| 
Roger Abbot, Don Ferguson, Luba Goy
and John Morgan
|
It all started in Montreal
when John Morgan co-founded the improv group, the Jest Society.
"Jesters" Roger, Don, John, Luba and David Broadfoot went
on to form Royal Canadian Air Farce after CBC Radio rejected
the name, Beaver Follies. Broadfoot talks candidly about
why he felt compelled to leave the show after 15 years.
The personal side of the farceurs is
revealed as Don chats with his mother and talks about this
father's death. Luba visits her hideaway in the Gatineau
Hills and recalls the night Don's first child was born.
John spends time with his son at the townhouses they are developing
and Roger and Don visit their old high school in Montreal.
They all talk about each other and how their relationship
works.
"When you live with a family, everybody
behaves they way they feel," Luba explains. "And sometimes
if they do cross the line, they know I'll forgive them because
they don't really mean it. They're just being silly.
They're just being juvenile or just being men."
We get a hilarious behind-the-scenes
look at how the Air Farce television show is put together
from script readings to rehearsals and tapings.
"People absolutely love them and seem
to have no compunction about going up to them," producer David
Langer observes. "Air Farce comes into their living
rooms each week and they feel like these people, who look
like ordinary folk, are really a part of their lives."
Original Air Date - January 23, 1998
Links
The
Royal Canadian Air Farce official Web site
(Note: CBC does not endorse the content of external
sites)
|
