Air Farce was fantastic. John Morgan (RIP) was born in Scotland (like Tommy Douglas, the father of Canadian Medicare) and he did a recurring bit called Jacques McBile's Get Stuffed, where he played a kilt-clad Scottish stereotype who roasted politicians, both Canadian and American. He was great. The theme song of the TV show was written and performed by The Barenaked Ladies, a Canadian rock band that goes back to the early 90s.
Oh, oh. This was a good sketch. Air Farce had inconsistent quality. I never found RCAF as good as Monty Python. RCAF was typically oriented toward Canadian politics and current affairs.
I once saw them record their radio show live for an hour in a school auditorium in Montreal( they toured). It was a hilarious history of the RCMP, which turned into two 1/2 hour radio shows. They had a live sound effects guy on stage, and used a few costumes and props on a bare stage. rofl stuff. I listened from the beginning.
Love your reaction about this amazing country. 🇨🇦 I moved here over 40 years ago from England Come and visit and enjoy the Scottish Highland Games in Fergus, Ontario
This sketch was a one-off but the older fellow, John Morgan, had a recurring sketch called 'Get Stuffed' where he played a grumpy Scotsman who commented on current events. He is originally from Wales and he could nail most accents from the British Isles. The other man in this sketch is Roger Abbott and he was born in England but moved to Canada when he was very young. The woman is Luba Goy and her family is Ukrainian and she has acted in many Ukrainian-language films over the years in addition to her comedy work in English. The other main member of the troupe at this time was Don Ferguson, a Montrealer of Scottish extraction.
RIP "Royal Canadian Air Farce"-- it lasted decades, but CBC could've given us a few more decades. Pure FANTASTIC iconic Canadian comedy!! So glad you are enjoying watching this with us, lol!🤗♥️☘️🐾🌈☮️🇨🇦
Canada has had some of the best sketch comedy shows: CODCO, SCTV, Kids in the Hall, Red Green, This Hour has 22 Minutes, Bizarre, Baroness Von Sketch, Super Dave, Smith & Smith, Wayne & Shuster.
It all began with Wayne and Schuster;). A bit hokey by modern standards (laugh track and all) but Blood on the Toga, Shakespearean Baseball and Frontier Psychologist are all classic sketches.
@@silverjohn6037 One of my favourite Wayne & Shuster skits was "Star Schtick", a parody of Star Trek. My girlfriend back in the day, Arlene Duncan, played communications officer O'Hara ("This is my communications officer lieutenant O'Hara." "O'Hara?" "Sure, I was born in Dublin."). Arlene went on to play Fatima in "Little Mosque on the Prairie". From Smith & Smith, Steve's wife Morag was my public school art teacher in Oakville. She also sang in a local band which used to play at our school dances.
@@christophermerlot3366 I know, right? My mom was on the women's auxiliary guild at our church. If you told her a joke poking fun at religion she'd say "Oh, that's awful!" while giggle-snorting the whole time.
@@SilverityYes this skit was created when the market leading IBM PC was being challenged by the early Apple Mackintosh. Very different worlds, and very much still are.
We've just come back from a holiday in Spain. My wife didn't really enjoy it, because everyone could speak English and all the food was like the stuff we eat back at home. She said, "next time I want to go somewhere where they eat weird shit and you can't understand a word they say." So I've just booked us a fortnight in Scotland.
I cried when that show ended, they were like part of the family! There's only 2 left Luba & Don Ferguson the rest are gone. See John Morgan do "Mike frm Canmore", that's in Alberta just east of Banff, I use to live there in the '80's, Manitoba too in the '90's now back home in Ontario! John Morgan was one of the best & we loved him! He's 'Mike from Canmore'! Check all their old clips out! They even had a chicken canon at New Years which was meant to whip out the stupid fads over the previous yr! Miss them!
I did as well... at two different Air Force bases back in the 90s. I loved how they would roll into town a day or so early, spend time among the populace, getting the dirt and all the local gossip and rumours, and then turn around and incorporate it into the show for some wonderful local colour. I definitely miss that show.
Dave Broadfoot is from Royal Canadian Air Farce and he is satirically gifted in a very special Canadian way. Someone asked him what he would do if he won the lottery, to which he dead-panned; ‘I would farm until it was gone.’
