Satire rears its wonderful head once again on the good old CBC and we’re all that much better for it. Once again The Farce is with us, as the gang gear up for another season of mocking the high, the mighty and the flighty.
It debuts each week on Monday nights and repeats again on Friday night, just wrapping up its second week of the season the long lasting satirical show reviewed a week of Canadianna and didn’t disappoint at all.
The players may have changed from the original gang that once performed a live show at our Performing Arts Centre (one of the best programs ever put on there by the way), but the new blood that has joined up are starting to find their groove after some rough spots last year.
With long time vets Roger Abbot, Luba Goy and Don Ferguson , teamed up with relative newcomers Jessica Holmes and Alan Park as well as the latest in Farceheads Craig Lauzon, the program is back to doing what it has always done well, make Canadians laugh at the crazy things that make this country tick.
Week two brought some interesting gems for a laugh starved nation.
Some witty little interview pieces about Michael Ingatieff and Bob Rae the front runners in the seemingly never ending Liberal race.
A terrific knock off on those Mac/PC commercials that seem to dominate my TV set these days, I’m a Liberal, and I’m PC, and from there it’s just good entertainment.
A preview of a new western called Softwood, the deadliest deal to ever come to the West.
They gave us a successful send off on the rush to all news radio in the larger Canadian cities, which seem to mostly feature time checks and teasers for stories that never seem to get told. Good thing that they haven’t heard about the all traffic format in Vancouver, that would be worth a segment all to itself.
The writing is always sharp on the Farce and for the most part the actors do a fine job of their impersonations of those that must be mocked.
For whatever reason, political satire seems to be the thing of gold at the CBC these days,
from the Rick Mercer Report, through 22 minutes and with the Air Farce.
With new material each week, it’s safe to say that there is always something to laugh about, better yet it probably educates Canadians about the issues of the day.
It should be a worrisome thing for the politicians, business leaders and those that have too high an opinion of themselves. We’re watching and laughing, perform at your own peril!
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