The Irrelevant Show

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The Irrelevant Show was a half-hour sketch comedy show aired on CBC Radio One, initially broadcast Saturday afternoons during the third hour of Definitely Not the Opera starting in 2003. Early in 2004 it was given a slot of its own late Saturday mornings for a short series of nine shows, and in 2005 returned as a recurring comedy show broadcast as part of DNTO.

The shows were recorded in front of a live audience at the Stanley A. Milner Library Theatre in Edmonton. Typical sketches from the series commented humorously on popular culture in some way, with sketches like Bionic Centurion Trucker, the helpline operator for The Matrix computer system, or the mock expose on the Salvation Army's Special Forces unit.

The cast included Wes Borg, Jana O'Connor, Paul Mather, Mark Meer and Donovan Workun, all of whom have worked with or wrote for previous comedy troupes, including Atomic Improv, the CTV sitcom Corner Gas, the improvised soap opera Die-Nasty, improv/sketch troupe Gordon's Big Bald Head, the CBC television show This Hour Has 22 Minutes and the comedy-musical group Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie.

Writers for the show included Wes Borg, Paul Mather, Dean Jenkinson, and Mark Meer.