@@silverjohn6037 ‘And then the suspect I was trying to arrest at the airport, jumped on the luggage conveyor belt and disappeared forever, just like my luggage’.
The lady in that piece is Luba Goy; she was born in 1945 in Germany to Ukrainian parents, and was raised in Ottawa Ontario from 1951. One of the cast members who wasn't in that piece was David Broadfoot. He did a long-running segment about Corporal Renfrew of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who, along with his incredible dog Cuddles, solved all sorts of ridiculously funny cases. The Airr Farce started on CBC Radio, and I will argue that moving to television caused them to lose some of their lustre. But they were still amazing. Thanks for that sketch. I had nae seen it before. Around 1978 or so, the Air Farce taped a couple of episodes for radio at the University of Regina. I was lucky enough to be there, and when Dave Broadfoot came onstage in his RCMP uniform, he was showing off his shoulder; he had been promoted by the head of the RCMP Academy in Regina, and when he got to the microphone, he announced for the radio audience, "This is SERGEANT Renfrew!" He got a standing ovation for his promotion. As time went on during the series, his sidekick Cuddles was also promoted to at least Corporal.
Oh, they were SO good on radio! I watched a couple of their tapings at the Cabbagetown Studio....in Cabbagetown! It was a theatre on Parliament St. in Toronto. They didn't have to create visual characters for radio, of course, which I think hampered them a bit on TV. On radio, just let your imagination go!
Ah, yes! Sergeant Renfrew of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and his common starter line "I was sitting in my lonely log cabin on the fourteenth floor of Mountie headquarters."
This is one I hadn't seen, so thank you for posting it. Pretty much everything John Morgan did was hilarious, and when he died, so did much of the humor of the TV show.
IBM vs. Macintosh! 🤣 As a vintage computer collector, I can attest that there ARE pieces of hardware and software that were designed to bridge the gulf between those two clans. What brought them together in the end was the world wide web.
Within my father's family, he had both Scottish highland roots and Scottish lowland roots. There was a family joke about one group being the sheep thieves and the other the sheep shaggers.
Actually, the job reference at the end, was because that; at the time, Apple computers were rarely, if ever, seen as a work computer. Windows based systems dominated the market at around 80%+.
'Jock Mcbile' was a great character with a skit called Get Stuffed on Royal Canadian Air Farce. Search for either 'Jock Mcbile' or 'Jock Mcbile Get Stuffed' and you should find his skits, they were great. Cheers from across the pond brother. :)
These guys tackled anything. In fact after an appropriate amount of time they tackled Lady Diana's death. I was one of her biggest fans and sobbed through her whole funeral BUT these guys found a way to honour it with humour. It was great!
On the show SCTV, Dave Thomas played a recurring character named Angus Crock, the greatest Blues singer in Scotland. Dave was also one of the two McKenzie brothers.
SNL (Saturday Night Live) used to have a skit called "All Things Scottish", about a shop that sold only Scottish goods. It features a character that Mike Myers played, so it counts as Canadian. I would suggest the skit with Kyle McLachlan in it.
As others have said - the father in this sketch also had a regular personality on the show called Jacques McBile who talked of current events at the time & had a special phrase he used all the time - "Get Stuffed." I don't know if there are any specific clips available of him in this persona on UA-cam - probably under Royal Canadian Air Farce - but not sure. (Sorry. ☺)
I loved Air Farce and was probably one of the ones suggesting this skit to you at some point. As a computer geek, when I saw this skit the first time on TV, I was roaring. (Apparently it's a remake from their radio days when they did their skits on CBC Radio)
John Morgan plays the father, Roger Abbott plays the son, Luba Goy is the mother. Not sure where Morgan and Abbott come from but Luba's of Ukranian descent I think. Great stuff. ❤❤
I like the Scottish accent, I moved to Canada in the late 80's and Royal Canadian Air Farce was very popular back then, I also worked with Scottish Canadians, and they used to teach me Scottish English, as a Spanish speaking person I could hear many similarities specially the rolling "RRRR".
As a real Macintosh and a fan of the Air Farce I'm surprised I'd never seen this one! When my ancestors came to Canada in the 1830's they found their true loves by marrying other Scottish. Hence my name, several generations later, is likely as Scottish as anyone's in Scotland.
F.Y.I. Macintosh. Is actually a type of apple in Canada. Like , Ida Red, Delicious, Gala, Honeycrisp, Spartan, Golden Delicious, Red Delicious, Ambrosia, Granny Smith.
