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Easter
tends to play second fiddle to Christmas in the season celebration sweepstakes,
but in 1999 we were treated to Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders performing
some of their funniest and most astute parodies.
Read on to relive the springtime shenanigans,
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The
nineties crime drama Silent Witness made it into the repertoire,
becoming Witless Silence. Jennifer Saunders took the part
of the forensic pathologist made famous by Amanda Burton and performed
with understated relish. All the ingredients were there: the despondent
shrug, that ponderous stare and, since Burton is from the Emerald
Isle, the obligatory, "Har are yer?" But despite her skill in
the morgue, our heroine can never quite manage to get her relationships
together, despite those smugly arched eyebrows.
While
in the mood for bringing down giants it makes sense to go the whole hog,
and next in French & Saunders' sights is the mighty Boyzone.
A short, sharp shockingly funny Mickey-take out of the boy band that grew
up. Perfect in their roles were Dawn as down-at-heel Steven
Gately and Jennifer as frontman Ronan Keating. Together,
much as in the real thing, these two singers make up the five-piece band.
Alanis
Morrisette - a respected artist whose music is memorable and poignant.
An ideal candidate, then, for treatment by Jennifer Saunders, although
this time as Aimless Morris Minor singing Bless You (formerly
Thank You). The said treatment is to remedy over-dependence on
a thesaurus.
Our
spring concert closes with Dawn French (herself born in Holyhead,
North Wales) masquerading as Catatonia-cum-Catantonic frontwoman
and First Lady of Welsh pop, Cerys Mathews. Not only back to her
roots but back to the local pub belting out Cymru Pride in a smoke filled,
disco-lit bar. An altogether different kind of Welsh Assembly.
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