These three women who wrote and produced this show deserve more credit for making such a fantastic, ahead of its time comedy show. It is far more watchable than old Fast Forward clips Big Girl's Blouse is a classic. I know they all made a big hit with Kath and Kim but this show is brilliant. Deserves to be better known outside Australia.
No it's not, they wouldn't be allowed to air it today as someone would take "A Fence". Not years ahead of its at all. About par for the course from the era it 1st aired
@@bpdobson8660 you could 100% air this today. They get the joke out of situations gay people can relate to not gay people themselves. That’s not offensive and thats the difference between good writing and bad. Par for the course would be to have gay olympics with sprinters running with limp wrists or whatever which is why this is so ‘ahead of its time’ and truthfully ahead of our time too
@@boobiedu You try and get this on air today, won't happen. It's of it's time, end of. BBC are banning Fawlty Towers because of the german episode. This has no chance
@@bpdobson8660 i’ll have a word with my cousin at ITV see what he can do - also FT was taken down because it straight up used slurs I don’t see how that’s even remotely similar. No one (except contrarians like yourself) would be offended by this today because it’s not offensive, people got offended at FT because spoiler alert racism is offensive - really isn’t that deep
@@xaj1543 Nope, they are making fun of some of the lighter sides of being gay, for example, the tiny minority who take offence at everything. But if you can't see beyond that then you might need to get out more and expand your social circle. I'm gay and the hotel room scene was brilliant. Only a few months ago I experienced something similar with my partner.
"what would you do if someone came up to you and called you an ugly dog?" "OHH I WOULD JUST KISS EM" hahahahhahahah this scene actually stands so well even 20 years later
OMG how did I not know they all did this show before Kath & Kim? This is hilarious. As a "lady gay" I completely relate to booking the hotel room and beds from my younger years. Fantastic.
Foreshadowing. The Taking Offencing event is brilliant. I bet even they didn't think things would get as absurd as they are today. Still, there was no Twitter in those days.
That wouldn‘t have changed a thing. They wouldn‘t have made fun of it if nobody knew what they were talking about. All this stuff was alteady floating around, especially in the “community“. Everybody I knew thought it was ridiculous. But the woke were in in for the long haul, they kept teaching it in colleges and managed to mainstream it. At this point, they‘re having the last laugh.
not really. if anything your comment is just a look into your mind and short sighted view. you probably watch to much "cancel culture" stuff no doubt and think its a real reflection of today. people like that have always existed.. thats why this show even decades ago knew how to parody that "stereotype" of a person.
I remember watching Gina, Jane, and Madga in this series (Big Girls Blouse) when it came out - no pun intended - and it was far ahead of it's time. This style of comedy stands the test of time still to this day. If you like this, watch some Patty Stacker next...
@@xaj1543 sorry maybe I should referrenced in Harvard but, no couldnt be bothered looking it up its a youtube comment section. Don't really care how to spell her name as I don't really care about what she, sorry they or you say.
loved the fencing gag but if they did it nowdays the rightwing supremacists would adopt it and add it to the 100000 other "you're so offended easily xddd" retorts
dude im very far left leaning and Its pretty mild. Comedy isn't really at risk just people unwilling to take accountability if their form of comedy relies on tarnishing a groups integrity. It should be easy to tell if the comedian is IN on gallows humor too otherwise its just distasteful much like 100's of those comedians making jokes about their wife being crazy and etc it just gets old fast and they shouldn't have a platform. Though its worth noting the silly humor of this video is akin to monty python which holds up very well to this day (absolutely recommend holy grail and life of brian)
@@Minecraftxpo well I don't know what to make of your comment, really. I mean the left sought to censor Fawlty Towers not too long ago. I was agog, because it wasn't because of the treatment of Manuel, as I suspected, but because of the "don't mention the war" skit. I'd thought belittling the nazis was OK. The far/populist right will spout vitriol as they do; but the left are concerned with morals, values and hearts and minds - and that makes writers afraid if negotiating the minefield. As Orwell wrote, if you set up too many rules for literature/the arts, writers will be afraid to think because one safe thought could lead to another that is frowned upon.