Back in Canada's olden times when we still had telephone directories, the Mc's and Mac's filled far more pages than the Smiths and Jones'... I once met a Quebecer named Jean-Claude McPherson, he spoke nary a word of English. Likely a descendant of one of General Wolfe's soldiers who settled in Quebec.
I got a preferred episode... but it was the one I saw live. The Titanic skit was great but I can tell they didn't use our recording of it. The "Get Stuffed" skit was great and the director made a joke about McBile having the minister of finance on speed dial and he came right back in character with a great reply.... I can't remember what it was though, this was back on '97
The royal Canadian Air farce started out back in the 1970's and had their beginnings on radio before moving to Television, or that is where I use to hear them before they were on any TV shows.
So interesting you said Macintosh could be a Canadian name too, because I'm born in Canada (65 now), and I'd call it a Scottish name, cause I connect the name with the colonial roots here, rather than it being a "Canadian name", lol.
The cleverness of the writing...and then to put a Scottish twist into it too. I only heard The Royal Canadian Air Farce on the radio. They transitioned to tv. A loooong time ago. 🇨🇦 So I've never seen or heard this one before.
I, too, grew up listening to them on the radio, and it is still my preferred medium. However, I was also a fan of the TV series, and they did a lot of great sketches.
Of the main male performers on the show when this skit was filmed (1996 I believe), one was born in Scotland, one in Wales, one in England and the last was named Ferguson. Getting the accents correct probably wasn't too much a stretch for them.
We are proud to say that one of televisions most famous Scotsmen , James Doohan is a Canadian. He led an amazing life and was a fine example of the greatest generation. He could also do comedy ...ua-cam.com/video/QYqXSlPmMJs/v-deo.html A very interesting life ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Doohan
Birkenhead, England (moved to Canada aged 7); Haltern, Germany (moved to Canada aged 6), and Aberdare, Wales (moved to Canada aged 27) are the birth locations of these three. It is the Welshman of the group, John Morgan, that is know for his great Scottish accent. His best know Scottish character is Jock McBile. This one, a piss take on my mother's side of the family, is a one off.
Read the Founders auto-biography, it's pretty touching. Roger Abbot and Don Ferguson knew each other from grade school in Montreal. It all started there.
The Scottishness of Scots Canadians is more exaggerated for sure. Almost as if they were trying to prove something, either to themselves or to other people. Scots in Scotland, on the other hand, have nothing to prove to anyone. Ever.
One of Air Farce's longest running bits, was "The Chicken Cannon". Eventually it became a regular bit where they ended every show taking literal shots at political targets with ironic ammunition, even taking viewer suggestions. It got pretty... perfunctory however. What *I* want to see, and have not yet been able to find on UA-cam, is the FIRST chicken cannon sketch. The one that started it all... when it was so absurd even those seasoned comedy actors couldn't keep a straight face, near tears in almost-suppressed laughter. I haven't seen it since the day I watched it live on TV.
I think the most over the top Royal Canadian Air Farce skit was "Leonard Cohen's Suicide Christmas Song" which I think only played once during the holidays before it was deemed a bit too too much. The group started on the radio and in many ways were even better as a radio show.
Wasn't it promoting an entire ALBUM of songs to commit suicide by?? All Cohens' songs. Most Americans would't click that Leonard was a Canadian based in Montreal. They might not get the point!!
Lots of influential Scots in Canadian history, our first 24 years were Scottish born PMs. It's one of the larger heritages claimed by Canadians and Scottish last names are common.
The air farce was hilarious. Check out their chicken cannon. I think their first one is where the actors were struggling (and failing) to keep a straight face.
Mike Myers does plenty of Scottish comedy. Not Canadian per se but check out Sir Patrick Stewart Scottish shop on SNL. "If it's nae Scottish, it's crap!!"
Growing up in BC back in the day it was hard to go a day without a Scottish accent around. Teachers, storekeepers, every third person it seemed in some places.
Hi there... love your videos. You should check out some of the NFB (National Film Board) short videos about Scottish stories in Canada. "The Grand Republic of Manitoba" is my particular favourite... and the settlement of Upper and Lower Fort Gary.
