French & Saunders on poking fun at The Repair Shop
Jennifer Saunders said of yesterday’s sketch: “Well, the weird thing is, I watch The Repair Shop constantly.
“I watch it and always think it’s very rare that programmes nowadays become universal, because there’s so much streaming and people don’t always watch the same thing at the same time, but a bit like Bake Off did, The Repair Shop has become a universally watched show that people love and love it so passionately.
“And so I watch it, my whole family watches it, I know Dawn watches it, everyone I know knows about The Repair Shop. We’d literally in our heads already written it without even knowing we were going to do it.”
French added: “I think it’s a little bit of kismet, because we were talking about The Repair Shop and in the most politest and respectful of tones we would always say ‘begging for it’.
“Which means we belong in that somehow, we belong in a parody of that.”
