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Bye Bye was a Quebec sketch comedy that lasted for thirty years, from 1968 to 1998. Its full name changed as years passed (for example, Bye Bye 95).
The show was shown once a year, beginning at 11 O'Clock PM, on New Year's Eve. It parodied the political, artistic and sporting events of the year. There was a countdown to midnight seconds before and a Bonne Année! (Happy New Year) shouted by all at the moment when the New Year had arrived. During one hour at first, it was extended to one hour and a half with Bye Bye 90. For three decades, it had become a Quebec tradition to watch le Bye Bye at the New Year's Eve party. Thousands of Quebecers have wished Happy New Year to the end of the Bye Bye countdown.
A major yearly running gag of the show was usual castmember Dominique Michel promissing that this was her very last Bye Bye, which was never the case. One of the most memorable sketches was broadcast in 1970, with Olivier Guimond, one of Quebec's most respected comics, portraying a drunk soldier in Westmount, with social commentary on the October Crisis that had occured the very same year.
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