The Funny Ladies of British Comedy

Let's hear it for the ladies! The funny ladies, that is. It's time to pay tribute to British television's finest comediennes and the memorable characters they portray.

Think of social climber extraordinaire Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced "bouquet", of course). And how about that chocolate-guzzling vicar, Geraldine Grainger, whose bawdy jokes sailed right over the head of ditzy verger Alice? And Sybil Fawlty, whose cry of "BASIL!" still inspires fear and laughter after nearly thirty years!

Join Patricia Routledge (Keeping Up Appearances), Dawn French (The Vicar of Dibley), Prunella Scales (Fawlty Towers), Mollie Sugden (Are You Being Served?), and many more funny ladies in this celebration of their careers and contributions. Combining new interviews with clips of their funniest moments, The Funny Ladies of British Comedy takes you behind the scenes of your favorite Britcoms, and answers the question, "Who makes these funny ladies laugh?"

Hosted by Penelope Keith (To the Manor Born).

Chris Barrie
Philip Bretherton
Richard Briers
Moira Brooker
John Cleese
Judy Cornwell
Dame Judi Dench
Dawn French
Lenny Henry
Geoffrey Hughes
Penelope Keith
Felicity Kendall
Geraldine McNulty
Patricia Routledge
Andrew Sachs
Prunella Scales
Mollie Sugden
Frank Thornton

Written by Duane Huey
Directed by Duane Huey
Produced by Julius Cain, Duane Huey, Michael M. Seymour, Bill Young

Sybil Fawlty's braying laugh was Prunella Scales' own invention. John Cleese says it sounds like somebody machine-gunning a seal.