Episode 145: Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)

F*ck-a-doodle-doo. As spring turns to summer, so the nuptial season is upon us, and we’re celebrating with the breakthrough 1994 Brit romcom classic Four Weddings and a Funeral.

Charmingly dishevelled serial monogamist bachelor Charles (Hugh Grant) meets mysterious and beautiful American Carrie (Andie McDowell) at a wedding for which he is the best man. Over the course of the titular series of ceremonies, their romance blossoms and bumbles, while Charles’ eccentric friendship group trade creatively expletive-laced witticisms. 

After a successful career in TV comedy, with the influential Not the Nine O’Clock News leading to sitcom classics Blackadder and Mr Bean, Richard Curtis scored his first cinema hit with a film that launched an avalanche of imitators, and arguably changed the face of British cinema for decades to come. David Biggins joins the gang to see who gets to catch the bouquet, and who’ll end the night throwing up in their rented loafers.