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Brenda Blethyn is a force of nature, which is simultaneously the best and worst part of the Australian comedy Introducing the Dwights.
As Jean Dwight, a once-promising comedian still hungry for the limelight decades past her prime, she simply radiates energy on the nightclub stage, with her corny jokes and sparkly dresses. It's observational humor — stuff about ironing, aging, what it's like to have sex with a heavyset man, which she delivers with a conspiratorial wink and a smile. Nothing earth-shattering, but it's enough to earn her the moniker of "clubland's raunchiest housewife."
At home in suburban Sydney, though, she still has to be the constant center of attention. And so she flies into vicious fits of jealousy when one of her two sons, the 20-year-old virgin Tim (Khan Chittenden), falls in love for the first time.
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