Comments | rushysgirl: Satirical sketch gold - 'Uptown Downstairs Abbey' XD

rushysgirl

Satirical sketch gold - 'Uptown Downstairs Abbey' XD

May 30, 2011 18:14

Was searching on YouTube for some of the old French & Saunders gems and came across this hilarious piece of sketch comedy from the BBC's Comic Relief from earlier this year.

It's a parody of the period series that deal with the turn-of-the-century upstairs/downstairs dynamic - a la Upstairs, Downstairs from the early 70s and more recently, Downton ( Read more... )

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aussiemozzie June 2 2011, 02:16:07 UTC

You have NO idea how much that just made my day. I was laughing so much! Thank you for sharing! I had gone back to watch older versions of their red nose day things and I was wondering what they did for this year. Fantastic, darling! :)

:D

rushysgirl June 2 2011, 08:03:39 UTC

No worries :D

I've been rediscovering all their old stuff and boy, YouTube is such a French & Saunders goldmine! I'm so glad they haven't been deleting them, it's such a pain in the ass when all that gold disappears.