Air Farce had a series of sketches called Get Stuffed. I also loved their chicken cannon and Mike from Kenmore, and the politically correct fairytale sketches too. Honestly you can't go wrong watching any of their episodes. Canada has had and still has some of the best comedians and comedy shows. We love to laugh and most often poke fun at our own culture and stereotypes. I recommend some of Wayne and Schuster especially their Caesar sketch as well although it's not the Scottish element. I also recommend the Frantics, another Canadian comedy group that had some great sketches. You might recognize a few of the cast since you watched the Red Green Show a bit. I recommend the "Last will and Testament" (otherwise known as a boot to the head).
I used to listen to the radio version and (unfortunately!). I can't hear anyone talk about cremation in any context without remembering Luba Goy quip "ODG, Mother's in the Hoover"
A Canadian family invites their Scots relatives to visit and the first thing they do is take them to their cabin in Northern Ontario. When they arrive and step inside the Scots stop dead in their tracks , point at the Giant head on the far wall and shriek, "Wats dat on yonder wall" . "Why that's a Canadian moose" came the reply. " Well iff'n that be a moose watrr yet Katz like"?😊
Air Farce is a great example of the quintessential Canadian sense of humour. I miss their New Year's specials - Chicken Cannon forever!!!
Air Farce was fantastic. John Morgan (RIP) was born in Scotland (like Tommy Douglas, the father of Canadian Medicare) and he did a recurring bit called Jacques McBile's Get Stuffed, where he played a kilt-clad Scottish stereotype who roasted politicians, both Canadian and American. He was great. The theme song of the TV show was written and performed by The Barenaked Ladies, a Canadian rock band that goes back to the early 90s.
John Morgan was born in Wales, not Scotland. However, his Scottish accents were always spot on!
@@pattyrrell4624 oh, my mistake. I don’t know where I got that from. I thought I heard it on a CBC News report.
R.I.P Roger Abbott too.
Airfarce went back before the 90s. 4 in the floor parodied them in the 80s
@@cpaton1284 yes, they were a CBC Radio show initially.
God I miss that program. The humour was like a Canadian version of Monty Python !
Oh, oh. This was a good sketch. Air Farce had inconsistent quality. I never found RCAF as good as Monty Python. RCAF was typically oriented toward Canadian politics and current affairs.
@@TrumpFacts-wl2ik Given recent politics in Canada I wouldn't be against the chicken cannon making a return.
@@avroarchitect1793 They'd need a whole chicken farm just to get through one week.
@@Shan_Dalamani thats the beauty of it though they used Rubber chickens
@@avroarchitect1793 I wasn't suggesting they use real chickens!
The Royal Canadian Air Farce started as a radio show on CBC radio in 1973 and moved to TV full time in 1992. It ran until 2016.
I loved listening to them on the radio! The History of Ottawa is one of the best!
I once saw them record their radio show live for an hour in a school auditorium in Montreal( they toured).
It was a hilarious history of the RCMP, which turned into two 1/2 hour radio shows.
They had a live sound effects guy on stage, and used a few costumes and props on a bare stage. rofl stuff.
I listened from the beginning.
Love your reaction about this amazing country. 🇨🇦 I moved here over 40 years ago from England
Come and visit and enjoy the Scottish Highland Games in Fergus, Ontario
This sketch was a one-off but the older fellow, John Morgan, had a recurring sketch called 'Get Stuffed' where he played a grumpy Scotsman who commented on current events. He is originally from Wales and he could nail most accents from the British Isles. The other man in this sketch is Roger Abbott and he was born in England but moved to Canada when he was very young. The woman is Luba Goy and her family is Ukrainian and she has acted in many Ukrainian-language films over the years in addition to her comedy work in English. The other main member of the troupe at this time was Don Ferguson, a Montrealer of Scottish extraction.
RIP "Royal Canadian Air Farce"-- it lasted decades, but CBC could've given us a few more decades. Pure FANTASTIC iconic Canadian comedy!! So glad you are enjoying watching this with us, lol!🤗♥️☘️🐾🌈☮️🇨🇦
Canada has had some of the best sketch comedy shows: CODCO, SCTV, Kids in the Hall, Red Green, This Hour has 22 Minutes, Bizarre, Baroness Von Sketch, Super Dave, Smith & Smith, Wayne & Shuster.
Bizarre was awesome. To this day I can't believe my conservative mom let me watch it.
