TORONTO – Royal Canadian Air Farce will celebrate its 300th episode on CBC Television with an hour-long live telecast on Friday, March 30, at 8 p.m.
It’ll be the first time in the show’s history that an episode will be telecast live in real time.
The variety show’s regular troupe Roger Abbott, Don Ferguson, Luba Goy, Jessica Holmes, Craig Lauzon, Alan Park and featured player Penelope Corrin will be joined in a guest-star line-up representing other top Canadian comedy shows. From Little Mosque on the Prairie there will be Sitara Hewitt, Sheila McCarthy, and Carlo Rota, and from, CTV’s Corner Gas, co-star Fred Ewanuick. This Hour Has 22 Minutes alumna Mary Walsh (whose new movie Young Triffie opens on April 6), will also take part.
"Because it’s a live show, there will be plenty of up-to-the-minute jokes about the day’s headlines in this special, plus Farce-scope looks at lottery wins by store-owners, marijuana grow-ups, Conrad Black’s travails, and Al Gore’s environmental concerns. The Harpers and Dions (not Celine) will be skewered along with this week’s Quebec election and the new Federal Budget. Should anything misfire, the producers predict it will add to the fun," says the press release.
The Royal Canadian Air Farce debuted on CBC Television on October 8, 1993 and the average-per-minute audience for the show’s entire 300 episode run is over a million, says the CBC – and the show’s most recent New Year’s Eve special attracted 1,117,000 viewers.
