Absolutely Fabulous Edina's comparatively mild self-destructive behaviour. Despite being a middle-aged, twice-divorced career woman, Edina is reliant upon the support of her daughter Saffron (Julia Sawalha), a secondary school pupil (and later university student) whose constant care of her mother has left her a bitter cynic. The series also stars June Whitfield as Edina's sarcastic and thieving mother, and Jane Horrocks as Edina's brainless personal assistant. In 2000, the show was ranked number 17 on the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes by the British Film Institute. "Absolutely Fabulous" returned for three special episodes which were originally aired on 25 December 2011, 1
Comedy of manners "Excellent Women", Douglas Carter Beane's "As Bees in Honey Drown", "The Country Club", "The Little Dog Laughed", "You Rang, M'Lord?" by David Croft and Jimmy Perry, and the Jeeves and Wooster series by P. G. Wodehouse. The television program "Absolutely Fabulous" is another contemporary example of the comedy of manners. Comedy of manners The comedy of manners is a form of comedy that satirizes the manners and affectations of contemporary society and questions societal standards. Social class stereotypes are often represented through stock characters such as the "miles gloriosus" ("boastful soldier") in ancient Greek comedy or the fop and rake