It all began with Wayne and Schuster;). A bit hokey by modern standards (laugh track and all) but Blood on the Toga, Shakespearean Baseball and Frontier Psychologist are all classic sketches.
@@silverjohn6037 One of my favourite Wayne & Shuster skits was "Star Schtick", a parody of Star Trek. My girlfriend back in the day, Arlene Duncan, played communications officer O'Hara ("This is my communications officer lieutenant O'Hara." "O'Hara?" "Sure, I was born in Dublin."). Arlene went on to play Fatima in "Little Mosque on the Prairie". From Smith & Smith, Steve's wife Morag was my public school art teacher in Oakville. She also sang in a local band which used to play at our school dances.
@@rdjftw2531 The Canadian television industry has always been a small world;).
@@christophermerlot3366 I know, right? My mom was on the women's auxiliary guild at our church. If you told her a joke poking fun at religion she'd say "Oh, that's awful!" while giggle-snorting the whole time.
IBM and Macintosh. That's hilarious!!😂😂
I wonder how many people would get that joke today, haha
@@SilverityYes this skit was created when the market leading IBM PC was being challenged by the early Apple Mackintosh. Very different worlds, and very much still are.
Air farce was a fantastic show.
i wish we could go back
We've just come back from a holiday in Spain. My wife didn't really enjoy it, because everyone could speak English and all the food was like the stuff we eat back at home. She said, "next time I want to go somewhere where they eat weird shit and you can't understand a word they say." So I've just booked us a fortnight in Scotland.
I cried when that show ended, they were like part of the family! There's only 2 left Luba & Don Ferguson the rest are gone. See John Morgan do "Mike frm Canmore", that's in Alberta just east of Banff, I use to live there in the '80's, Manitoba too in the '90's now back home in Ontario! John Morgan was one of the best & we loved him! He's 'Mike from Canmore'! Check all their old clips out! They even had a chicken canon at New Years which was meant to whip out the stupid fads over the previous yr! Miss them!
Me too, nobody had such a handle on Canadian humour.
Mike from Canmore even turned up as a repairman on the space shuttle.
Ahh, I loved when these three got together in their coffee shop sketches and talked about daily politics
"You got that right."
"Tell me about it."
"Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah."
Saw the RCAF twice live, in an auditorium. Never laughed so hard in my life. They were even allowed to mock politicians & prime ministers. 🇨🇦
I did as well... at two different Air Force bases back in the 90s. I loved how they would roll into town a day or so early, spend time among the populace, getting the dirt and all the local gossip and rumours, and then turn around and incorporate it into the show for some wonderful local colour. I definitely miss that show.
Please react to more Royal Canadian Air Farce skits. Any of them. They were hilarious! They had such a dry wit about them.
Dave Broadfoot is from Royal Canadian Air Farce and he is satirically gifted in a very special Canadian way. Someone asked him what he would do if he won the lottery, to which he dead-panned; ‘I would farm until it was gone.’
"When I regained consciousness..."
@@silverjohn6037 ‘And then the suspect I was trying to arrest at the airport, jumped on the luggage conveyor belt and disappeared forever, just like my luggage’.
The lady in that piece is Luba Goy; she was born in 1945 in Germany to Ukrainian parents, and was raised in Ottawa Ontario from 1951. One of the cast members who wasn't in that piece was David Broadfoot. He did a long-running segment about Corporal Renfrew of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who, along with his incredible dog Cuddles, solved all sorts of ridiculously funny cases.
The Airr Farce started on CBC Radio, and I will argue that moving to television caused them to lose some of their lustre. But they were still amazing. Thanks for that sketch. I had nae seen it before.
Around 1978 or so, the Air Farce taped a couple of episodes for radio at the University of Regina. I was lucky enough to be there, and when Dave Broadfoot came onstage in his RCMP uniform, he was showing off his shoulder; he had been promoted by the head of the RCMP Academy in Regina, and when he got to the microphone, he announced for the radio audience, "This is SERGEANT Renfrew!" He got a standing ovation for his promotion. As time went on during the series, his sidekick Cuddles was also promoted to at least Corporal.
Oh, they were SO good on radio! I watched a couple of their tapings at the Cabbagetown Studio....in Cabbagetown! It was a theatre on Parliament St. in Toronto. They didn't have to create visual characters for radio, of course, which I think hampered them a bit on TV. On radio, just let your imagination go!
