French & Saunders Vs Birds Of A Feather (Comic Relief, 1991)

The Nose At Ten, 1996 - the French & Saunders/Birds of a Feather cross-over! WOW!
Not my copyright (obviously), just sharing found ephemera.

[@allisonday893]

32 years ago! Where does time go

[@taylordot8431]

Jennifer's stink-face through this entire skit cracks me up before they even start talking.

[@715michala]

Jen is way funnier than dawn

[@715michala]

@@raeturner8711 then again Joanna Lumley is funnier than jen in Ab Fab

[@gilgameshofuruk4060]

@@715michala It shows how generous a writer Jennifer is that she gave so many scene stealing moments to Joanna and June Whitfield.

[@sexobscura]

@@715michala Couldn't get enough F+S, but when AbFab started I didn't think it'd be funny as Jennifer was always the 'straight man' - how wrong I was Vicar Of Dibley on the other hand - SHEE-ITE

[@715michala]

@@sexobscura yup DF not so funny in vicar of Dib.personally I think Joanna Lumley is much funnier in Ad Fab with JS. They work better together with hilarious one liners from patsy stone lol well written better written

[@DistantCousin]

One of my favourite F & S sketches - I can quote it word for word! Wedding VAAAAAAHS!

[@TayWoode]

Same here! Me and my mates are always saying “Jahmbow?”, “ow many bedrooms ya got dahlin?”, “she means the kahzeeeeee”, “nice mag o chaaaarr”

[@DaveF327]

"Jimmy Greaves - piss" .. 😂😂😂 That line nearly made me wee 😂😂😂

[@ppotter]

Hahahahahahahahaha. It's the only line I ever remember.

[@terrybaker8156]

Dawn French looks like that sidekick in Kath and Kim

[@kessmarl]

Magda Szubanski

[@channelfadge7438]

Ive always wondered if sharon in kath and kims look was inspired by sharon in birds of a feather

[@leonardssenkindu8445]

True, lol 😂😈

[@lakehayden]

@@channelfadge7438 there’s a bowl cut connection 😂beyond that, Sharon Strezlecki is the total opposite of Sharon Theodopolopidous. And although Szubanski used Sharon in K&K, she created her years before on a show called Big Girls Blouse

[@nikiTricoteuse]

What a gem. We had Birds of a Feather briefly here in Aotearoa New Zealand and French and Saunders but l've never seen this. It's brilliant.

[@terrytezzbigtel]

' plates of meat' paaaaaahaaa ' jimmy greaves... Piss' I died at that bit 😂

[@ppotter]

That's the only line I remembered when re-watching :)

[@terrytezzbigtel]

ppotter thanks for uploading it. It's so good to see it again!

[@carolcoates3750]

Four of our finest comedians in the same studio! Brilliant!

[@welshmarvel84]

Well three and Linda Robson.

[@PDC-yb9qs]

Three and Linda Robson*

[@PDC-yb9qs]

​@@welshmarvel84😂😂 I didn't see this before I replied 😂😂

[@juliaphillips7963]

I am so happy to see these sketches. I need subtitles tough. When they try on the jumble clothes was hysterical.

[@The_Raff_G]

5:16 Linda Robson smiling and trying to hold it together. Lol

[@suzannemoogan9675]

WONDERFUL STUFF FROM THE BEST Dawn and JEN!!

[@katehealy4130]

Love the four girls brilliant ACTORS wish we could see more of them

[@kathybarry2765]

Yes 🌹

[@anitaevans2432]

Linda Robson is certainly not a brilliant actor.

[@charlie2ism]

@@anitaevans2432 I agree - she plays herself!

[@robertclatworthy1857]

They made me laugh. Still laughing in 2022 😂😂😂😂😂

[@mikesinclair7135]

That was absolutely hilarious I literally cried laughing 😄😄😄😄

[@Nige031077]

Comic Relief, way better than the Sport Relief that replaced it, from the days of decent tv comedy. Thanks for uploading.

[@kbhprinsesse]

"Oi! Fergie, Diana, tea's up!" 😂😂😂

[@jameshumphreys9715]

French is the spitting image of Pauline

[@Greenwillow]

Love Birds of a Feather. Never copped till now the similarity between Sharon and Tracey and Jennifer and Dawn.😉

[@Animefreakess]

True fact. Pauline actually predated French and Saunders with her own sketch show in the 70's!

[@ppotter]

Indeed she did.

[@FiveSigma72]

Was that also utterly shit like Birds of a Feather?

[@terrybaker8156]

@@FiveSigma72 here for French and Saunders then?

