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On April 1, 2008, the CBC and Air Farce jointly announced that the Royal Canadian Air Farce would wrap up its weekly television show in the 2008/2009 season. The plan as announced was for nine new Air Farce shows to be produced for the fall of 2008, and then the series would end with a New Year's Eve special at the end of 2008. [12] [13]
Royal Canadian Air Farce (broadcast as Air Farce Live during 2007, and Air Farce—Final Flight! in 2008), and often credited simply as Air Farce, was a Canadian sketch comedy series starring the comedy troupe Royal Canadian Air Farce, that previously starred in an eponymous show on CBC Radio, from 1973 to 1997.
Jessica Holmes (born August 29, 1973) is a Canadian comedian and actress. She is best known for her work with the show Royal Canadian Air Farce, which she joined in 2003, after starring in her own show, The Holmes Show in 2002. She is also an advocate for mental health issues and is married to actor Scott Yaphe.
Roger Abbott, late member of Royal Canadian Air Farce; Vik Adhopia, reporter covering affairs of Newfoundland and Labrador; Kate Aitken, radio and television personality of the 1930s to 1950s; Madeleine Allakariallak, former anchor of Igalaaq on CFYK-DT; Andrew Allan, national head of CBC Radio Drama from 1943 to 1955
He and Dave Broadfoot were the only Canadian-born original cast members of Air Farce. In 1998, Ferguson and the original Air Farce cast of Roger Abbott, Luba Goy, and John Morgan received the Governor General's Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement, Canada's highest honour in the performing arts. [1]
Craig Lauzon is a Canadian actor, writer, and comedian. He is best known for his time as a member of the Royal Canadian Air Farce. His main caricatures on the Farce include George Stroumboulopoulos, John Baird, Justin Trudeau and Stephen Harper. Born in Ottawa, Ontario, Lauzon is of English and Ojibwa descent. [1]
In 1971, she joined "The Jest Society", a comedy troupe, which evolved into the Royal Canadian Air Farce in 1973. In the early 1980s, she starred (as herself, alongside Billy Van) in an educational series on computers called Bits and Bytes. Produced by TVOntario, the show was aired by PBS stations in the United States.
He joined the Royal Canadian Air Farce for a 2014 special, [8] remaining with the troupe until their final special in 2019. [ 9 ] In 2020, he participated in Mass Hysterical: A Comedic Cantata , a webcast collaboration between Second City alumni and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra which presented a comedic history of the use of classical and ...