I agree that they were better on radio. Their imagination and writing knew no bounds. "Joe Clark Secret Agent" was such a great skit.
Ah, yes! Sergeant Renfrew of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and his common starter line "I was sitting in my lonely log cabin on the fourteenth floor of Mountie headquarters."
@@richardbell7678 .......with my incredible dog, Cuddles ........... 🐈
This is one I hadn't seen, so thank you for posting it.
Pretty much everything John Morgan did was hilarious, and when he died, so did much of the humor of the TV show.
I love the chicken cannon, especially the New Year’s ones.
IBM vs. Macintosh! 🤣
As a vintage computer collector, I can attest that there ARE pieces of hardware and software that were designed to bridge the gulf between those two clans. What brought them together in the end was the world wide web.
I think he meant Steve Jobs. No Jobs in Canada. This was super funny. Thanks!!!!
Within my father's family, he had both Scottish highland roots and Scottish lowland roots. There was a family joke about one group being the sheep thieves and the other the sheep shaggers.
You can also look for Royal Canadian Air Farce videos featuring Jock McBile - also very funny
I used to listen to this show on the radio, back when newspapers had a radio guide, similar to TV guide. It was always funny
Actually, the job reference at the end, was because that; at the time, Apple computers were rarely, if ever, seen as a work computer. Windows based systems dominated the market at around 80%+.
Depended on the business, i was in graphic and production art and mac was miles ahead in the industries
More TPB! You are missin out bud, I loved watching your react to S1E1, you have no idea how much the show just keeps getting better and better 🙏
'Jock Mcbile' was a great character with a skit called Get Stuffed on Royal Canadian Air Farce. Search for either 'Jock Mcbile' or 'Jock Mcbile Get Stuffed' and you should find his skits, they were great. Cheers from across the pond brother. :)
Oh man I loved that show growing up. I loved the chicken canon at the end of the episode
These guys tackled anything. In fact after an appropriate amount of time they tackled Lady Diana's death. I was one of her biggest fans and sobbed through her whole funeral BUT these guys found a way to honour it with humour. It was great!
Some of the actors come from Nova Scotia and may have got the accent from listening to their grandparents. ☺
On the show SCTV, Dave Thomas played a recurring character named Angus Crock, the greatest Blues singer in Scotland. Dave was also one of the two McKenzie brothers.
These actors are all from Canada's east coast where in some places Irish and Scottish Gaelic is still spoken.
The college at Antigonish has Gaelic classes.
They called it air farce for a reason!!! Classic sly humour. I loved it.
We listened with our children to them on the radio! Then enjoyed them on tv. Does anyone remember Second City TV, SCTV? That was great comedy too!
IBM versus Macintosh - too Funny!
Macintosh is also a variety of apple, one of the best when recently harvested, in my opinion.
God, I miss this show. Good times.
lmao I love this one. So funny. John Morgan (the dad) is Scottish descent. lol His accent would be perfect. lol
John Morgan's "Get Stuffed" sketches were hilarious. His Scottish accent is spot on.
Luba goy as the queen priceless
Hem, hem, hem.
Half of my family is from Scotland. Yes, there were jobs in Canada, back then. I didn't even notice any accent.
SNL (Saturday Night Live) used to have a skit called "All Things Scottish", about a shop that sold only Scottish goods. It features a character that Mike Myers played, so it counts as Canadian. I would suggest the skit with Kyle McLachlan in it.
If it’s not Scottish, it’s crap! I love that skit!
I kind of forgot about this show. I use to watch it all the time right up to the final season.
As others have said - the father in this sketch also had a regular personality on the show called Jacques McBile who talked of current events at the time & had a special phrase he used all the time - "Get Stuffed."
I don't know if there are any specific clips available of him in this persona on UA-cam - probably under Royal Canadian Air Farce - but not sure. (Sorry. ☺)
Mike Meyers did a perfect scot on SNL. If it's not Scottish, its craaap.
SCTV - Sunrise Semester - Angus Crock (Useful Scottish phrases) by Dave Thomas
I loved Air Farce and was probably one of the ones suggesting this skit to you at some point. As a computer geek, when I saw this skit the first time on TV, I was roaring. (Apparently it's a remake from their radio days when they did their skits on CBC Radio)
Loved them for too many Years to admit to...lol
John Morgan plays the father, Roger Abbott plays the son, Luba Goy is the mother. Not sure where Morgan and Abbott come from but Luba's of Ukranian descent I think. Great stuff. ❤❤
Mike from Canmore is the best skit they do.
