The show, which has spent two seasons on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, has gathered an online following through the posting of bite-size observations on the micro-absurdities and macro-neuroses of modern life: Fitbit tyranny, the way moms say hello, product design for women (“A slim bottle because women are slim!”), office book clubs where no one has read the book (twist: The office is a publishing house).Īt home, “Baroness Von Sketch Show” has cleaned up at the Canadian Screen Awards and earned comparisons to Canada’s last big sketch comedy export, the 1990s series “The Kids in the Hall.” One major difference: “Baroness” is created by women (not men who often dress up as women) and almost entirely written and directed by women, too.Ĭomedy, an entertainment zone notoriously dominated by the male point of view, has opened up in the decades since “Kids,” but progress has been fitful. 2, IFC will bring the first 13 episodes of the group’s gently jabbing social satire to American audiences - or at least to those viewers who can’t navigate YouTube. They sat at a boardroom table dotted with coffee cups, hand cream and vitamin pills, batting around their own pitches and fielding others from the show’s writing staff. They looked like really lame band names but were, instead, potential sketch ideas scrawled on a whiteboard in the writers’ room of the comedy series “Baroness Von Sketch Show.” On a hot June day here, the four “baronesses” - the 40-something creators and stars Aurora Browne, Meredith MacNeill, Carolyn Taylor and Jennifer Whalen - were gathered at their downtown production offices inside a nearly deserted office building that’s slated for demolition. TORONTO - “Toe Spreaders.” “Feminist Foot Conference.” “Office Lotto Ticket.”
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