones 😆

[@flybobbie1449]

Think they did a sketch as care home residents in the future.

[@grbmajor6645]

I don't know what this is, who this is, or how old this is.......but I loved it.

[@royfr8136]

Oh, shite, Im suddenly the same age as Patsy - I saw this show when I was 16

[@zuhairiiriahuz9099]

I'll sue !! 😂😂

[@charlotteoleary196]

I'm 47 and I died when she said how old she was!!! Oh god am I really as old as Patsy?

[@welshpete12]

OH no your not , you are 21 plus !

[@TirOrah]

Pretty sure you're 39, sweetie darling! But in all seriousness, age is but a number. ^^

[@tomspence8506]

A newspaper📰🗞️ article at the end of the episode says "PASTY STONE 49 RECOVERING AT HOME AFTER HORRIFIC FACELIFT" with a sub headline saying "I feel like a whole new woman". Of course Patsy if you've had an acid peel you're bound to feel like a whole new woman LOL!

[@rick_terscale1111]

AbFab Fun Facts 2 = Age differences, year of birth : Joanna Lumley = 1946 Jennifer Saunders = 1958 Julia Sawalha = 1968 June Whitfield = 1925 Patsy & Eddie were supposed to have been school friends. But in real life their age difference is 12 years. Therefore Eddie would have been starting school when Patsy was finishing school. Eddie & Saffy are mother and daughter. But in real life their age difference is 10 years. That would mean that Eddie would have had Saffy when she was 10 years old.

[@philbecker4676]

The school thing is explained a bit. Patsy said she was bigger than the teacher when she started nursery, and a series 5 flashback shows Eddy and Patsy at school, Eddy being a child and Patsy being a grown woman.

[@BIGGGESTAL]

I would have paid for that😂😂😂

[@bryn494]

Friend had us all over for the W/E, mid-70s. He had no TV but had bought one for his brother's birthday present some months earlier. TV license guy shows up (all alone...) and demands to search so he's led into the living room and there's about 10-15 hung-over unhappy greasers sleeping on the floor. He disappeared and came back with a PC to search the premises. They were very thorough but a TV's a bit hard to 'plant' :D

[@pschroeter1]

I see my decades old crush on Saffy is intact. "I don't want to be a pie."

[@philbecker4676]

Bubble's actress said that in Chicken Run.

[@RBS_]

***...FOUR LETTER PATSY IN MP SEX ROW!!!!....*** (1:09) ...ha-HAA!! ....I looooove that line!

[@LeaveAhNah]

I CRAVE THAT KITCHEN!!

[@lynnewhitelam7495]

Fash Mag Slag.... thats on my dating profile.

[@m.e.valdez8662]

47…ughhhh. I’ll SUE!!

[@OnlyThe1Son]

classic show

[@user-no5hs2wc2t]

These friends would keep you on your toes. Who does not know how she feels!

[@touristguy87]

...well the basic problem is that they've specified AN age in the article. Definitely ripe for a libel suit.

[@giancarlojacobs9982]

wow patsy actually used Saffy's name!

[@urfavsh1teditor]

I was thinking the exact same thing 😂

[@Hylas67]

Iconic

[@CBlargh]

Joanna Lumley is a genius... and she was born in bloody buggery India! I just found that out...

[@chantellepride6368]

Patsy: I'LL SUE!!!!!!!!!

[@cervelo9465]

Gorgeous at any age. Also relatable to the older one in the original Sex and the City (Samantha).

[@robinknight545]

😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

[@brianlam1663]

Ebsolutely phebulous, dahling!!!

[@pspence9569]

She's gripping that cushion, under her arm, as though it's providing support, or it hurts to put the arm down.

[@rhondastc9884]

I was 47 for five years 10 years ago does that count?

[@annalisavajda252]

Lol.

[@welshpete12]

They tried to film some scenes for the show in the centre of New York . But it was impossible they where swamped by adoring American fans .

[@philbecker4676]

Aside from the fact many scenes of the show were filmed in the centre of New York, rendering your story untrue, cool story.

[@twilomix]

Fash Mag Slag lol

[@rick_terscale1111]

AbFab Fun Fact = The real names of the AbFab ladies all start with the letter J : Joanna Lumley Jennifer Saunders Julia Sawalha June Whitfield

[@philbecker4676]

Yes, everyone knows, and you missed out Jane Horrocks.

[@themsmloveswar3985]

They forgot to print her IQ.

[@pk1645]

Every 47 year old is a victim.