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Absolutely Fabulous! Jennifer Saunders teases a sequel
The talented star has revealed that it is a possibility - depending on whether people go to watch it.
Claire Rutter, The Mirror, 30th June 2016Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie review
Some were trepidatious about this belated big-screen outing for the fashionista sitcom. In fact, post-referendum, the timing couldn't be better ... and neither could Joanna Lumley.
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 30th June 2016Film review: 'Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie'
Structure is as much anathema to Saunders' writing style as it is to her alter ego's entire lifestyle; this is the comedic equivalent of paintball, and when her splatter-shots land, they do so to raucous effect.
Guy Lodge, Yahoo, 30th June 2016Absolutely Fabulous: The movie - bolly good show!
The jokes spring out at you from our crumpled old friends, sharp and fresh and pleasingly tasteless.
Libby Purves, Daily Mail, 30th June 2016Review - Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
BBC comedy makes a wobbly transfer to the big screen but its two delicious lead performances keep the comedy fizzing along.
Jason Solomons, Reuters, 30th June 2016'Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie': Review
"All I ever wanted was not to be fat and old!" cries PR guru and bad gran Edina Monsoon, bewailing the time when "the zeitgeist used to run right through me". As her best friend Patsy injects herself with Botox, flips through Tinder and quaffs Chanel No 5 because they've run out of Bolly, it's clear that writer/star Jennifer Saunders hasn't lost her touch over the quarter century since these characters were first conceived for TV.
Fionnuala Halligan, Screen Daily, 30th June 2016Review: Bristol Comedy Garden
Bringing such intellect and masterful delivery to The Big Top on its opening night, Stewart Lee has set the standard high at this year's Comedy Garden.
Serena Cherry, Bristol 24/7, 30th June 2016Film Review: Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
A personal appearance by the Queen herself would do little to distract from the joyous, film-driving chemistry between Saunders and Lumley, two effervescent pros who fit each other as comfortably as a sensible pair of flat-heeled shoes.
Guy Lodge, Variety, 30th June 201615 Fabulous facts about Absolutely Fabulous
Absolutely Fabulous is one of Britain's best-loved comedies, made wonderful by the fabulous characters of Patsy Stone and Eddie Monsoon. Here are some little known facts that all superfans should know.
Readers Digest, 30th June 2016Broadcast Digital Awards: Best Entertainment Programme
A "fantastically innovative comedy" which generated a massive Twitter buzz and unanimously impressed the judges with its originality.
Broadcast, 30th June 2016Broadcast Digital Awards: Best Scripted Programme
Yet another award for Michaela Coel's bulging trophy cabinet, but rarely does a comedy arrive so fresh, funny and fully formed, with real swagger and confidence about what it wants to be and say.
Broadcast, 30th June 2016Broadcast Digital Awards: Best Scripted Online Short
Shot in two days with a stripped-back crew, using innovative production techniques, judges described the warm-hearted farce 'utterly hilarious and brilliantly executed'.
Broadcast, 30th June 2016Fringe preview: Beth Vyse
One of the most memorable shows in Edinburgh last summer was Beth Vyse's As Funny As Cancer.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 30th June 2016Absolutely Fabulous - The Movie: review
Ab Fab is truly back, fatter and shinier than ever! A bit of sparkle in these bleak times. So, Jennifer Saunders I am obliged to say: cheers, thanks a lot.
Kate Stone, Funny Women, 30th June 2016Review: Cardinal Burns/Tony Law
Cardinal Burns are an incredible force on stage, wielding their talent for acting and characterisation alongside well-scripted lazy human interaction. Focusing on hypocrisy, power struggles and the complexities of male relationships and sexuality, it's simple sketch comedy at its best.
Jo Duncan, Bristol 24/7, 30th June 2016Cardinal Burns delve into the realms of ridiculousness
Cardinal Burns are pushing sketch comedy into the realms of the absurd whilst staying true to careful, truthful and strikingly accurate observations of human behaviour.
Ella Evans, The Bristol Post, 30th June 2016Absolutely Fabulous review
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie is ridiculous, riotous and a bit of a mess but Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley save the day and raise our spirits when we need them the most.
Stefan Kyriazis, The Daily Express, 30th June 2016Absolutely Fabulous The Movie review
'It certainly makes better use of its armies of celebrities than was managed in Zoolander 2'
Geoffrey Macnab, The Independent, 30th June 2016Absolutely Fabulous - The Movie review
So, what could the sweetest end be to the shittiest of weeks? Watching two of our fabulous female greats reprising roles that define the essence of bonkers (and genius) British comedy - yes Patsy and Eddie, we've buggering well missed you sweeties, and thank Christ you're back/
Amie-Jo Locke, InStyle, 30th June 2016Review: Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Fans are unlikely to be disappointed.
Charles Grant, Heat Magazine, 30th June 2016Ab Fab The Movie review: cameos drab, but leads are fab
No matter how much fashion has moved forward, Eddy and Patsy will always be in style.
Hanna Flint, Metro, 30th June 2016Absolutely Fabulous the Movie: the magic is still there
Remarkably, the questions 'why now' or simply 'why' feel irrelevant when watching the Absolutely Fabulous movie.
Jim Palmer, Wimbledon Guardian, 30th June 2016Queen sex jokes a 'serious breach' of guidelines
A BBC Radio 4 show broadcast on the Queen's 90th birthday that included jokes about her sex life was in "serious breach" of editorial guidelines, the BBC Trust has ruled.
