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Jennifer Saunders

February 2024

  • The Scottish singer and TV personality Lulu

    The reader interview
    Lulu: ‘David Bowie got me. Part of me thinks: what if the relationship continued?’

    The stentorian Scottish pop singer, actor and TV staple answers your queries about Eurovision glory, nibbling biscuits with the Who, and flying high with Take That

October 2023

  • SUMOTHERHOOD Press publicity film still supplied by PR

    Sumotherhood review – Adam Deacon’s gang culture parody falls flat

    This supposed skewering of macho posturing turns everything into one big joke – and Ed Sheeran’s role is best forgotten

September 2023

  • Adrian Edmondson

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Adrian Edmondson: ‘I’ve won more prizes for vegetables than I have for comedy’

    The Young Ones star on butting brick walls, the real reason he took a role in Star Wars and how he and his wife, Jennifer Saunders, split the gardening

April 2023

  • Arthur Parkinson shot for the Observer magazine at Crackleberry Farm

    The best original photographs from the Observer
    Original Observer Photography

    The best original photographs from the Observer commissioned in March 2023

March 2023

  • (From left) David Tennant, Zoë Ball and Paddy McGuinness were among the presenters of Comic Relief

    Comic Relief raises over £34m as stars parody The Traitors and Eurovision

    Hosts of BBC fundraiser include AJ Odudu and Paddy McGuinness but Lenny Henry is absent for first time
  • Jennifer Saunders wears white shirt with puffed sleeves, painted nails and jewellery

    ‘The funniest stuff is just chatting’: Jennifer Saunders on coping with modern life and why family comes first

    For years, Jennifer Saunders’ silliness, zaniness and gleeful vulgarity has made her one of our most brilliant comedians. But now she finds herself doing ‘active acting’. She talks about postboxes, puzzling and why she couldn’t be happier
  • ‘I don’t dye my hair’ … Bill Bailey and Kathy Burke.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Kathy Burke’s wonderfully uplifting documentary about getting older

    Just before her 59th birthday, Burke is on typically frank form as she speaks to Jennifer Saunders and Bill Bailey about ageing. Plus: The Bay returns. Here’s what to watch this evening

February 2023

  • Judi Dench and Bally Gill during the filming of Allelujah.

    ‘We fetishised being young – it’s just stupid!’: Judi Dench and Richard Eyre on ageing, Covid and saving the NHS

    Shot in 2021, a film of Allelujah, Alan Bennett’s 2018 play set on a geriatric ward, is released next month. How relevant does it remain? Its stars, including Jennifer Saunders and Bally Gill, share their thoughts during production – and more than a year later

October 2022

  • ‘Her first appearance takes some beating’ … Amy Winehouse.

    Ranked
    The 100 greatest BBC music performances – ranked!

    As the Beeb celebrates its centenary, we take a look at its most memorable pop moments, from the birth of grime to the first sightings of Bob Dylan and Bob Marley, plus TOTP goes Madchester and countless classic Peel sessions

July 2022

  • Bad habits … Jennifer Saunders and Beverley Knight in Sister Act.

    Sister Act review – Beverley Knight and Jennifer Saunders bring the laughs as rebel nuns

    Knight and Saunders are full-throated and bristling in the hit musical-from-a-film, with a sprawling cast and hip flasks aplenty

May 2022

  • Mike Myers as Ken Scarborough, Lydia West as Reilly Clayton and Mike Meyers as Anthony Landsdowne in The Pentaverate

    TV review
    The Pentaverate review – Mike Myers is back, and he’s still an accomplished idiot

    The Austin Powers star plays almost every character in this sweet, silly, charmingly harmless comedy about a secret society – when he’s not joined by the likes of Rob Lowe and Jennifer Saunders

April 2022

  • Ben Fodor, AKA Seattle ‘superhero’ Phoenix Jones, outside court in 2011.

    Miranda Sawyer on podcasts and radio
    The week in audio: Whatever Happened to Baby Jane Austen?; The Superhero Complex; Hear Her Voice; Cheat!

    French and Saunders front an old-school gagfest, while podcasting’s obsession with egotistical frauds and con artists continues

February 2022

  • A load of old ‘tache … Kenneth Branagh as Hercule Poirot.

    Death on the Nile review – Kenneth Branagh makes heavy weather of Christie caper

    Branagh’s spirited performance as Poirot and a big-name ensemble cast can’t keep this stale and two-dimensional whodunnit afloat

December 2021

  • Eric Morecambe, left, and Ernie Wise.

    Bring me sunshine: ‘new’ Morecambe and Wise Show episode brings Christmas cheer

  • Spooky, scary … Jennifer Saunders as Lavinia and Martha Howe-Douglas as Lady Button in Ghosts.

    TV review
    Ghosts Christmas special review – the Jennifer Saunders cameo is utterly perfect

October 2021

  • CHUCK STEEL: NIGHT OF THE TRAMPIRES

    Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires review – gleefully violent 80s throwback

    A sweary, ninja-smashing stop-motion cop takes on drunken creatures of the night, but his satirical tools aren’t sharp enough

September 2021

  • Blithe Spirit by Noel Coward, Theatre Royal Bath Production Sept 2021 Harold Pinter Theatre London

    Blithe Spirit review – even Jennifer Saunders can’t save this deadly revival

    A lovely physical performance by Saunders brings moments of joy to an otherwise unsettled production of Noël Coward’s comedy

July 2021

  • Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French: Funny Women.

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: French and Saunders on their top female comics

    The sketch comedy duo trawl through the archive for formative clips of Wood, Walters and more. Plus: Beck investigates a murder. Here’s what to watch this evening

March 2020

  • Jennifer Saunders as Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit at the Duke of Yorks

    The many incarnations of Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit – in pictures

    With Jennifer Saunders playing Madame Arcati in London, and a new film adaptation with Judi Dench on the way, we look back at productions starring Angela Lansbury, Joanna Lumley and many more

October 2019

  • Whoopi Goldberg

    Whoopi Goldberg to star in Sister Act musical in West End

    Actor to reprise role she played in two hit films on London stage alongside Jennifer Saunders
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