Yes! I forgot that one. I’m Mike. From Canmore. Lol
That was a blast from the past.
You can find Angus Crock sketch from SCTV - one video is 8:43 in length and is titled: SCTV - Cookery Crock with Angus Crock
I like the Scottish accent, I moved to Canada in the late 80's and Royal Canadian Air Farce was very popular back then, I also worked with Scottish Canadians, and they used to teach me Scottish English, as a Spanish speaking person I could hear many similarities specially the rolling "RRRR".
Luba Goy was so funny. They all were. I used to like the donut shop skits- you got that right, , you bet…tell me about it, oh yeah. lol
That was very funny!
Man I remember that sketch as a kid in the 90's.
You missed the play on words around the MacIntosh variety of apple (“she’s the apple of my eye”) 😉
You watched an earlier one with the father dressed to the nines in a kilt and all that goes with it with that fabulous accent.
the "i hope so jamie because he sure as hell wont find any jobs" still hits hard 20+ years later lol
As a real Macintosh and a fan of the Air Farce I'm surprised I'd never seen this one! When my ancestors came to Canada in the 1830's they found their true loves by marrying other Scottish. Hence my name, several generations later, is likely as Scottish as anyone's in Scotland.
F.Y.I. Macintosh. Is actually a type of apple in Canada. Like , Ida Red, Delicious, Gala, Honeycrisp, Spartan, Golden Delicious, Red Delicious, Ambrosia, Granny Smith.
G-d! I miss this program!
Back in Canada's olden times when we still had telephone directories, the Mc's and Mac's filled far more pages than the Smiths and Jones'... I once met a Quebecer named Jean-Claude McPherson, he spoke nary a word of English. Likely a descendant of one of General Wolfe's soldiers who settled in Quebec.
And the Elliots: Pierre Elliot Trudeau. Many homesteaded in the Eastern Townships of Quebec.
Never in Scotland would you see two fires Burning in a Scottish house 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Robin Williams stand up act he has a section on how the Scots invented golf... it's pretty hilarious too!
At the time Air Farce was pretty benevolent family friendly humour. If you wanted something edgier/absurd it was Kids in the Hall.
The whole cast was in a cameo in The Red Green movie, check the diner scene.
Take care, and all the best.
I got a preferred episode... but it was the one I saw live. The Titanic skit was great but I can tell they didn't use our recording of it.
The "Get Stuffed" skit was great and the director made a joke about McBile having the minister of finance on speed dial and he came right back in character with a great reply.... I can't remember what it was though, this was back on '97
The royal Canadian Air farce started out back in the 1970's and had their beginnings on radio before moving to Television, or that is where I use to hear them before they were on any TV shows.
So interesting you said Macintosh could be a Canadian name too, because I'm born in Canada (65 now), and I'd call it a Scottish name, cause I connect the name with the colonial roots here, rather than it being a "Canadian name", lol.
you need to do shawn majubder interviewing a young sydney crosby shortly before crosbys first olympics
That one was brilliant! I also love one of Shaun's stand-up monologues about asking a Newfie for directions.
You ever see the Scottish Soccer Hooligan Weekly from SNL? Mike Myers and Mark McKinney (from Kids in the Hall) do your countryman proud.
When Two Irish Lads Meet a Newfoundlander
Davy Holden
The cleverness of the writing...and then to put a Scottish twist into it too. I only heard The Royal Canadian Air Farce on the radio. They transitioned to tv. A loooong time ago. 🇨🇦 So I've never seen or heard this one before.
I, too, grew up listening to them on the radio, and it is still my preferred medium. However, I was also a fan of the TV series, and they did a lot of great sketches.
Of the main male performers on the show when this skit was filmed (1996 I believe), one was born in Scotland, one in Wales, one in England and the last was named Ferguson. Getting the accents correct probably wasn't too much a stretch for them.
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Birkenhead, England (moved to Canada aged 7); Haltern, Germany (moved to Canada aged 6), and Aberdare, Wales (moved to Canada aged 27) are the birth locations of these three. It is the Welshman of the group, John Morgan, that is know for his great Scottish accent. His best know Scottish character is Jock McBile. This one, a piss take on my mother's side of the family, is a one off.
