A-Z Challenge: F - Funny

F is for Funny

I love to laugh. I think it's on a par with an orgasm, but without the wet spot (unless, of course, you've given birth and then you have no pelvic floor and uncontrollable giggling can frequently cause embarrassing wetness). And no-one makes me laugh quite as much as the fantastic, fabulous, fart-makingly funny Dawn French.



For those of you who don’t know her (*gasp*) she is a British comedy Goddess of mammoth proportions. Figuratively and, until recently when she shed over 100lbs in weight, literally.  She’s the star of the award-winning sitcom, Vicar of Dibley, one half of the hilarious (and also award-winning) double-act that is French and Saunders (with her best buddy, Jennifer Saunders, of Absolutely Fabulous fame), and author of two best-selling books to mention just a tiny sample of her accomplishments.

I want to give a shout-out here to her two books. One is a memoir called ‘Hello Fatty’ and the other is a novel called ‘A Tiny Bit Marvellous’. I read her novel first and it made me laugh out loud from the very first page. It is mostly about a mother and her relationship with her teenage daughter (could so relate). Not only was it hilarious, but she also had me cringing and I even shed the odd tear. I highly recommend this.  Here's the book trailer, which is a comedy sketch in itself:


 

After a break to catch up with my book club books, I started her memoir. Oh-my-actual-God! If anything, it's even funnier. I was reading it in my lunch hour at work yesterday and started giggling at one bit and then couldn’t stop. I had an insane laughing fit. I was crying I was laughing so hard. (In fact, I think I experienced some of that embarrassing wetness I talking about earlier!) Work colleagues were looking at me and wondering what the hell was going on. I had to walk away from her book to calm myself down. Her writing has such a strong voice - she writes like she talks. I could imagine her every step of the way. If I could even write a tenth as well, I would be more than happy. I cannot recommend this book highly enough ... unless you have incontinence problems and then I wouldn't advise it.

To finish, I found my most favourite skit which she did with Jennifer Saunders many, many years ago on BBC's Comic Relief. Dawn is explaining to Jennifer all about sex. I call it The Todger Sketch. It is absolutely hilarious, if a teensy bit rude.