French Girls

French Girls,

Dawn French's Girls Who Do: Comedy was an interview series shown on BBC Four. In the series, Dawn French interviewed some of the most prolific comedians of the century from Phyllis Diller to Catherine Tate and asked about life, love, family and comedy. The series was shown as 3 episodes featuring clips from French's various interviews with different comedians, however, from December 25 - December 30 in 2006 BBC Four showed six full interviews of 20–30 minutes. They are: (in order of re-broadcast on BBC Four) Whoopi Goldberg, Catherine Tate, Kathy Burke, Julie Walters, Victoria Wood and Joan Rivers. This is one of the last interviews done with the late comedienne, Linda Smith. Each episode ends with a tribute to Linda Smith.

It was followed in 2007 by Dawn French's Boys Who Do Comedy.

Comediennes featured

Catherine Tate

Julie Walters

Whoopi Goldberg

Victoria Wood

Kathy Burke

Joan Rivers

Jennifer Saunders

Linda Smith

Wanda Sykes

Kathy Najimy and Mo Gaffney

Helen Lederer

Denise Coffey

Phyllis Diller

Jessica Stevenson

Ruby Wax

Penny Marshall (only seen in one clip in Episode 1)

Eleanor Bron

Sarah Silverman

Morwenna Banks

Miriam Margolyes

Sheila Hancock

Miss Piggy

Gina Yashere

Rita Rudner

Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins

Margaret Cho

Tracey Ullman

Liza Tarbuck

Sandra Bernhard

Jenny Eclair

Laura Solon

Meera Syal

Jo Brand

Jo Caulfield (Episodes 2-3)

(source:wikipedia)