Ahaha I forgot about this show. 😅
Read the Founders auto-biography, it's pretty touching. Roger Abbot and Don Ferguson knew each other from grade school in Montreal. It all started there.
Kids in the hall- sctv for adults in the 90s -- those two- that's it (a few letterkenny bits) for our humor..really.
Scots Canadians are more Scottish than they are in the Auld country.
The Scottishness of Scots Canadians is more exaggerated for sure. Almost as if they were trying to prove something, either to themselves or to other people. Scots in Scotland, on the other hand, have nothing to prove to anyone. Ever.
So according to your racist beliefs to be born in Scotland is to be subhuman and inferior?
john Morgan who plays the father was born in Wales UK.
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Friday nights back in the day on CBC ..Air Farce..Codco..Kids in the Hall..
this was good
John who plays the part of the father is frm Scotland, that's original!
No, he was Welsh!
One of Air Farce's longest running bits, was "The Chicken Cannon". Eventually it became a regular bit where they ended every show taking literal shots at political targets with ironic ammunition, even taking viewer suggestions. It got pretty... perfunctory however.
What *I* want to see, and have not yet been able to find on UA-cam, is the FIRST chicken cannon sketch. The one that started it all... when it was so absurd even those seasoned comedy actors couldn't keep a straight face, near tears in almost-suppressed laughter. I haven't seen it since the day I watched it live on TV.
I think the most over the top Royal Canadian Air Farce skit was "Leonard Cohen's Suicide Christmas Song" which I think only played once during the holidays before it was deemed a bit too too much. The group started on the radio and in many ways were even better as a radio show.
Wasn't it promoting an entire ALBUM of songs to commit suicide by?? All Cohens' songs. Most Americans would't click that Leonard was a Canadian based in Montreal. They might not get the point!!
@@DwightStJohn-t7y Yes indeed it could have been a complete album of parody X-mas songs in the mold of K-tel.
Lots of influential Scots in Canadian history, our first 24 years were Scottish born PMs. It's one of the larger heritages claimed by Canadians and Scottish last names are common.
The air farce was hilarious. Check out their chicken cannon. I think their first one is where the actors were struggling (and failing) to keep a straight face.
Mike Myers does plenty of Scottish comedy. Not Canadian per se but check out Sir Patrick Stewart Scottish shop on SNL. "If it's nae Scottish, it's crap!!"
Growing up in BC back in the day it was hard to go a day without a Scottish accent around. Teachers, storekeepers, every third person it seemed in some places.
Welsh union business agents and bus drivers; Scotish insurance and car salemen and accountants, and UK Brit lawyers.
Hi there... love your videos. You should check out some of the NFB (National Film Board) short videos about Scottish stories in Canada. "The Grand Republic of Manitoba" is my particular favourite... and the settlement of Upper and Lower Fort Gary.
Have you watched the "Scottish Store " sketch with Dave Thomas from SCTV ?
If you like this one, you’ll love the “Get stuffed” skits. John Morgan did those too.
Air Farce had a series of sketches called Get Stuffed. I also loved their chicken cannon and Mike from Kenmore, and the politically correct fairytale sketches too. Honestly you can't go wrong watching any of their episodes. Canada has had and still has some of the best comedians and comedy shows. We love to laugh and most often poke fun at our own culture and stereotypes. I recommend some of Wayne and Schuster especially their Caesar sketch as well although it's not the Scottish element. I also recommend the Frantics, another Canadian comedy group that had some great sketches. You might recognize a few of the cast since you watched the Red Green Show a bit. I recommend the "Last will and Testament" (otherwise known as a boot to the head).
I told him "Julie don't go!"
I used to listen to the radio version and (unfortunately!). I can't hear anyone talk about cremation in any context without remembering Luba Goy quip "ODG, Mother's in the Hoover"
I think he meant Steve Jobs at the end!
Here's Air Farce's John Morgan as "Jock MacBile", in a sketch from '94 or '95. You should check it out.
A Canadian family invites their Scots relatives to visit and the first thing they do is take them to their cabin in Northern Ontario. When they arrive and step inside the Scots stop dead in their tracks , point at the Giant head on the far wall and shriek, "Wats dat on yonder wall" .
"Why that's a Canadian moose" came the reply. " Well iff'n that be a moose watrr yet Katz like"?😊