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The Vestibules, formerly known as Radio Free Vestibule, is a Canadian surrealist comedy troupe composed of Terence Bowman, Paul Paré, and Bernard Deniger.〔"Fringe trio moves mainstream - with elbows". ''Montreal Gazette'', April 19, 1990.〕 ==Career== Based in Montreal,〔"Radio Free Vestibule set to tickle Montreal funnybones". ''Montreal Gazette'', November 12, 1988.〕 the trio began performing in 1987.〔 Students at Montreal's Concordia University, they performed in Montreal-area comedy clubs and produced a radio comedy program for CKUT-FM.〔 They had songs played on the syndicated ''Dr. Demento'' radio show.〔"CBC Olympic TV team will be a lean machine competing with the best". ''Montreal Gazette'', August 10, 1988.〕 and soon began appearing on CBC Radio's ''Prime Time'', beginning with occasional parody songs and later expanding to a twice-weekly sketch comedy segment;〔 in April 1990, the program gave them a full half-hour special.〔"Surreal sounds from the Vestibule". ''Toronto Star'', April 7, 1990.〕 The trio were known primarily for absurdist comedy based on pop culture, and resisted humor that was too explicitly political.〔 One sketch which aired on ''Prime Time'' in 1990 actually satirized Canadian radio comedy's predilection for political humor, by means of a sketch which featured an audience laughing uproariously at a reference to Meech Lake in the punchline to a deliberately unfunny "anti-joke".〔 One of their most famous pieces was "Jellybabies Forever", a mockumentary about the rise and fall of a children's music group〔"The radio waves are getting weird". ''The Globe and Mail'', July 25, 1992.〕 who had been inspired by the legendary supergroup Sharon, Lois, Bram and Young.〔"Comedy trio makes pitch to move to small screen". ''Ottawa Citizen'', May 15, 1995.〕 Their satirical songs included "I Don't Want to Go to Toronto", a parody of Toronto's uptight and elitist image, and "Grunge Song", a parody of early 1990s songwriting which was frequently shown on MuchMusic.〔"The Grunge Song video an artful send-up from RFV". ''Montreal Gazette', July 5, 1995.〕 Another sketch with rare political overtones was "Looking for a Job in Quebec", in which a nervous anglophone insisted that his surname, O'Leary, was pronounced "Thibodeau".〔"Waiting for good news in the Vestibule". ''The Globe and Mail'', May 6, 1995.〕 In 1992, the troupe were given their own weekly series on CBC Radio, as a summer replacement for ''Royal Canadian Air Farce''.〔"Radio Free, you're up; Talented comic trio jumps from Prime Time to its own weekly show". ''Halifax Daily News'', June 29, 1992.〕 In the fall, they returned to ''Prime Time'' for the show's final season.〔 After ''Prime Times cancellation, their sketches continued to appear on the CBC Radio programs ''Basic Black'' and ''Night Lines'',〔 and on follow-up seasons of their summer series.〔"From Vestibule to centre stage; Trio of Montreal comics makes it big on disc, TV - and, of course, radio". ''Montreal Gazette'', March 6, 1995.〕 In 1993, the trio appeared in a segment on A&E's ''Comedy on the Road'', as part of a series of specials taped at the Just for Laughs Festival,〔"Southern exposure: Comedy Nest jokers to be featured on A&E". ''Montreal Gazette'', July 17, 1993.〕 and garnered a Gemini Award nomination for Best Comedy Performance for their appearance in CBC Television's ''Just for Laughs'' special.〔"Vestibules at home in funny business". ''Windsor Star'', May 29, 1997.〕 In 1994, they collaborated with former ''Prime Time'' host Geoff Pevere on ''X-Ray Vision'', a television comedy pilot which aired as a special on CTV but was not picked up as a permanent series.〔"Montreal comedy troupe warms up the ponies; CTV's X-Ray Vision isn't very penetrating but has its moments". ''Montreal Gazette'', May 8, 1994.〕 In 1995, they appeared on CBC Television's ''Comics!'',〔 released their first comedy album ''Sketches, Songs and Shoes'',〔"Faces from the comic airwaves Radio Free Vestibule wired for live audience". ''Toronto Star'', April 13, 1995.〕 and became regular contributors to ''Definitely Not the Opera''.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Vestibules」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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