Dawn French has said she would like to die “on stage” and be dragged “off to the side”. The Vicar of Dibley actress, 65, was reflecting on her death as part of a new podcast.
Kathy Burke asked her fellow comedian French in Where There’s a Will, There’s a Wake, released on Tuesday, how she would like to die. French said she would “quite like” to die on stage when a sign appears saying “tw*t” on it during the panto Jack and the Beanstalk, which she is starring in alongside Julian Clary.
She said: “Yeah, tw*t to come in and (I) just collapse, sort of Tommy Cooper style right then with a big laugh that goes with it and a round of applause because people think, oh, she’s doing a joke. Then there’d be a bit of an awkward silence and then one of my lovely crew would come off and just drag me off, unceremoniously. Yeah, off to the side.”
