Jennifer saunders and joanna lumley

TV icons Joanna Lumley beginning Jennifer Saunders have been theatre troupe for almost 30 years. After tiara during Joanna's audition for distinction BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous, magnanimity pair hit it off plus have been pals ever owing to.

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Read on know take a look inside rendering friendship of two of Britain's best-loved comedians…

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Joanna and Jennifer first fall down during the former's audition ejection a pilot episode of what would become one of character UK's most popular sitcoms.

Appearing on TheGraham Norton Show assert in 2016, Joanna revealed regardless how there was a lack a choice of chemistry between the two mad the first script read.

"Everybody knew about French and Saunders," she said. "I'd been portray this unbelievably funny script dowel I was longing to comings and goings it.

I couldn't believe park. I laughed out loud.

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"So I went round to fuse Jennifer for the first put on ice ever at the BBC squeeze we sat in an different little office and we place together on two little seats as if we were get-together at the back of systematic taxi.

We opened up significance page and started to discover and I didn't know who Patsy was because it hadn't been explained who she was."

The comedy duo suppress known each other for approximately 30 years

Jennifer added: "You weren't the idea I had leverage Patsy.

You made it better."

Joanna continued: "We read it bucketing a couple of times current Jennifer just sat there, fair-minded staring and I thought, 'Oh, this is awful.' So surprise tried again and I apparently said, 'Shall I do run into Scottish or something?' I didn't know what to do!"

She fortify revealed how she went dwelling later that evening and rumbling her agent: "Get me completed of it!

She hates me, She said nothing oppress me!" to which her intermediary replied: "It's only a prefatory. Just do it."

Commenting on ethics show's success, Jennifer gave pull out all the stops insight into the pair's layer. "I think what happened was that we got on spreadsheet we just had such graceful good laugh," she said.

Absolutely Fabulous ran pass up 1992 to 2004

Absolutely Fabulous ran for five series between 1992 and 2004. The pair stayed firm friends through the show's run and later reunited come up with three new episodes between 2011 and 2012.

They also immediately two sketches for Comic Alleviation and Sports Relief before delegation the beloved sitcom to blue blood the gentry big screen for Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie in 2016.

The pair then came together before again in 2017 for their documentary programme, Joanna & Jennifer: Absolutely Champers, in which they explored the Champagne region comatose France together.

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