Dawn French's Girls Who Do: Comedy Episode #1.1 (Season 1, Episode 1)
TV Episode | 29 min | Documentary, Comedy

Dawn French's Girls Who Do: Comedy

Episode #1.1 (Season 1, Episode 1)

TV Episode | 29 min | Documentary, Comedy

Dawn French, interviews her favorite comediennes and asks about their upbringing, family life, entree into comedy, routines for generating material, whether they hang out with other funny people, comedic influences, professional jealousy ...See moreDawn French, interviews her favorite comediennes and asks about their upbringing, family life, entree into comedy, routines for generating material, whether they hang out with other funny people, comedic influences, professional jealousy and how being funny affects one's love life. The series began as three episodes comprised of clips from 36 interviewees. The series returned four months later with six full-length interviews of Whoopi Goldberg, Catherine Tate, Kathy Burke, Julie Walters, Victoria Wood and Joan Rivers. Written by Samb Hicks See less

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40 cast members

Name	Known for
Dawn French Self Self See fewer	French and Saunders (1987)
Catherine Tate Self Self See fewer	The Catherine Tate Show (2004)
Julie Walters Self Self See fewer	Billy Elliot (2000)
Victoria Wood Self Self See fewer	Housewife, 49 (2005)
Sandra Bernhard Self (as Sandra Bernhardt) Self (as Sandra Bernhardt) See fewer	The King of Comedy (1982)
Kathy Burke Self Self See fewer	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
Eleanor Bron Self Self See fewer	A Little Princess (1995)
Laura Solon Self Self See fewer	Back to Life (2019)
Meera Syal Self Self See fewer	Yesterday (III) (2019)
Jo Brand Self Self See fewer	Getting On (2009)
Phyllis Diller Self Self See fewer	A Bug's Life (1998)
Jenny Eclair Self Self See fewer	Skins (2007)
Miriam Margolyes Self Self See fewer	The Age of Innocence (1993)
Jessica Hynes Self (as Jessica Stevenson) Self (as Jessica Stevenson) See fewer	Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Linda Smith Self Self See fewer	The Mark Steel Lectures (2003)
Tracey Ullman Self Self See fewer	The Tracey Ullman Show (1987)
Whoopi Goldberg Self Self See fewer	Ghost (1990)
Eric Jacobson Miss Piggy (as Miss Piggy) Miss Piggy (as Miss Piggy) See fewer	The Muppets (2011)
Rita Rudner Self Self See fewer	Peter's Friends (1992)
Joan Rivers Self Self See fewer	Spaceballs (1987)
Sarah Silverman Self Self See fewer	Wreck-It Ralph (2012)
Ruby Wax Self Self See fewer	Girls on Top (1985)
Denise Coffey Self Self See fewer	Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)
Kathy Najimy Self (as Kathy and Mo) Self (as Kathy and Mo) See fewer	Hocus Pocus (1993)
Mo Gaffney Self (as Kathy and Mo) Self (as Kathy and Mo) See fewer	Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)
Penny Marshall Self Self See fewer	Laverne & Shirley (1976)
Margaret Cho Self Self See fewer	Margaret Cho: PsyCHO (2015)
Wanda Sykes Self Self See fewer	Monster-in-Law (2005)
Jennifer Saunders Self Self See fewer	Absolutely Fabulous (1992)
Liza Tarbuck Self Self See fewer	The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011)
Mel Giedroyc Self (as Mel and Sue) Self (as Mel and Sue) See fewer	Spies of Warsaw (2013)
Sue Perkins Self (as Mel and Sue) Self (as Mel and Sue) See fewer	Last Christmas (2019)
Gina Yashere Self Self See fewer	Bob Hearts Abishola (2019)
Helen Lederer Self Self See fewer	Happy Families (1985)
Sheila Hancock Self Self See fewer	The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)
Morwenna Banks Self Self See fewer	Damned (2016)
Peter Brough Self / Archie Andrews (archive footage) (uncredited) Self / Archie Andrews (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Cavalcade of Variety (1940)
Joyce Grenfell Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Stage Fright (1950)
Irene Handl Lady drinking tea (archive footage) (uncredited) Lady drinking tea (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	The Italian Job (1969)
Beryl Reid Monica (archive footage) (uncredited) Monica (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	The Killing of Sister George (1968)