''Big Girl's Blouse'' was an Australian
sketch comedy
Sketch comedy comprises a series of short, amusing scenes or vignettes, called "sketches" or, "skits", commonly between one and ten minutes long, performed by a group of comic actors or comedians. While the form developed and became popular in ...
programme that was broadcast in the mid-1990s on the
Seven Network
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, created by
Gina Riley,
Jane Turner and
Magda Szubanski. Early versions of the trio's ''
Kath & Kim'' characters, Kath, Kim and Sharon, were first featured together in several sketches based around Kim's wedding. There were four one-hour episodes, plus the pilot, which are usually shown as eight half-hour episodes. The phrase "Big Girl's Blouse" is a British English
idiom
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meaning "ineffectual or weak, someone failing to show masculine strength or determination." Many of the sketches from it are still available on YouTube. This was the third sketch show created by Riley, Turner and Szubanski following ''
Fast Forward'' and later ''
Something Stupid''.
Reruns
In Australia, it periodically airs on
The Comedy Channel. In America it occasionally appears on the
Sundance Channel.
DVD release
The show was released in its entirety by
Shock DVD in Australia on 17 October 2003.
References
External links
''Big Girl's Blouse'' at the National Film and Sound Archive*
1994 Australian television series debuts
1995 Australian television series endings
Australian television sketch shows
Seven Network original programming
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