It’s Magda Szubanski. Herself an out, proud and articulate lesbian. She’d probably “take offence” at the implicit suggestion those notions are somehow unusual or fundamentally incompatible...”. I meant none. Lol. She is also an Australian comedy icon. All three of them are.
@@Magpie_Mark92 yeah you are probably right...they wouldn't dare air it even though it shines light on struggles of the gay community ...even still..but I think the Taking Offense skit might be just a little too close to the bone for those being offended at everything at the moment..sad days
Um it is in Australia, on demand. Been so for donkeys years. Plus late night on one of the Channel 10 subsidiaries. Plus Big Girls Blouse is still shown on loops in gay bars here. ( Instead of sports!) We're still considered a backward country by Europe, Asia and North America but at least we can laugh at ourselves.
spinozacelt You’re being sarcastic right? Do people think the gays got invented last year? This was a reality even back then, that’s what the joke is.... just not in Olympics form.
@@lizziebkennedy7505 lol. One thing I can do is appreciate the irony of people manufacturing a false sense of outrage over how people today would hate a sketch about manufacturing a false sense of outrage.
Love, Love Love. These Ladies are Australian Royalty. They have NO equal, except perhaps Cate Blanchett, Toni Colette and Kylie and Rachel Griffiths. I could go on ... have you seen 'Little Miss Sunshine' ?? Classic Auzzie Cult. Priscilla Queen of the Desert? Brilliant
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These three women who wrote and produced this show deserve more credit for making such a fantastic, ahead of its time comedy show. It is far more watchable than old Fast Forward clips Big Girl's Blouse is a classic. I know they all made a big hit with Kath and Kim but this show is brilliant. Deserves to be better known outside Australia.
If only the subtitles were enabled, they would be…
I agree!
The woke non sense began in the Frankfurt School in Germany in the 40s but only became hideously mainstream around 2016.
Fucking YEARS ahead of it's time.
We'll have to redact the 'F' word and then the above post will be approved and reposted as such.
No it's not, they wouldn't be allowed to air it today as someone would take "A Fence". Not years ahead of its at all. About par for the course from the era it 1st aired
@@bpdobson8660 you could 100% air this today. They get the joke out of situations gay people can relate to not gay people themselves. That’s not offensive and thats the difference between good writing and bad. Par for the course would be to have gay olympics with sprinters running with limp wrists or whatever which is why this is so ‘ahead of its time’ and truthfully ahead of our time too
@@boobiedu You try and get this on air today, won't happen. It's of it's time, end of. BBC are banning Fawlty Towers because of the german episode. This has no chance
@@bpdobson8660 i’ll have a word with my cousin at ITV see what he can do - also FT was taken down because it straight up used slurs I don’t see how that’s even remotely similar. No one (except contrarians like yourself) would be offended by this today because it’s not offensive, people got offended at FT because spoiler alert racism is offensive - really isn’t that deep
This was ahead of its time because it was made for gay people and not making fun of them
What! Of course they are making
fun of them. But I love it!
@@xaj1543 it was made in a time when the “community“ could still make fun of itself. But those days are gone now
Haha, you don't think it was making fun of them.
@@xaj1543 Nope, they are making fun of some of the lighter sides of being gay, for example, the tiny minority who take offence at everything. But if you can't see beyond that then you might need to get out more and expand your social circle. I'm gay and the hotel room scene was brilliant. Only a few months ago I experienced something similar with my partner.
@@xaj1543 It's punching up. That's straight ppl who don't even recognise what the sketch is alluding to.
