Every week, the hilarious cast of The Irrelevant Show brings you a buffet of award-winning comedy sketches and songs, recorded before a live audience in Edmonton, Alberta.

The show ranges all over the comedy map, from the everyday to the surreal. You'll hear scenes about family life, dating, relationships and the workplace. The show offers an irreverent take on pop culture - from the news, to game shows, to superheroes. And some sketches will simply be flights of imagination - to other times, other planets and other universes.

So you'll hear a family terrified of the eating and sleeping machine that is their 14-year old son. A team of jewellery thieves refuses to steal blood diamonds. James Bond meets an old nemesis at a seniors' home. Plus a song about a woman's secret passionate love of potato chips, an awkward conversation between Luke and Leia about that one time they kissed, and even a sketch where Stuart McLean reads ransom notes.

"We offer something for every comedy taste," says producer Peter Brown, "there are so many styles and points of view, that the show completely changes subject and tone from one sketch to the next. At tapings, when I ask audience members which sketch was their favourite, I often get ten different answers."

The Irrelevant Show is back for its third season on the CBC Radio One network, and once again, live tapings have become hot tickets in the Edmonton area. "The live recordings are a fantastic experience", Brown says. "The actors are performing the sketches for a live audience for the first time; the crowd gets to see sound effects and music created right in front of them: suddenly the whole show comes to life right before your eyes. The energy is amazing, and when the show gets on a roll there's nothing like it".

For the first time, the show is hitting the road. Well, they're driving a short distance, doing a show, and coming home. There are tapings in Spruce Grove, St. Albert and Fort Saskatchewan, part of the troupe's ambitious "Home by Midnight" Tour.

This season's shows are compiled from live performances in late 2011 and early 2012 and include some of Edmonton's funniest comic actors: Mark Meer, Donovan Workun, Jana O'Connor, Marianne Copithorne, Neil Grahn and Leona Brausen.

Led by head writer Neil Grahn, the writing team includes members of the cast as well as writers from Edmonton's rich comedy community, including Chris Craddock and Dana Anderson. And the show reaches across the country for contributions from some of Canada's funniest non-Edmontonians: Ian Boothby, Kurt Smeaton, Michael Balazo, Nile Seguin, Diana Frances and George Westerholm.

Plus there are new musical performers this year - including Sheldon Elter and Ryan Parker from Edmonton cult band the Be Arthurs, and gifted actor/singer Jocelyn Ahlf accompanied by the legendary Jan Randall on piano.

The Irrelevant Show has won both a Canadian Comedy award and a medal at the prestigious New York festivals.

The Irrelevant Show's new season begins Saturday mornings at 11, starting on January 7th, 2012.