Any year that features a National Hockey League strike - cleverly combining Canada's two favourite pastimes - has to qualify for Year of the Farce status. So does a year when Bryan Adams' mega-zillion-selling hit Everything I Do is declared non-Canadian by the government broadcasting regulator.
But you don't have to be a sports nut or a rock star to enjoy Year of the Farce. There are also sketches about a man with a milking machine, get-rich-quick TV shows, the Men's Movement, real estate, radio phone-ins, and sex.
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The stars of the Royal Canadian Air Farce are Roger Abbott, Don Ferguson, Luba Goy, and John Morgan. Again they're re-joined by Dave Broadfoot (performing two of his best-loved characters, hockey hero Big Bobby Clobber and the Member for Kicking Horse Pss), and regular guest performer Barbara Budd.
Two Vancouver-based stars also join The Farce as special guests. Featured in Duelling Joes are CBC's Vicki Gabereau, and Double Exposure's Bob Robertson.
The sketches were recorded for broadcast on Air Farce's weekly CBC Radio show, before theatre audiences in Halifax, Nova Scotia; Saint John, New Brunswick; Blyth, Thunder Bay and Toronto, Ontario; New Westminster, British Columbia, and Iqaluit, Northwest Territories.
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