Oh god the fencing gag has to be the greatest gag in the history of comedy
Never knew it would be a prediction
@@JPond-wi9wv no one would react like that to "did you have a nice day" unless it was in the context of a guy telling a woman to smile more
The irony coming from Magda sczcheuoyehbanski too is hilarious
@@alexjones7043 she was acting her game back in the day LOL.
Agreed
"what would you do if someone came up to you and called you an ugly dog?"
"OHH I WOULD JUST KISS EM"
hahahahhahahah this scene actually stands so well even 20 years later
But actually cries and pushes cancel culture on people who have said far less than that about her...
@windingvines1 cry about it
@@windingvines1, she was terrible with what she said.
This clip is almost 30 years old and it’s aged like fine wine 🍷
Fantastic booking the hotel room had me in tears
Christopher Peden it’s so funny
OMG how did I not know they all did this show before Kath & Kim? This is hilarious.
As a "lady gay" I completely relate to booking the hotel room and beds from my younger years. Fantastic.
This scene is so so clever and so well acted and produced. I love it
Trapped in the closet scene. The final look of dread and frustration hillarious. lmao!!!!!!!!!!
Australian comedy in the 90s was so good and these ladies were genius
Totally - we used to have a great sense of humour once....ONCE! Before we all got "offered" over everything.
Way ahead of its time.
Honestly yes!
Brit here, first time I've heard of this show and I'm in stitches 😂 The natural acting is class.
I cannot believe how accurate the taking offense part was. Unbelievable. That's eerie.
this is because things haven't actually changed much at all since then.
We never saw this in NZ to my knowledge. I am surprised because I know them all from other shows we did see. This is a "hidden gem" to me.
Mate!! That Taking Offence one - theres a lot more competition out there today than back then. Its a tougher competition these days !
"Oh I'll just kiss'em!" Perfect punch line to end on.😂
"Oh, I'd just kiss him." 😭😂😭 That Taking Offensing skit had it all!
As a gay and a massive fan of kath and kim this gives me life 😂😂♥️
SNL with Thousands of hours of content can't relate this much
Agreed
2021 and just watched this for the first time, bloody brilliant! 👀👏👏👏
REMAKE REMAKE!!! :D
I remember this from the 90s; Aussie comedy was ahead of its time and Jane, Gina, and Marta were peerless!
relevant in 2019. that is all.
relevant in 2021. that is all.
Sharon looks great here
Foreshadowing. The Taking Offencing event is brilliant. I bet even they didn't think things would get as absurd as they are today. Still, there was no Twitter in those days.
That wouldn‘t have changed a thing. They wouldn‘t have made fun of it if nobody knew what they were talking about. All this stuff was alteady floating around, especially in the “community“. Everybody I knew thought it was ridiculous. But the woke were in in for the long haul, they kept teaching it in colleges and managed to mainstream it. At this point, they‘re having the last laugh.
not really. if anything your comment is just a look into your mind and short sighted view. you probably watch to much "cancel culture" stuff no doubt and think its a real reflection of today.
people like that have always existed.. thats why this show even decades ago knew how to parody that "stereotype" of a person.
hands free pole vault... hahahahaha
I remember watching Gina, Jane, and Madga in this series (Big Girls Blouse) when it came out - no pun intended - and it was far ahead of it's time.
This style of comedy stands the test of time still to this day. If you like this, watch some Patty Stacker next...
Patty Stacker is just as good, if not better than the taking offence skit
Awesome. Closet escape. Fencing. Too cool. Thanks for sharing
This is hilarious!!! Especially the offencing. If you’re offended by this YOU are the the parody 😂
XD The Offencing, tho! Brilliant! OMG
That was truly fantastic.
What an amazing trio these ladies are. Just so sad it’s taken so long for me to discover them. ❤.
Look at me Look at me 😂.
This is brilliant.
The offense part is exactly how it is today.
These three are just comedy gold.
So magna savanski is taking the absolute piss out of her future self.
Magda Szubanski, couldn’t you
look that up before posting?
It wasn’t her future self, it
was her self at the time also.
