The Vestibules

The Vestibules, formerly known as Radio Free Vestibule, is a Canadian comedy troupe composed of Terence Bowman, Paul Paré, and Bernard Deniger.

Based in Montreal, 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. 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.

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 who had been inspired by the legendary supergroup Sharon, Lois, Bram and Young. 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. 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".

In 1992, the troupe were given their own weekly series on CBC Radio, as a summer replacement for Royal Canadian Air Farce. In the fall, they returned to Prime Time for the show's final season. After Prime Time's 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.

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