[@kbhprinsesse]

She was also in a couple of episodes of "The Duchess of Duke Street" as Pearl, another cockney character.

[@TimelordUK]

I remember them both from Shine On Harvey Moon

[@7ChocolateMusic4]

And don't keep doin' that wi' ya maaaaff

[@saxongreen78]

F&S had ripped _Birds of a Fevvah_ in an earlier episode...it was killer! (The goodwill enjoyed by this duo was really quite remarkable - class act.)

[@maxsommers6843]

Ahm findin' it so 'ard to keep mah weddin' vaaaahhhhs!

[@TayWoode]

I remember that, saying they’d got the wrong day and it was a mistake from the make up department as if they were the same people

[@SamuelBlack84]

I remember as a kid my mum watched Birds of A Feather practically on loop 😅

[@petersinclair8718]

Concurred 4 of our finest comedienes at their best.

[@anandmorris]

​@@greenfields1221miranda hart?! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 she's abysmal

[@storageheater]

@@anandmorris say what you like about Miranda Hart, she was in a show about a man who was being manipulated by his father to have sex with snails, and I'll defend her to the end for that absolute madness

[@anandmorris]

Nostalgia flooding back.

[@toddbeaton1512]

french and saunders are so amazing

[@avenger67]

'by the look of them Stevie Wonder'.... BAHAHA

[@kjamison5951]

3:42 “‘Ere look, British Home Stores” I used to work in British Home Stores... They are classic comedians. No act like them since. Nothing was sacred and they piled it on thick...

[@Beautyinthebreakdown.]

Oh my god 😂😂😂 I LOVE IT!

[@nealneofitou4929]

I'd love an haaaaaaaaaaaaaass like this! Hahaha

[@wooburn_off]

You know Jimmy, Jimmy Grieves.... piss

[@jonathanfurzeland4740]

Cracks me up lol

[@casanovamacbeth]

This had me laughing out a loud. French & Saunders at their absolute peak here.

[@tommoclement]

Love it.

[@nickmorrell3559]

How does Jennifer do it ..?...she always looks like her subject

[@oathy03]

This was funnier than the reboot on ITV . It could have worked on ITV it was a huge shame, ITV Clearly wanted it toned down

[@jayrobinson7554]

I agree ITVs was naff, was really excited to see it return but was disappointed, and the amount of continuity errors was embarrassing especially as it was the original writers, the lack of garths child and Chris mum coming back from the dead to name 2 of them.

[@mrsweetscottyd7890]

Jennifer Saunders has the embodiment and mannerisms of Pam shipman here (mum from gavin and Stacey)!

[@ppotter]

Alison Steadman? Never seen it, but I get what you mean :)

[@mrsweetscottyd7890]

@@ppotter yup lol

[@bwhitedale]

Hilarious!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣 Amazing xx

[@jamiefallon5805]

Absoutely love this

[@FrankNFurter1000]

Nice mug-a-CHAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaa

[@paulsmith-ll9vg]

if theres ever a new series of birds of a feather, and the girls are not about, can we have french and saunders playing them, i almost could not tell the difference.

[@kellycastles1412]

Love it

[@heeeeeresrossy]

One word... Genius!

[@pugglepooch]

The facial expressions of French & Saunders 😅😢😂

[@anthonygulliver8675]

Classic brilliance

[@kathybarry2765]

Just brilliant...😂👍

[@GilesArt]

Cuppa CHAAAAAUUUURRRRRRRRRRR

[@gdparry2727]

When Comic Relief was funny

[@madwhitehare3635]

You can see where Catherine Tate might have got Nan from!

[@IhaveMy0pinion]

Love love love this❤

[@scouser2010ify]

Yeah well we’re ere na isn’t weeeeeee

[@lorrainet4515]

It's a shame they are not friend's any more 😢😢

[@Paradeboy]

What u mean?

[@grxgghxrpxr]

They are friends, it's just rubbish articles spreading lies

[@DistantCousin]

Just to say this is from 1991, not 1996 as described :)

[@ppotter]

"French & Saunders Vs Birds Of A Feather (Comic Relief, 1991)" Repeated as part of The Nose At Ten in 1996

[@ppotter]

Repeated as part of The Nose At Ten in 1996... Repeated as part of The Nose At Ten in 1996... Repeated as part of The Nose At Ten in 1996... Repeated as part of The Nose At Ten in 1996... Repeated as part of The Nose At Ten in 1996

[@CJ-ji1pq]

Should have had Dorian in on it as well!