Maybe you should give this
posting caper away.
@@xaj1543 sorry maybe I should referrenced in Harvard but, no couldnt be bothered looking it up its a youtube comment section. Don't really care how to spell her name as I don't really care about what she, sorry they or you say.
@@frankbob6664 I suspect that xaj twit is easily offended lol
@@xaj1543 too bad fast forward isn't still around, you would be a shoe in for the offence scene.
The taking offence bit is spot on
Back when the social science departments of Australia hadn't yet got a grip of the levers of power, they were still being mocked by their graduates.
OMG the fencing scene is perfect! Perfect comedy.
I’d love to see the bloopers on the fencing 🤣😂🤣😂 that must have taken ages to get out without laughing 😂 😂
Magda looks so young.
This is genius!! The original Kath and Kim
"what would you do now if somebody came up and called you a ugly dog"
that was so random i love it 😂
well, since she said she wants to rest from taking offense, it was a reasonable question i think.
Who posted this? They deserve a Nobel Prize for Common Sense.
This turned out to be a great documentary!
My GOD, the "taking offence" scene should be shown in uni classrooms worldwide today..
I am pretty sure they would take offence at that 😯🤔😡 😂😂😂
The Offensing part *REALLY* needs to be shown to baby boomers. No one loses their shit more easily than boomers.
I work for an NGO that employs about 100 people. Easily 95% of them are like that character. They're so touchy I'm terrified to say anything at all.
@@Booyaka9000 amen.
And how would it be explained ? What is the lesson ?
Fencing Magda is freaking magic
OMFG that offensive gag must be where they got the idea for Twitter
Fucking A. Who woulda thunk? I can't believe I missed this one. Please show more.
1:33 Might go down as the most timeless comedy sketch in history after Abbott and Costello
Watching in 2021, who would have thought we would have gone so far backwards under the guise of progression.
This was a brilliant show, watched it regularly.
Men's hands free pole vault lol 😁
loved the fencing gag but if they did it nowdays the rightwing supremacists would adopt it and add it to the 100000 other "you're so offended easily xddd" retorts
That is true; but I doubt the left of today would let this skit pass. Comedy is treacherous territory nowadays.
dude im very far left leaning and Its pretty mild. Comedy isn't really at risk just people unwilling to take accountability if their form of comedy relies on tarnishing a groups integrity. It should be easy to tell if the comedian is IN on gallows humor too otherwise its just distasteful much like 100's of those comedians making jokes about their wife being crazy and etc it just gets old fast and they shouldn't have a platform.
Though its worth noting the silly humor of this video is akin to monty python which holds up very well to this day (absolutely recommend holy grail and life of brian)
@@Minecraftxpo well I don't know what to make of your comment, really. I mean the left sought to censor Fawlty Towers not too long ago. I was agog, because it wasn't because of the treatment of Manuel, as I suspected, but because of the "don't mention the war" skit. I'd thought belittling the nazis was OK. The far/populist right will spout vitriol as they do; but the left are concerned with morals, values and hearts and minds - and that makes writers afraid if negotiating the minefield. As Orwell wrote, if you set up too many rules for literature/the arts, writers will be afraid to think because one safe thought could lead to another that is frowned upon.
Is that the wife from Babe? Mrs. Hoggett!
Yes.
It’s Magda Szubanski. Herself an out, proud and articulate lesbian. She’d probably “take offence” at the implicit suggestion those notions are somehow unusual or fundamentally incompatible...”. I meant none. Lol. She is also an Australian comedy icon. All three of them are.
Omg Look how young and cute Magda is 😘🙋🏼♀️🤩
It's all coming true!
Imagine this being aired now
It needs to be aired now.
@@cakeofthepan2233 the tv station would get sued probably
@@Magpie_Mark92 yeah you are probably right...they wouldn't dare air it even though it shines light on struggles of the gay community ...even still..but I think the Taking Offense skit might be just a little too close to the bone for those being offended at everything at the moment..sad days
Um it is in Australia, on demand.
