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    Comedy TV Shows - 1990s 2 Mins Read

    Vicar of Dibley, The

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    Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and A Funeral (1994), Blackadder, Mr Bean) wrote this wonderful sitcom, which cast the generously-proportioned Dawn French as the Reverend Geraldine Granger in a crusade against sexism and snobbery in the (fictional) Oxfordshire village of Dibley – a village not quite ready for a distaff parson.

    “You were expecting a bloke with a beard, a bible and bad breath, you’ve got a babe with a bob cut and a magnificent bosom . . .”

    Geraldine soon became an integral part of local life. Her duties included overseeing regular meetings of the parish council, at which her progressive politics and outsized personality were pitted against the conservative, irascible, and oddball personalities of the other members.

    The topicality of the subject matter aside (the Church of England only permitted the ordination of women in 1993) it was a conventional, cosy British character comedy, redolent of Dad’s Army – and none the worse for it.

    The show mined the bulk of its humour from Geraldine’s good-natured entanglements with her strange congregation.

    Perhaps the stand-out gag from the series was the joke played over each episode’s closing credits: Geraldine told her absurdly literal-minded verger, Alice Tinker (Emma Chambers), a joke, and then had to explain it in enormous detail when Alice inevitably misunderstood the punch line.

    Sadly, Emma Chambers died of a heart attack on 21 February 2018. She was just 53.

    Roger Lloyd-Pack died in 2014 from pancreatic cancer, John Bluthal passed away on 16 November 2018, aged 89, in New South Wales, Australia, and Trevor Peacock died on 8 March 2021, at the age of 89.

    Reverend Geraldine Granger
    Dawn French
    Hugo Horton
    James Fleet
    Jim Trott
    Trevor Peacock
    David Horton
    Gary Waldhorn
    Owen Newitt
    Roger Lloyd-Pack
    Alice Tinker
    Emma Chambers
    Frank Pickle
    John Bluthal
    Letitia Cropley
    Liz Smith

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