Yes, Jennifer Saunders is in business. Jennifer and her comedy partner, Dawn French, teamed up to make a special video called ‘The Paper Chase’. What is so special about this video you may ask. Well first of all it’s simply not affordable and secondly, which is closely related to the first, it's a company training video. If the question is: how can you motivate your staff? The answer must be: By hiring ‘French & Saunders’ of coarse. Jennifer and Dawn are to motivate the staff into cutting back on their paperwork. The message is that every staff-member should have a 'clear desk' day which is done in four ways: Act on it, pass it on, file it, bin it. As is to be expected when you cast such big names, the critics found this video one of the best of all training films ever made. It is supposed to be ‘one of the most frighteningly hard-hitting of training films in the history of the genre’. And that says it about all, don’t you think.

Jennifer plays a woman called Joanna who is the newly arrived Department Head.


Plot

Delia played by Dawn French is reformed by Joanna who has just arrived in the company and wants to make things better. She tries to teach the paperholic Delia that all paper should be categorised as either junk, information, action or file. They then start to apply this in Delia’s disordered office.

The video is available for the mere £895. You can also hire it for £169. There is also a Cdi available which is even more expensive £995. If you want to hire it £195 will do. Video Arts has produced this film and can be found by subject: Time management

The movie was written by Antony Jay and directed by Charles Chrichton.