According to Wikipedia, the comedy group started off in 1970 as 'The Jest Society', a play on Pierre Trudeau's goal of a 'Just Society'. Kind of a lame title. This tactic of taking a letter and changing it was repeated when the 'Jest Society' changed their name to the Royal Canadian Air Farce. When the current show started in 1993, the crew had Jean Chretien and multiple other targets of Canadian politics to satirize, and ample material in Canadian culture (like those silly Canadian Tire commercials). But even then, the sketches didn't move past a simple caricature of Chretien's accent, or any other one-dimensional premise.

I specifically remember a sketch about the 'War on Christmas' - and the premise being a guy was reading a Christmas story by a fireplace. What's the joke? Every time the word Christmas should come up, he says 'holiday' instead. And the sketch continues like this for about 7 or 8 minutes. Somewhere along the way, somebody should have said, "Guys - don't you think we should do something more? Make something happen? Have at least some kind of a story, at least?" I guess that didn't ever happen. or maybe it did, and they fired the guy who said it.

I have never met anybody who says they watch this show, so I'm assuming the only people who do are 100 year old brain dead people who live in old folks homes where the TV has to be set to CBC 24 hours a day because it is the only channel they can get.

Maybe they used to be funny back in the days when families would sit around their radio sets after dinner with grannie and pappy, but they sure aren't now. Take for example their chicken cannon. Every show they put up a picture of a politician who is in the news that week, load up a compressed-air powered 'chicken cannon' and shoot the picture with hilarious 'ammunition', like for example they might put BALONEY in the chicken cannon 'because this guy is full of BALONEY!' They try not to laugh at their own hilarious jokes and shoot the picture. And it's called the chicken cannon because it's got a funny cartoon of a chicken drawn on it! They also do impressions of all the country's big politicians. They actually can't really do impressions though, they just put on different glasses and a wig and then say "hello I'm so-and-so"...

They have Luba Goy who impersonates every female character on the show which is so terrible it's not even funny because she's like 3 feet tall and 400 pounds and 75 years old so watching her pretend to be people half her age is just sad.

Why is it that so many people state their opinion like it is the be all and end all of quality assessments? There is a big difference between "This show/car/toaster sucks" and "I don't like this show/car/toaster" Everybody is free to like or dislike anything they want, but not liking something, be it a movie, car or appliance, does not make it bad. A statement could be made regarding a defective consumer device being bad, but such a case cannot really be made for anything that is purely subjective. Don't like a TV show? Fine, but that does NOT mean that is sucks. That's just as silly as saying "I don't like the color purple, therefore purple sucks".

TV shows and movies are subjective. Just because you don't like one, that does not make it bad. Conversely, if you like a particular show, that does not necessarily make it good. That's the beauty of democracy. Gotta love it.

This show is a Canadian touchstone. It has some of the funniest people in Canada (in my eyes at least) and some wittingly funny bits. True, it has been going downhill slowly ever since John Morgan died in 2004, but it still manages to entertain audiences in Canada and the Northern United States. There are some people who are reading this and thinking : "How can this guy find it funny?" Quite Simply, I am Canadian. I have watched the Air Farce so many times I can recite the sketches off by heart, I give the finger to every driver I pass, and I have eaten more Alberta beef than a person should of my age. And do you know why, because I am Canadian!

It's like watching half an hour of a nightmare where you're stuck in the audience of a community theatre show at an old folks home where nobody is allowed to walk out.

It's just painful.

They do impersonations where they put on a wig and then say for example "Hi I'm Bob Rae" but then they just use their own voice. That's not an impersonation, it's just a confused senior citizen wearing a wacky wig telling jokes that for some reason they think might be funny to somebody else.