Congratulations all,” actor Jonathan Torrens posted on Twitter. “Nothing more baller than leaving before the audience does. The show’s fans flooded social media expressing sadness about its demise Thursday, with many adding they were happy it seemed to be going out on its own terms. Seasons 1-4 are on the CBC Gem streaming service. The foursome delivered about 12 sketches per episode, sometimes making adjustments on the fly and getting creative in order to make a sketch fit within the budget. And then I think some men really felt like they were getting a window into something that they never saw.” “Some of the things that did skew more towards like ‘this is a real female experience’ were I think liberating for women to see their experience portrayed. But essentially, I think people want the same thing: food, shelter, love. “Superficial differences, yeah, of course, they make some difference. “I think the fact that it found an audience with men and women alike really proved the point that we are the same more than we are different,” Whalen said. Memorable moments include the “Red Wine Ladies” who imbibe too much the “Psych-up Salad” sketch in which MacNeill goes to great lengths to stomach a healthy green lunch and another extreme turn from MacNeill in which her hair expands wildly by the day as she blasts it with dry shampoo. We’re all here trying to make a really funny show.'” “In our room, I never felt like gender was the first thing that led. “Usually in writing rooms you’re often a ‘female comedy writer,’ not just a comedy writer, or a ‘female comedy performer.’ Your gender is always attached,” she said. Whalen said they never held back on their ideas over the years - “What’s the sports term? I think we left everything on the floor” - and never had a gender qualifier attached to their work. The Canadian comedy, which also airs on IFC in the U.S., gave irreverent takes on everything from mundane office culture to middle-age life and major social issues involving feminism, identity and gender. And so we just wanted to really make sure that we ended the show on our terms and with respect to our audience who’ve been so amazing and supportive.” It was always really important to us to present the best show that we possibly could. Whalen said ratings had nothing to do with the decision to end the show. The series has won several Canadian Screen Awards and is currently nominated for five more trophies going into next week’s winners’ announcements. “Baroness von Sketch Show” debuted in June 2016 with Whalen, Carolyn Taylor, Meredith MacNeill and Aurora Browne as the writers, stars and executive producers. We’re really excited for everyone to see season 5, we think it’s really great.” “We can end on a high note and go out with the show having the same quality it always did. The hit CBC series "Baroness von Sketch Show" will come to an end after its fifth season this fall. Screen Awards winners for Best Performance, Sketch Comedy are the cast of Baroness von Sketch Show Aurora Browne (left to right), Carolyn Taylor, Jennifer Whalen and Meredith MacNeil, shown posing backstage at the Canadian Screen Awards in Toronto on Sunday, March 11, 2018. “With our sketches, we always like to keep them short and not over stay our welcome, and we just all felt that season 5 was the right time,” Whalen, who is the showrunner for season 5, said Thursday in a phone interview. TORONTO – After five years of satirizing many facets of contemporary culture and women’s experiences - from politics to relationships and even the overuse of dry shampoo - the all-female troupe behind the hit CBC series “Baroness von Sketch Show” has decided to end the series after its fifth season this fall.Ĭo-creator and star Jennifer Whalen says the foursome has joked from the beginning that they would love to do five seasons, and when they embarked on filming season 5 in Toronto last fall, they realized “it just energetically felt like the time.” This article was published (1116 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
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