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Tuesday,
December 2 ,
2003
AIR
FARCE RELEASES "4X4"
ON DVD/VHS
Here
are 4 great Air Farce episodes, featuring 4 great guest stars - Sean
Cullen, Ron James, Peter Keleghan and Patrick McKenna -
each forming a foursome with Air Farce's Roger, Don and Luba.
Each episode is
also a time capsule of what was shaking our world (or at least making
headlines) that week - wayward politicians at home, a spanking nun,
weapons of mass destruction, and our own weapon of messy destruction,
the mighty Air Farce Chicken Cannon.
And, as a special
bonus, there's a clip-filled tribute to original Air Farce star and
writer John Morgan ("I'm Mike, From Canmore")
which Alison Smith prepared for CBC News: The
National when John retired from the series. Click
here for more
details and ordering information.
Monday,
December 1,
2003
JESSICA
HOLMES JOINS
AIR FARCE!
ROYAL
CANADIAN AIR FARCE is a quartet again! Roger, Don and
Luba have invited JESSICA
HOLMES to join them as a permanent
Air Farce cast member.
After guest
appearances where she's performed characters ranging from shamed
celebrities Michael Jackson and Paris
Hilton to Canadian sports stars
Hayley Wickenheiser and Terry
Leibel, and plenty of viewer response,
Air Farce welcomes Jessica as a weekly player.
"Jessica is
a tremendous fit with Air
Farce,” says producer Don. “She is a
wonderfully skilled and versatile comic who invents characters
and impersonates the famous with great ease. Jessica is
a fresh and funny addition to our show.
Recent viewer
comments include:
- "Jessica
Holmes is a wonderful addition!"
- “Jessica
is absolutely brilliant."
- "Make Jessica
a permanent part of the crew!"
- "Jessica
is the perfect spice added to an
already perfect dish!"
A veteran of sketch and improvisational comedy, Jessica
Holmes is an Ottawa
native who attended a performing arts high school where she performed comedy
with an award-winning improv team. Before studying at Ryerson
University 's Radio and Television Arts program in Toronto , she traveled in Europe and did
two years of missionary work in Venezuela . After graduating she joined the
Second City company and toured the country.
Jessica
Holmes starred in the CTV series ‘The
Holmes Show' last season, and other
TV series appearances have been in Sonic Temple,
The Itch, History Bites, and in the feature film Welcome
to Mooseport.
She also starred in a one-woman show called Jessie's
Girls.
Please join
us in welcoming Jessica to the Farce! Click
here email us your comments or post a note in our forum!
Thursday,
November 27 ,
2003
GUEST
STAR JESSICA
HOLMES RETURNS
FRIDAY,
NOVEMBER 28 @ 8pm ON CBC-TELEVISION. Guest star Jessica
Holmes joins Roger, Don and Luba for
a skewed look at the week's events. Click
here for
an audio sample.
This
week on the show: Dave the Cabbie looks at Christmas, the
40th anniversary of JFK's assassination, Tony
Blair's guest
appearance on The Simpsons and new
Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty; Gameshow Host Wood
Gundy spins the "Wheel of Greed" with
contestants Conrad
Black and Martha
Stewart; Larry
King talks
to Michael Jackson and tells him to beat it;
Two doctors discuss the current state of health care in Canada; "Notions" host Abendigo talks
to Doctor Fleuss, who claims to have originally
come up with the story of the Cat in the Hat; and
the New EN Eyewitness News, with co-anchors Donna
Pleasance and Joan Manners, can't thank
you enough for tuning in to their news broadcast.
Monday,
November 17 ,
2003
GUEST
STAR JESSICA
HOLMES RETURNS
Coming
Up: Friday, November 21 @ 8PM on CBC Television. This
week on Royal
Canadian Air Farce: Guest star Jessica
Holmes returns to join Roger, Don and Luba for
a skewed look at the week's events.
On
the show: The Wendy Report is joined by Rex
Murphy, Hilton Hotel heiress (and recent celebrity sex
video contributor) Paris Hilton, and Mr.
Bubbles from Trailer Park Boys; Paul
Martin and Jean
Chrétien get together one last time as the reins
of power are "peacefully" transferred; Prince
Charles gets Royally Punk'd; Gino
Reda interviews female hockey player Hayley Wickenheiser who
joined a men's professional hockey team in Finland; George
Dubya Bush visits
his mate Tony Blair in Britain; The Confused Philosopher returns; and peppy Morning
TV host Sandy Doppelganger interviews Margaret
Mary MacKay, Canada's oldest and slowest person.
