Comic pair send up comic pairs

"Loud, liberating laughter" is a promotional promise for an Australian comedy show coming to Blenheim next week.

Busting Out by Emma Powell and Bev Killick sets out to show audience members the funny side in that quintessential symbol of womanhood – breasts.

Powell is credited with creating the chest jests show and says the concept came in late 2005 when she had no work opportunities coming up in 2006.

"So I decided I would do a `boob' show at the 2006 Melbourne International Comedy Festival."

Titled D-Cuppetry, it drew 60 people to its opening night but received great reviews. Over the following two years, following copious rewrites, rehearsals, trial performances and lots of laughter, Busting Out was created.

Stand-up comedy star Killick was invited to be part of it and the pair bring their boobs show to the Marlborough Civic Theatre on Tuesday, March 2.

Did you know?Until the late 1800s most wealthy women used corsets to push the breasts up, rather than support them with straps from the shoulders down.

The word brassiere was in common usage by 1907 but it was another five years before it appeared in the Oxford Dictionary.

An average bra weighs half a kilogram.

In most women, one breast is slightly larger than the other, but in most bras both cups are the same size.

39 per cent of (Australian) women consider their breasts droopy, 20 per cent too big, 15 per cent too small, 19 per cent unattractive and 12 per cent unbalanced.

Bendon says while C cup bras are still the most popular size in New Zealand, sales of D to J cup sizes have increased by 53 per cent over the past three years. Over the same period, AA to C-cup bra sales have increased by only 2 per cent.

A Japanese researcher claims a baby's cry can increase a woman's breast size. He believes women respond physically to a child wailing, causing plumper boobs.

- The Marlborough Express

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