Been so for donkeys years. Plus late night on one of the Channel 10 subsidiaries. Plus Big Girls Blouse is still shown on loops in gay bars here. ( Instead of sports!)
We're still considered a backward country by Europe, Asia and North America but at least we can laugh at ourselves.
Good luck with that. 😂
that fencing part particularly is becoming the new reality :/
Magda took her time coming -out
We all knew, darl
now its more relevant than ever
1:46 I feel like it's tumblr all over again
eons ahead of its time.Unfortunately we now live surrounded by the madness satirised here.Long live Laughter!!
spinozacelt You’re being sarcastic right? Do people think the gays got invented last year? This was a reality even back then, that’s what the joke is.... just not in Olympics form.
shit yourself
fuck, this was aimed at spinozacelt, not you deathnotebb
It’s the Kath and Kim ladies! Excellent stuff!!
why am I discovering this series just now
The beginning was old Atlanta Fulton County Stadium 1966-1997.
Fencing has improved a lot since then
Omgod I wish we still had this comedy today!
Can you imagine making this show
today? It wouldn’t happen because
the world has lost its sense of humour.
Ok grandpa
@Ronald Vincent Oh no, not the M word! Whatever shall I do lol
@@bwaybabyrose You are a millennial. you CBF to do anything.
@@lizziebkennedy7505 lol. One thing I can do is appreciate the irony of people manufacturing a false sense of outrage over how people today would hate a sketch about manufacturing a false sense of outrage.
By watching the 2024 Olympics opening today, I think this becomes real~~~🙈
What's a great prediction~😆👍👍👍
Prescience level of accuracy on culture 26 years later
the fencing clip is perfection. Sums up today soo well.
old magda would know all about 'offense'... funny stuff.
Genius is timeless.
How relevant is this NOW!!?
Love, Love Love. These Ladies are Australian Royalty. They have NO equal, except perhaps Cate Blanchett, Toni Colette and Kylie and Rachel Griffiths. I could go on ... have you seen 'Little Miss Sunshine' ?? Classic Auzzie Cult. Priscilla Queen of the Desert? Brilliant
The 100m mince lol. I miss the PC free society of the 20th century.
I had no idea how much I needed this. 😅😂
I’ve just come across this sketch from 1995. It’s way before it’s time. I’m surprised it hasn’t been taken down yet for causing offence
What offence? I can't think of anyone this would offend except right wing snowflakes.
In fact, it would've been more likely to be boycotted by homophobes
@@bleu2680 yea idk why people think gay people would care about this being aired, they are making non-offensive jokes lol
The world needs to see this.
24 years later and that's still me lmao
I remember watching this stuff as a kid and thinking it was lame. Now I think its genius. Shame the last sketch came true.
Really miss this show along with Fast Forward and Paul Hogan when the country had a sense of humour
Can you imagine that being shown today it shows you how far we have gone backwards
Wow, where was this all my life? Australia does gay better than the USA.
Plot twist: The fencer is actually gay haha
Brilliant
Man I haven't seen this in years. Shame it never got a longer run like it should have.
This is so ff ing great.
CRYING WITH LAUGHTER
You get more than bloody gold medal for taking offense these days.
Omg its Katherine, Kim and Sharon 😂😂😂❤❤❤
Is this a documentary?
Fencing actually derives its name from defence not offence. But still cool. Weird to watch when Magda has since come out.
More prophecy.
So brilliant !
My woke cousin asked me how they got away with making this 😂
This is GLORIOUS!
Shame people get so offended now a days in this PC society..
Used to be comedy. Now it’s hell. I blame the academic left.
Their damn human rights agenda.
Yep. Making jokes is now a capital offense.
@@lizziebkennedy7505 LOL. Very good satire.
😁👍Never heard of them. Thanks!