Tuesday,
October 21, 2003
GUEST
STAR JAMES ROUSSEL RETURNS
Coming
Up: Friday, October 24 @ 8PM. Royal Canadian Air Farce, Canada’s
number one comedy show returns to CBC Television and
this week we will be joined by returning guest star James Roussel.
James
Roussel has worked in the comedy scene for many years both
on screen and stage. A native of Toronto, and a graduate of the Canadian
Film Centre, James' las appeared on an episode ofAir
Farce last April, and he can be also seen this fall on CTV's
new sketch comedy series Comedy Inc. He also appeared
in "Ham I Am", a one hour comedy special
written by (and starring) fellow Air Farce guest star
Craig Lauzon. James' first foray into sketch comedy
was part of the troupe Urban Myth as part of CBC's
weekly comedy series SketchCom! Currently,
James is exploring musical comedy with Kevin
Aichle in a duo known as The Country Gentlemen.
This
week we take a look at the latest headlines with Peter
Mansbridge: In An Elevator, the latest time saving device from the
Canadian Tire Couple, a
lecture on disease from the Chief Health Officer, Global Television's
Train 48, Steve
Harper talks to Don Newman about the new Conservative Party of Canada,
the
World Series, a
possible approach to choosing the next Pope and George
W. Bush and Dick Cheney look ahead to Election 2004.
Thursday,
October 16, 2003
AIR FARCE
IS BACK FRIDAYS AT 8PM!
Friday,
October 17 @ 8PM on CBC Television: Canada’s
number one comedy show returns to CBC Television for
its first regular show with returning guest star Jessica Holmes.
This
week we take a look at theDe-Criminalization
of Marijuana, Siegfried
and Roy, Ontario
Premier-elect Dalton McGuinty, Governor
Ah-Nold and sound off on the
new "Alliance" of Conservatives.
Jessica
Holmes is a successful comedian, actress, screenwriter and
speaker. In 1999 she was nominated for the prestigious TIM SIMS
ENCOURAGEMENT AWARD then landed several appearances at the
JUST FOR LAUGHS INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL in Montreal.
She competed in the COMEDY NIGHT IN CANADA stand-up
competition and also appeared in the WORLD IMPROV CHAMPIONSHIPS.
She
was also nominated for several 2000 and 2001 CANADIAN COMEDY
AWARDS for her TV and sketch comedy work.
Holmes co-wrote and starred in the Comedy Network series
THE ITCH, and the CTV comedy/music series: SONIC
TEMPLE. She went on to write and star in her own one-hour comedy
special for CTV titled HOLMES ALONE,
in which she played a range of hilarious characters such as Candy the
happy-go-racist artist, and Patrinka the unsmiling Russian singer. For
the special, Holmes received a GEMINI nomination as
well as the Platinum Award at the HOUSTON INTERNATIONAL
COMEDY FESTIVAL.
The
success of Holmes Alone led to the creation of THE HOLMES SHOW
- a sketch comedy series that delves into parody and satire.
Holmes writes and stars in the series, along with Kurt Smeaton
and Roman Danylo.
Jessica
can soon be seen in the Ray Romano/Gene Hackman movie Welcome
to Mooseport. You can also catch her in an episode of Doc
on PaxTV; and alongside Don Ferguson and Kathryn
Greenwood in the new CBC comedy XPM.
Monday,
October 6, 2003
MIRTH APPEAL!
AIR FARCE IS BACK FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10 FOR OUR SEASON 11 PREMIERE ON CBC
TELEVISION WITH A RIOTOUS SPECIAL FROM SAINT JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK!
ROYAL
CANADIAN AIR FARCE’s first road trip from Brandon,
Manitoba was such a roaring success – at 1.2-million,
their highest-rated show of last season -- they’re
going back on the road to launch their 11th season on
CBC Television Friday, October 10 at 8 p.m.
This time, the Farce is heading to the east coast, with a 1-hour
season premiere special live from the Imperial Theatre
in Saint John, New Brunswick (The
Imperial has been restored to its original 1913 glory as a
Victorian proscenium-arch vaudeville road-house.)
