Helen Lederer doubts 'Absolutely Fabulous' would be made today “because the world has changed so much" when it comes to what is acceptable in comedy.

Helen Lederer

Helen Lederer

The 66-year-old actress had a recurring role as fashion magazine employee Catriona in Jennifer Saunders’s hit comedy about the PR world and she has now echoed 63-year-old Jennifer’s recent comments that the show's outrageous humour wouldn’t be made in the current climate "because everything is sensitive".

In an interview with the Daily Star newspaper, Helen said: “It would be so much down to Jennifer because the world has changed so much about the style of comedy."

However, she suggests that if anyone is able to “pull it off” in the modern era it would be Jennifer as she’s such a “brilliant writer” and “a lot of people” would still like to see 'Ab Fab' - which was made into a movie in 2016 - air again.

She added: “I think Jennifer is a brilliant writer, so it would be interesting to see how something that was very successful would travel time and be as successful.

“I’m sure she could pull it off if anyone could, but we do live in different times.

"If they do it, we want to be in it- it’s not in our gift but I think a lot of people would be very happy to see another 'Ab Fab'.”

Helen particularly enjoyed some of the comedy’s star turns, with a number of A-listers making brief appearances over the years, including the likes of Kate Moss and Jerry Hall as well as Lulu and Emma Bunton.

She said: "It was wonderful to see Baby Spice (Emma Bunton) and Lulu, and then they arrive with their hairdressers and agents - it was like seeing how the other world lives. It just worked, everyone mucked in.

“It was really nice to see people from different walks of life come together.”

Sharing her doubts that 'Ad Fab' - which began in 1992 - would exist in the same way in today's politically correct world, Jennifer recently said: "I think it has changed comedy like what we used to make. I think we would probably talk ourselves out of most of it now.

“It would be like, ‘We won’t have a good answer so let’s not do that.'

“I think people do talk themselves out of stuff now because everything is sensitive.”

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