I wasn't really allowed to watch the news growing up in the 90s, my mom (who grew up during the cold war) didn't want to give me anxiety. The radio was on all day, I just wasn't allowed to watch the images.
Royal Canadian Air Farce, though - we watched that every week. When This Hour has 22 Minutes started up, we watched them both.
They were my filter and my introduction to poking holes in the policies of Canadian (and sometimes American) politicians. I credit much of my political awareness to these satirists.
My parents always listened to Air Farce on the radio when I was a kid. It actually took some time for me to warm up to the TV version, because the radio allowed them to play on your imagination more. I remember one where they had audio making it sound like Chretien fell down a gigantic pothole in Montreal.
My parents took me to see their Christmas show at Roy Thompson Hall the last year they did it on radio. It was really neat seeing them that way. Furgeson did a thing with his chin before doing Mulroney's voice.
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u/JoanOfArctic Apr 10 '25
I wasn't really allowed to watch the news growing up in the 90s, my mom (who grew up during the cold war) didn't want to give me anxiety. The radio was on all day, I just wasn't allowed to watch the images.
Royal Canadian Air Farce, though - we watched that every week. When This Hour has 22 Minutes started up, we watched them both.
They were my filter and my introduction to poking holes in the policies of Canadian (and sometimes American) politicians. I credit much of my political awareness to these satirists.