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Funny GIRLS

Dawn French 62, Jennifer Saunders, 61

Awesome alone (including Dawn’s Vicar of Dibley and Jen’s Absolutely Fabulous), they’re adored together.

MEMORABLE MOMENT Gone With The Wind spoof, with Jennifer as Scarlett O’Hara and Dawn as Mammy, accent more Belfast than Southern Belle.

Meera Syal, 58

She says ‘making people laugh is addictive’ so shows such as Goodness Gracious Me, Citizen Khan and The Kumars At No 42 must have fed her habit.

MEMORABLE MOMENT The Goodness Gracious Me Special where drunk locals in India go out for ‘an English’ and order 12 bread rolls and 24 plates of chips.

Diane Morgan, 44

As Philomena in she made the observation, ‘Charles Darwin was one of theis the mum at the school gates you need to be friends with.

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