Royal Canadian Air Farce: The End
p2pnet news view | TV:- “On May 31, 1970, a small group of Montrealers debuted a comedy show at a small theatre on Blvd. de Maisonneuve,” writes Don Fergusson in the Toronto Star.
“The group, called The Lace-Up Demons (no one knew why), put on a mostly improvised performance that was enthusiastic, under-rehearsed and over the top. One of the sketches ended with two actors portraying masturbating monkeys.”
They went on to become the Royal Canadian Air Farce, which after 16 years, comes to an end on December 31.
“When we started doing improv comedy together (Roger, Don, Luba and John), a long time ago, we wondered how long we’d be able to have fun before we had to get real jobs,” said a press statement on April 1.
But it was no joke.
It went on »»»
Then we started Air Farce on CBC RadioRadio and wondered how long it would last. Maybe two years? Maybe five? Then, twenty years later, we started Air Farce on CBC Television and hoped it might last for maybe three years. So, for 35 years we’ve known that one of these days, we’d do our final show. And now, we and CBC have agreed on the date: it’ll be December 31, 2008, 35 years after starting our radio series (December 1973) and 16 years after our first New Year’s Eve special (1992 Year of the Farce) on CBC Television.
In comedy, timing is everything, and knowing when to make your exit is a big part of that. We’re wrapping up our 15th season this week (Friday night, 8-9 PM), and well be back on Friday nights in October, November, a little bit of December. And then on December 31, we’ll finish the way we began with a New Year’s Eve special.
We’ve had a terrific career with the great privilege of being able to entertain our fellow Canadians, make fun of Canadian passions and pastimes, and take a poke at Canadian politicians.
Our ratings have remained strong this year, and we’re proud to have a large and loyal audience of Canadians of all ages. We thank you for your support and your laughter, and we thank our tremendous production team for contributing their remarkable talents whether it’s building sets, designing costumes or graphics, lighting the studio, mixing the pictures and audio, researching the stories, printing the scripts, etc. etc. to every episode.
RIP
Toronto Star – , December 28, 2008
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