BBC News, 30th June 2016The anti-erotica of My Dad Wrote A Porno
Jamie Morton was handed a pornographic novel by his father - and decided to read it out to millions of people. As the second series of his hit podcast begins, its team unpack how topless sales meetings and 'labial pinkness' are spun into comedy gold.
Nell Frizzell, The Guardian, 30th June 20165 minutes with: Liam Williams
The comedian on his new play, his Twelfth Night With Comedians and why festivals are so good
Daisy Bowie-Sell, What's On Stage, 30th June 2016Ab Fab The Movie review: Patsy and Eddy turned up to 11 (Link expired)
Despite its flimsy plot, this remains worth seeing for the comic chemistry between Saunders and Lumley, which is as irresistible as it is hilarious.
Matthew Turner, WOW247, 30th June 2016Review - Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
In all, Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie is as hit and miss as the TV show was, once upon a time. Lumley shines, Saunders tries hard, but the thin story is against them from the start, as well as the feeling that we have seen all of this before.
Brogen Hayes, Movies.ie, 30th June 2016Review: Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Celeb cameos galore - including one from a GSN staffer! - in this screwball comedy, but beware a lazy Caitlyn Jenner-inspired subplot, sweetie.
Jamie Tabberer, Gay Star News, 30th June 2016Ab Fa Movie is better fashion satire than Zoolander 2
It's got fewer Hollywood stars and a much lower budget but the sitcom movie nails fashionista desperation much better than Ben Stiller's laboured sequel.
Benjamin Lee, The Guardian, 30th June 2016Mark Hamill is a massive fan of... Bottom
Greg Davies reveals how he was able to cast the Luke S star in the third series of his Channel 4 comedy Man Down.
Ben Dowell, Radio Times, 30th June 2016Every Home Should Have One: DVD review
The humour is adolescent throughout. A movie that ought to have given the increasingly tired-looking Carry On series a run for its money is a curious period piece that captures the ad game well it has it has its brighter moments like the take-offs of Ken Russell, Benny Hill, a Swedish nudist picture and a hell-for-leather Buster Keaton-like fight sequence in the BBC props room. It was ad guru David Ogilvy who said that advertising was 'the best fun you can have with your clothes on'. Every Home Should Have One proves him wrong.
Ken Wilson, TV Bomb, 30th June 2016Review: Whisky Galore!
Alexander Mackendrick's 1949 Ealing original, based on the novel by Compton MacKenzie was timely, set as it was during rationing, and tapping into a genuine lack as a boat load of whisky miraculously runs aground off a small Hebridean island a few weeks after the locals' supply runs dry. Here, in these gluttonous times, it becomes a one joke comedy. That joke being, us Scots like a drink.
Kevin Wight, TV Bomb, 30th June 2016BBC refuses to condemn comic who pranked David Blunkett
A BBC comedian pranked Lord David Blunkett, taking advantage of his blindness to fool him into thinking he was a Labour party insider. Heydon Prowse, who fronts the BBC programme The Revolution Will Be Televised played the trick on the former Home Secretary, who has been blind since birth.
Mikey Smith, The Mirror, 30th June 2016Fears raised over future of Monkeyshine comedy festival
Middlesbrough's Stewart Park was set to host Monkeyshine festival in July, but tickets no longer on sale online.
Ian Johnson, Teesside Gazette, 30th June 2016Armando Iannucci wants you to stop giving him credit
The Thick Of It creator wants to you to stop giving him credit for the UK's mad politics.
Hanna Flint, Metro, 30th June 2016Review: Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
Joanna Lumley steals the show in the sitcom's fun, not quite fabulous big screen outing.
Katherine McLaughlin, The List, 30th June 2016Ask the expert: Stefan Golaszewski
Stefan Golaszewski is the writer and Executive Producer behind BBC2's latest comedy success, Mum, as well as BBC3's Him & Her, which won the BAFTA for best sitcom in 2014. Stefan is soon to be working on a second series of Mum, which has already been recommissioned by the BBC. To learn more about the career of a comedy writer, I asked Stefan a few questions about his work...
Becca Moody, Moody Comedy, 30th June 2016Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie review: Sometimes funny
A must for fans of the TV series, even if the story goes nowhere in particular.
Nigel Andrews, The Financial Times, 30th June 2016Alex Kealy is Going Solo
Alex Kealy says he has the voice of David Cameron and the politics of Jeremy Corbyn. He talks to Martin Walker about his debut solo hour for Edinburgh.
Martin Walker, Broadway Baby, 30th June 2016A Frenchman's advice for post-Brexit European tourists
Marcel Lucont reveals his top 8 tips for European tourists in a post-Brexit London.
Marcel Lucont, Londonist, 30th June 2016What's it like to have mental health issues on circuit?
"It's a double edged sword in that in one regard comedy is incredibly accepting," comedian Felicity Ward tells us.
Ryan Barrell, The Huffington Post, 30th June 2016BWW Q&A - Steve Bugeja
Comedian Steve Bugeja speaks to BWW about his new Edinburgh Fringe show Unpronounceable.
Natalie O'Donoghue, Broadway World, 30th June 2016ShitComs Episode #2: Honky Sausages
Honky Sausages didn't even finish its first series, which was aired on the now defunct UK Play. Even the channel it was on sounds like a grubby phone-in sex channel. It wasn't allowed to complete its deplorable mission because we wouldn't let it. A new year and a new life beckoned, and we weren't about to have "Honky Bitch" ruin it.
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