In 1973, a fledgling Toronto comedy troupe, desperate not to find itself still out of work by Christmas, proposed to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that CBC Radio's top priority be a new radio comedy show.

The show would star the troupe performing their own material in front of a live audience, accompanied by live sound effects.

And to round out the concept, the scripts would be written at the last minute and ignored anytime some good ad libs came up.

For some bizarre reason, CBC Radio went for it.

On Sunday, December 9, 1973, the Royal Canadian Air Farce broadcast its very first show. And the rest (to coin a phrase) is comedy.

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Here's more than an hour of Royal Canadian Air Farce comedy sketches from the 1990/91 broadcast season on CBC Radio. As usual there's a punchy mix with scenes that reflect the headlines (like Iraqi Wheel of Fortune), some that reflect Canadian politics (Speech from the Throne), some that reflect changing times and attitudes (Man Bash), some that are so weird you'd never believe they're based on fact (The Science of Tooting), and some that raised a few eyebrows when they were broadcast (PMS Airlines).

It's a typical Air Farce mix. Highbrow, lowbrow, cleverly witty, absurdly stupid, irreverent, outrageous... it's the recipe for every show.

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These are the audio clips from CBC's Royal Canadian Air Farce TV show.

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This channels contains many of Royal Canadian Air Farce episodes available on airfarce.com. It is in no way affiliated with Canadian Broadcasting Corporation nor any other authority that has copyrights for RCAF. As monetization is turned off, this channel is not generating any profits.

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