Its funniest moment is when Taylor asks the group, as a focusing exercise: “How will the women know it’s for women?” effectively making transparent the dominant creed behind our razors, hand soap, even ballpoint pens, of women’s apparent and utter helplessness to make informed, individual decisions.Ĭonceived and performed by Taylor, Aurora Browne (another Second City alum), Meredith MacNeill (of the BBC comedy Man Stroke Woman), and Jennifer Whalen ( This Hour Has 22 Minutes), Baroness von Sketch Show revels in the everyday lives of women. She is instantly slammed by the incredulous veteran: “Of course it’s pink, you idiot!” The skit is Femininity 101 as imbibed through mass consumer culture. The group throws out the usual suggestions: use butterflies, make the bottle slim (“Because women are slim!”) A new employee suggests they make it pink. In one episode, “Women’s Products,” a hard talking exec (played by the Second City veteran comedian Carolyn Taylor), is leading a group of creatives on the marketing of a new product for women. The Web Aesthetic Comes to Cable Television.This New CBC Show Is an Antidote to Reality TV.
(In “Dry Shampoo,” a character literally does this-but with the help of that miracle of hair care products, her hair just gets better for it.) Baroness is a reminder to women that they should leave an effigy of themselves under the bedclothes, drop the house key in the river, and run for their lives.
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Set in (often recognizable) Toronto locations, the show comprises a series of sketches of varying lengths, that send up the tropes of contemporary urban female life: the book club the girl’s night out the locker room etc. But now, bam! For the last six weeks, the Baroness von Sketch Show has arrived like an anthem to the crone-a raucous, offbeat, gorgeous tribute.
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