A beautifully presented collection of short sketches where an everyday recognisable situation cascades through new levels of absurdity and visual humour. Anyone who was alternately delighted and/or confused by Smack the Pony can instantly get where Judith and Olivia are coming from. You don't even have to understand too much French: a basic level of French comprehension is useful as some of the sketches depend on the dialogue and the spoken punchline. But most of the time, the visuals and the unspoken humour and the body language are pretty much all you need. Over the lifetime of the show, some sketches do visibly flag, some seem to be rehashings of older jokes and one or two look as if they were borrowed wholesale from Smack The Pony. But this is genuinely good, audaciously funny, stuff where the girls take it in turn to be the straight guy and the funny one.
A word on NSFW: Beware. There will be occasional nudity. (This is usually played for laughs and not titillation). Other sketches are clearly about sex and sexual politics and should not be played near anyone who speaks French and could get offended. Some of the jokes can be dirty even though everyone keeps their clothes on.
But with that caveat, 80% of this could be shown on TV before the watershed. You just don't know when the next bit of random nakedness is going to show up.
I'd recommend this. French sketch comedy at its finest, like a series of short live-action cartoons.
Series Toujours, l'audace
A beautifully presented collection of short sketches where an everyday recognisable situation cascades through new levels of absurdity and visual humour. Anyone who was alternately delighted and/or confused by Smack the Pony can instantly get where Judith and Olivia are coming from. You don't even have to understand too much French: a basic level of French comprehension is useful as some of the sketches depend on the dialogue and the spoken punchline. But most of the time, the visuals and the unspoken humour and the body language are pretty much all you need. Over the lifetime of the show, some sketches do visibly flag, some seem to be rehashings of older jokes and one or two look as if they were borrowed wholesale from Smack The Pony. But this is genuinely good, audaciously funny, stuff where the girls take it in turn to be the straight guy and the funny one.
A word on NSFW: Beware. There will be occasional nudity. (This is usually played for laughs and not titillation). Other sketches are clearly about sex and sexual politics and should not be played near anyone who speaks French and could get offended. Some of the jokes can be dirty even though everyone keeps their clothes on.
But with that caveat, 80% of this could be shown on TV before the watershed. You just don't know when the next bit of random nakedness is going to show up.
I'd recommend this. French sketch comedy at its finest, like a series of short live-action cartoons.