How Do Mel and Sue Know Each Other?

The two women met while students at the University of Cambridge and were members of the footlights comedy club.

They made their debut in 1993 with The Naked Lunch, after which they took their show Kittens Go Grrrrr to the Edinburgh Festival. Giedroyc recalls the early partnership: “We got on extremely well.

We did some very lame gigs performing sketches with two guys, and Sue would compete. But because she was a year younger than me we never knew each other well until after college. We both got very shit degrees, and I failed to get into every drama school, so I gave her a ring and said, ‘Do you want to write stuff for Week Ending?”

The pair’s television breakthrough came on the French & Saunders sketch show, where they appeared together in several episodes. Mel and Sue gained widespread popularity in March 1997 when they launched a lunchtime chat show on Channel 4, Light Lunch, where celebrity chefs cooked lunch for the duo’s celebrity guests.

The show returned for a second series in 1998.