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Fast Forward: Janelle and Chenille
Title:
Fast Forward: Janelle and Chenille
NFSA ID
1327509
Year
1991
This clip from sketch comedy show Fast Forward features the gloriously chaotic 'Janelle’s Beauty Spot' – where Magda Szubanski’s Chenille, of Institute de Beauty and House of Hair Removal fame, peddles perilous treatments in a dead-on send-up of daytime television.
'Janelle’s Beauty Spot', with Marg Downey as Janelle, parodied ’80s morning shows and beauty fads with precision with Szubanski’s Chenille skewering wellness culture and pseudo-expert advice. The clip is a superb example of how Fast Forward used sketch comedy to critique both media formats and the values they promoted.
This segment appeared in series 4, episode 9.
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