Funny Women
- TV documentary
- BBC Two
- 1997 - 1999
- 8 episodes (3 series)
Factual series documenting the comedy credentials of some of Britain's greatest female comedy performers.
Press clippings
Mollie Sugden: Her career in clips
Best known for her portrayal of Mrs Slocombe in Are You Being Served?, Mollie Sugden's comic talent lives on in these YouTube clips...
James Donaghy, The Guardian, 2nd July 2009Tricks of the comedy trade
I presume that's why, during last night's Funny Women (BBC2), Bennett generously referred to the Kitty monologues written by Victoria Wood, even though the meagre sketches she'd knocked out for Patricia Routledge were simply reheated morsels foraged from Bennett's table. Routledge is an immaculate character actress, and Bennett was clearly pleased to be able to praise her artistry, but the programme was nevertheless a thinly-veiled excuse for the BBC to give one more outing to several dozen elderly sitcom clips, albeit interspersed with some memorable observations from a writer who's surley Britain's greatest Talking Head.
Victor Lewis-Smith, Evening Standard, 2nd July 1998