[@kbhprinsesse]

1:42 Jennifer Saunders looks like she's about to laugh :D

[@amyclarke41]

love it

[@jed_91]

Do remake of this 2019

[@martianboy]

nice mug of chaaaaaaaah!!

[@tinajaneoxnam1346]

Brilliant.BOAFvfrench & Saunders.

[@EnidColeslaw]

This is insanely meta!

[@michaelritchie2968]

Jimmy Graves - Piss.

[@uniquerebeljaney3639]

That was the best part.

[@kevinoldham8421]

God. So like them.🤣🤣🤣

[@robbiecrossing9447]

thats a very early episode

[@freddiemeyer4563]

gotta love linda robson

[@RexOrwell]

Have we? Is that because she's a woman?

[@PlasticGirl65]

@@RexOrwell No, because she is a nice person.

[@ticketyboo2456]

@@RexOrwell Are you always so easily triggered? Bet you're fun at parties...

[@ticketyboo2456]

F&S achieve the impossible; making the dire Birds of a Feather funny...

[@martianboy]

well - we're 'eeere naaaaw inntt-weeeee!!!

[@phil4977]

Brilliant

[@susiehenders]

Jimmy Greaves - piss 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@mikeydoyle3987]

En suite two of em on heat

[@bonniescott6470]

😂😂😂😂😂 so funny 👍

[@kezzachadda8175]

Pure genius haaaaaaaaa !!!!

[@josephlucas4246]

So cool and funny

[@ruthking5994]

Birds of a feather I mean

[@Martdiva1979]

0:36 1:01 1:22 5:11 5:31

[@simon2k4]

So funny 😂

[@gettrick32]

When do you visit Runcorn WA7

[@ttp436]

Never seen this one it was good could have been funnier

[@peterberry2664]

Bring back tho that when tv was best now its load shit on box and thy except us pay tv liecin ya right no on my watch! Lol

[@Dim4323]

Don't mess with birds of a feather

[@telectronix1368]

#Fevaaa

[@alelooooooya]

2:20 haha

[@supersaiyanjack9233]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@logiclanguagelearningFrench]

Cockney is not Essex! Tracey and Sharon were quite pretty when younger ha

[@duncanmit5307]

💜👍💜👍💜😂

[@stephenirons1892]

🤣 🤣 🤣

[@najbritcol]

Aah

[@littlea2]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@sannimcable]

Lol 😆

[@charliekane135]

French and Saunders are great, Comic Relief is dead thanks to Henry.

[@gogogogogirl]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

[@Anna-ic5wh]

Hahahahaaha

[@Me-hs4jj]

Hahahahahahaha.

[@nanair2007mk]

Ha ha ha uuuuuuuuuu

[@sexobscura]

*At least French + Saunders made it ACTUALLY funny*

[@MarieAntoinette1755]

Birds of a feather IS funny

[@miladydewinter7770]

@@MarieAntoinette1755 Funny? No x

[@MarieAntoinette1755]

@@miladydewinter7770 You aren't funny either, so you can't say much

[@miladydewinter7770]

@@MarieAntoinette1755 How clever of you to know that since you've never even seen one of my videos

[@Dim4323]

Birds of a feather is more funny then french and Saunders

[@chasleask8533]

More FUNNIER !!!

[@chorleystar]

@@chasleask8533 even funnier 🙄. More funnier is bad English

[@chasleask8533]

@@chorleystar Aww gawd , yoo dahn mee ahp goodan' pwopah .

[@kaylaireland3494]

It’s really annoying, coz Dawn and Jennifer are using the wrong accent and vocabulary. Birds of a Feather where Essex not Cockney

[@vixWal]

birds of a feather is set in Essex but Linda Robson and Pauline Quirke are both from London, that's why they call French and Sunders a pair South London slappers.

[@willg4802]

The poor Critish, forced to settle for shows about horrible old goo holes.

[@nativenewlondoner]

Birds of a Feather is many times funnier than F&S.

[@howardsend6589]

Can someone link me to the one second in their careers when French and Sawdust were actually funny please?

[@ticketyboo2456]

They've outlasted dead Rik and hubby Ade at least.

[@stuarty72]

Birds of a feather was utter shit

[@ohuntermc9321]

It was great!!

[@michelles2299]

I loved it

[@ruthking5994]

God what a crap show

[@ppotter]

This is all you ever have to see of it. Plus the words "Dor" and "Garfie" - that was the whole series in a nutshell.

[@ruthking5994]

Yeah and the clothes were ughhhhhhhh

[@grxgghxrpxr]

@@ppotter then why are you uploading videos of it if it's that bad?