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| PODCAST: Bill Brioux Speaks To Roger Abbott For TV Eh? Bill Brioux interviews Roger Abbott to "discuss all things Farce, including what might be next for younger troupers Jessica Holmes, Craig Lauzon and Alan Parks and whether [Luba] Goy is really going through with that "rent-a-goy" idea. Click here to listen.
Air Farce Live returns Friday, October 3rd! Join us for our final season next fall, Friday nights on CBC Television, and our series finale on New Year's Eve!
Watch Air Farce Live This Summer! On many Friday nights (depending on hockey playoffs in different time zones), episodes of Air Farce Live from last fall are being shown on CBC. Summer repeats start Friday, June 13 @ 8:00 (8:30 NL) on CBC, starting with episode #15-11 (originally broadcast January 18, 2008), and run weekly through the end of September!
Air Farce invades your iPod! Did you miss last week's episode? If you've got a personal media device that can play videos, like Apple's iPods, then you can now take Air Farce with you wherever you go! Every Air Farce Live episode from this season is available to download for only $1.99 per episode on iTunes. New shows are added weekly. Don't worry ... the show will still be available for free streaming here at airfarce.com. But for Farce on the go (along with some of your other favourite CBC shows), log onto iTunes today! iTunes is available as a free download to your Mac or PC from Apple Canada's website.
If you're a member of the Facebook.com phenomenon, come join us in the official Air Farce Live group. See exclusive photos and video clips, leave us your comments, and chat with fans, friends, cast, and crew. Click here and be an official Facebook Friend of the Farce!
Air Farce wraps it up this year...This will be our final season, as we wrap up forever on December 31, 2008. Read all about it in the following media links, and check out the message below from the Air Farce production and creative team.
IN THE MEDIA: Roger and Me: Podcast Interview With Roger Abbott (Bill Brioux) Give Air Farce An Honourable Discharge (National Post) Royal Canadian Air Farce Set To End (CBC.ca) CBC Comedy Air Farce Grounded (SUN media) After 35 Years, Air Farce To Wrap It Up (Globe and Mail) Royal Canadian Air Farce Sketch Series To End... (Canadian Press) Final Call For Air Farce (Martin Knelman, Toronto Star) Farce Goes Out With A Bang (Bill Brioux, TV Feeds My Family) Air Farce Grounded After Half Season Order (Bill Brioux)
April 1, 2008 Dear Friends and Fans: 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. Then we started Air Farce on CBC Radio
Where it all began ... Royal Canadian Air Farce's first ever broadcast was on the CBC Radio series "The Entertainers" on Sunday, December 9, 1973. Recorded in front of an audience of 160 people at the Curtain Club in Richmond Hill, Ontario, click here for a clip of one of our very first sketches.
Latest Air Farce DVD • FARCEBOOK • Available Now! * 2 Disc Set - Includes Our 300th Episode! * Farcebook is a double-dose of Air Farce comedy, Canada's favourite social networking tool. The faves from 2007 disc features 43 top scenes from last season on CBC Television, taking pokes and potshots at outsourced phone centres, Mac ads and iPods, oddball comedy moments with Britney and Sir Paul, and irresistible targets like politics and politicians.
Click here to order your copy now, or call 416-205-3800; you can also order any of our previous Air Farce DVDs and even purchase Air Farce Live T-shirts, just like Jessica's (HD television not included!). Mugs and memo cubes also available. Supply is limited, so order yours today!
 Are You Watching Us In HD? Give Us Your Feedback! Last season, we became Canada’s first High Definition sketch-comedy series. Watch Air Farce Live on CBC HD, listen in 5.1 Surround Sound. Tell us what you think and drop us a comment about the experience by clicking here.
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AIR FARCE TICKETS AVAILABLE AFTER LABOUR DAY! * See the show for FREE Fridays in downtown Toronto * Click here to book your free tickets to see Air Farce Live in person. Be a part of our live broadcast, or get an insider's view of how our show gets put together by attending our afternoon dress rehearsal. Tickets to the final season (fall 2008) will be released in September 2008. Please check back at that time to place your ticket request, and book early to avoid disappointment (sorry, we won't be keeping a wait list). |
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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.
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Online Now: One Hour Season Finale (April 4, 2008): It's our 1 HOUR season finale, and Americans' reactions to Obama and Clinton are split down the middle, Mama Michelina gets a mouthful from Luba in "Ad Absurdum," Sister Bessie returns to dole out a prestigious honour, April Fools according to Ahmedinejad, some Powerwise advice from David Suzuki, the return of Professor Ick and the 411 on H20, disbanding the CBC orchestra, and the Chicken Cannon fires one last shot before the summer ... it's a double dose of Farce!
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ONLINE NOW - CBC News: The National ... a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Air Farce Live as cameras capture the rehearsals, meetings, and backstage action of the first week of our new LIVE series. (Originally broadcast October 26, 2007; repeated February 1, 2008). |
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