Rejoice!

The Royal Canadian Air Farce is finally going off the air! This show hasn't been funny since...well, it's never been funny.

Unfortunately, people who want to hear the exact same terrible jokes every week will now have to find other means of entertaining themselves. Considering the fact that Airfarce's idea of "Entertainment" is roughly equivalent to Civilization at Large's idea of "Legalized Torture", it shouldn't be too hard to entertain these people.

Hey, CBC, I have an idea for a replacement show for "Air Farce" that is so close to how watching the show makes me feel, I doubt ardent fans will even notice its absence. It's called, "Five Minutes of Administering Electrical Shocks to Your Genetalia, Followed by a Commercial for Advil. Repeat for 30 Minutes."

The only real reason to watch Air Farce voluntarily is if you want to feel sympathy embarrassment for 30 solid minutes. Once, I even saw a skit that attempted to parody Dharma and Greg using the exact same setup from an episode of Family Guy. The fact that Air Farce stole from Family Guy puts into perspective exactly how tactless and vulgar this show is (was). Air Farce is a scourge on the souls of the people of our great nation.

The skits on Air Farce were usually so terrible that I sometimes wondered if the fact that the skits were terrible was actually the purpose of the comedy in the show. Viewed as a satire of sketch comedy, this show is hilarious and brilliant. Unfortunately, it is not a satire and thus the show is boneheaded and pathetic.

So, I say to you, Air Farce: good riddance and may there never be re-runs of your terrible episodes.

Now, there remains only one more cancerous tumour to be excised: "This hour Has 22 Minutes". Considering how incredibly funny this show was at one time, it is a tragedy that it's bloated, rotting corpse continues to be raped year after year by a cast of foolish clowns. It is now obviously laugh tracked, and it has turned into the same sort of dead-eyed, uninspired "humorous commentary" that it used to mock in many of it's skits.

Also, "Mercer Report", I'm putting you on notice. Don't think I can't tell you're not actually telling good jokes. All the wry, knowing smiles in the world can't cover up the complete lack of inspiration in the writing of your show.

Rick Mercer, you have sacrificed your acerbic wit and ability to violently skewer the political elite of this country for the opportunity to hobnob with them, which is not funny. Your attempts to humanize our politicians are stupid and misguided. We all know politicians are inhuman monsters, and no amount of skinny dipping with Bob Rae is going to change our minds of that fact. If anything, seeing his terrific nude affinity for the water will only give us more reason to suspect that he is an amphibious frog man.

Stop trying to make a difference, Rick Mercer. Your misguided mission to convince Canadians that their politicians are something other than unholy beasts is futile.

Canadians are smart. We know that undeneath those poorly conceived human skins of theirs, Canadian politicians are nothing more than formless, cannibalistic blobs or worse, an amalgam of killer bees, pooling their single ganglion of intelligence into a super brain that no human man can rival for cleverness and insectile ruthlessness.

Why do you think voter turnout was so low in the last election? When the only choice we have is between "Sadistic Cyborg" and "Supernatural Papier Mache Tyrannosaurus Rex", well sir, that's not a choice voters are keen on making. (Although, unlike 50% of you lazy bums, I did my civic duty and voted for Sadistic Cyborg. I liked his economic policies.)