“Taking
the Air Farce television act on the road, to live audiences
in different cities across Canada, has been a ten-year dream,”
says Roger Abbott. “First Brandon,
and now Saint John – we’re having fun going
to places that every Canadian has heard of, but rarely sees on national
television.”
Joining
the Air Farce cast will be
Guest Stars Craig Lauzon and Rochelle Wilson, some
famous New Brunswick special guests (see below), a
hint of Atlantic salt, and the topical comedy and characters that keep
Air Farce on top of the Canadian comedy ratings.
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Craig
Lauzon |
Rochelle
Wilson |
Canadian
Idol's Runner Up (and one of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia's favourite
sons), Gary Beals makes a memorable appearance in Canadian
Idol: Saint John Edition, where he must fight with Ben
Mulroney (played by Craig Lauzon) for control
of the microphone and go head to head against Phoebe Gobble
(played by Rochelle Wilson).
Canadian
Idol Runner Up Gary Beals
New
Brunswick Premier Bernard Lord joins Roger Abbott,
Don Ferguson, and Luba Goy on stage at Saint
John’s historic Imperial Theatre, and
gives a “Premier performance”.
NB
Premier Bernard Lord with Don Ferguson, Roger Abbott
New
Brunswick actor/comedian Marshall Button will
be featured with his insider’s view of the Maritimes as
the character Lucien.
Marshall Button as Lucien
Conservative
MP Elsie Wayne, a native of Saint John, joins
in the fun and assists Roger Abbott as he takes a virtual
tour around Saint John in "Great Cities of the World".
Backstage,
Elsie Wayne assists Luba Goy (as Elsie Wayne)
To
kick off the new season, the Air Farce premiere will
also include a backward glance at the summer of 2003
– from the same-sex marriage controversy to Ontario’s
massive power failure, and television’s latest phenomenon,
Canadian Idol. Plus there’ll be regional comedy
targets, like the Bay of Fundy’s tidal bore,
Saint John M.P. Elsie Wayne and New Brunswick’s
skyrocketing auto insurance rates. And no road trip would be
complete without Air Farce’s weapon of messy
destruction, the Chicken Cannon (with Saint
John Mayor Shirley McAlary's assistance).
Roger,
Don and Luba pay tribute to the Beaver.
ROYAL
CANADIAN AIR FARCE is produced by Roger Abbott and
Don Ferguson for Air Farce Productions Inc. in
association with CBC Television. Head writers are Gold
Holtam and Rick Olsen; the series is directed
by Perry Rosemond, recent inductee into The
Order of Canada.
ROYAL
CANADIAN AIR FARCE special from Saint John on
CBC Television on Friday, October 10, 8-9 pm.
The new season will continue on Fridays, 8-8:30 p.m.
Friday,
August 22, 2003
ROYAL CANADIAN
AIR FARCE TAPES SPECIAL AT IMPERIAL THEATRE, SAINT JOHN ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER
23 FOR ITS SEASON OPENING ON CBC TELEVISION
Royal
Canadian Air Farce, Canada’s number one comedy show comes
to Saint John, New Brunswick on Tuesday, September
23 for two tapings of a special that will launch its 11th season
on CBC Television on Friday, October 10.
Roger
Abbott, Don Ferguson, and Luba Goy
plus guests will perform at 5 pm and 9
pm at the Imperial Theatre, Saint
John on Tuesday, September 23. Tickets are
$30, $25, $20 each (HST and Imperial Theatre surcharge included) and
can be purchased at the Imperial Theatre box office and
all regular outlets. Phone orders are taken at 506-674-4100
or 1-800-323-SHOW (7469). A portion of the
proceeds from the tapings will go to these Saint John charities: Saint
John Boys & Girls Club, Saint John Theatre Company, and Second Stage
Safe Haven.
The
Saint John special will feature a line-up of notable guests whose names
will be released in the next few weeks..
“We ended last season with an hour-long special from Brandon,
Manitoba and it was a big success,” said Don Ferguson.
“So we decided to go in the other direction to start the new season.
Air Farce once toured constantly when we were on radio,
so it’s invigorating to go on the road. Because our shows are
topical, I can’t say exactly what will be in this special, but
there will be a very definite New Brunswick element.”
ROYAL
CANADIAN AIR FARCE special from Saint John on
CBC Television on Friday, October 10, 8-9 pm.
The new season will continue on Fridays, 8-8:30 p.m.
