World Famous Comics: Absolutely Fabulous, The Complete Collection
Absolutely Fabulous, The Complete Collection
Starring: Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley, Benjamin Soames Average Rating: Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC Label: 20th Century Fox Number of Items: 7 Release Date: October 15, 1996 Theatrical Release Date: July 24, 1994
Amazon.com essential video: This is not your parents' sitcom. Two middle-aged tarts smoke, swallow, and bed everything in their paranoid paths and are all the more fun for being so unabashedly vulgar. Jennifer Saunders stars as the queen of excess; Joanna Lumley is her promiscuous best friend in this groundbreaking, side-splitting satire. Created by the uninhibited team of Saunders and Dawn French, the series was written by Saunders. This set includes all 18 of the 30-minute episodes from the British TV series; the less-than-thrilling 30-minute midseason special, How to Be Absolutely Fabulous. Anglophiles and anarchists will love this, but consider yourself forewarned--it is strictly adult material. --Rochelle O'Gorman
Screwball Isn't Dead These beautifully funny shows rival the old screwball comedies of the 1930's & '40's for roll-on-the-ground laughing madness. In fact, the old and rarely seen adjective "madcap" describes the shows perfectly.
Edina Monsoon is a self-absorbed slacker who lives high by ripping off her ex-husbands. She and her friend Patsy Stone get into almost as many misadventures as they do bottles of vodka. Saffy, Edina's long-suffering, introverted daughter provides the foil for the madness.
Jennifer Saunders has talent coming out of her ears; not only does she perform pratfalls and other physical comedy without the help of a stand-in, but her non-stop delivery would be funny if were just reading the phone book. As it is, the scripts are works of art, much funnier than Seinfeld, funnier than Monty Python even.
The only problem with these shows is that you can't eat while watching them, because you can't eat while laughing unceasingly.
THEY HAVE OUT DONE THEMSELVES!!!!! This show is one of my favorite shows to watch!!! I am so glad that I can now just sit down and watch the all the episodes over and over! Their humor is great and fresh! There is always somthing new that Patsy and Edina get themselves into. This box set is worth it. Same with series 4! Get them all!!
Loved every one of these! I have been watching AbFab since its beginning and the first three series are just fabulous. I never get tired of watching them and I just love some of the one-liners. It is fabulous, sweetie darlings!
Absolutely Disgusting How anyone can sit there and laugh about drunken schizophrenic chainsmoking nymphomaniacs that have little else in their vocabulary other than the phrase "Absolutely Fabulous, Dahling" is totally beyond me. Several friends asked me to give it a serious chance, so I forced myself to watch the entire video set. BOY am I glad it was a gift, I would have been sorely ticked off if I had had to shell out money for the privilege of watching someone who walks around with an ever present ash that is 3 feet long hanging off of their cigarette, burn their best friends new kitchen to the ground. This is Absolutely Fabulous? I think not! NAUSEATING is my opinion, sorry!
sweetie darling sweetie british humor is the strangest thing. you have to be fairly odd yrself to understand it. i love it! this is one of my favorite uk shows. what's not to love? you've got the best friends eddie and patsy who both adore a little weed and lots of booze and every now and again something harder. you've got the daughter, saffy, who is extremely smart and pretty funny in the way she reacts to her mother and patsy. then there's the rest of the ecclectic family. gran who is rather eccentric, the gay ex husband, the writer who tries to sell screenplays and get close to celebrities by joining cults, and all of saffy's little friends who are kinda weird but cute. this show wasn't nearly on long enough for my taste but i enjoy every minute of it. i've seen them all a hundred times but it only ever gets funnier. if you like british humor, you'll love this show.
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