Saunders attended a Central School of Speech and Drama in London. There she met Dawn French, & them performed together when graduation, working a festival, cabaret, and have-higher circuits. It were the central a share of the alternative comedy scene in the early 1980s. It was as much as this instance that each so worked by owning comedy company The Comic Strip, where it performed by using several of the comedians world health organization were to be their generation's leading comedy performing artist. She & French so created French & Saunders, a popular sketch comedy show for the BBC.

Saunders appeared when a lot 5 Fuddle sisters around Happy Families, the sise episode BBC situation comedy written by Ben Elton and starring her husband Adrian Edmonson as her brother Guy Fuddle, who needs to reunite a personal for the sake of their death grannie, besides played by Saunders. Dawn French, Stephen Fry, and Chris Langham also appeared.

Jennifer Saunders come to international attention for her sitcom Absolutely Fabulous, which she created, co-wrote, and where she starred when irresponsible booze-fox Edina Monsoon.

She has as well appeared on the US television shows Roseanne and Friends, and in the Spice Girls' movie Spice World.

Around 2003, she was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy. Within 2004 she played the Fairy Godmother around Shrek 2; in the film she performed the song "Holding Out for a Hero" (among others).

Jennifer Saunders is married to fellow comedian Adrian Edmondson, with whom she has leash girl. the character of Edina Monsoon was according to a character known as Eddie Monsoon created by married man Adrian Edmondson for The Comic Strip. Eddie Monsoon was the failing comedian featuring inside the documentary film style film just about his failing career. It was known as "Eddie Monsoon - A Life?".

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