catbirdseat Posted February 13, 2004 Posted February 13, 2004 Just when it was becoming chic to be Canadian, along comes Conan O'Brien to ruffle the feathers of the Quebecois. Quote
Thadsboner Posted February 13, 2004 Posted February 13, 2004 junior government minister Mauril Belanger told Parliament. Is this like a "take your kids to work day position" or just a junior ranger camp this guy is in? Quote
Kiwi Posted February 13, 2004 Posted February 13, 2004 I don't see the problem. I thought Americans were supposed to be the uptight ones. Quote
cracked Posted February 13, 2004 Posted February 13, 2004 Conan is a dick, but he always has been. I never watch that show. Quote
murraysovereign Posted February 13, 2004 Posted February 13, 2004 I saw this bit last night, and wasn't too impressed. If it had been funny I could see it as "biting satire" or some such. But it was utterly unfunny, and revolved around deliberately insulting people simply for the sake of insulting people. I can understand how people are unhappy about it, particularly since NBC used Canadian tax dollars to pay for it. Quote
Lars Posted February 13, 2004 Posted February 13, 2004 so its ok when conan is dissing americans, french, germans, or anyone else...but how dare he say anything bad about canada Quote
fern Posted February 13, 2004 Posted February 13, 2004 it was utterly unfunny unlike Ron McLean's joke: "Don Cherry is all for French Immersion, he just thinks they don't hold them down long enough" Quote
ashw_justin Posted February 14, 2004 Posted February 14, 2004 (edited) Well god forbid the Quebecois not having something to be pissed off about... Edited February 14, 2004 by ashw_justin Quote
bunglehead Posted February 14, 2004 Posted February 14, 2004 Dog puppets just go too far sometimes!! Quote
philfort Posted February 14, 2004 Posted February 14, 2004 Hmm... I didn't think it was that insulting. I'm embarrassed those canadian govt officials are so uptight! It wasn't very funny compared to other Triumph segments though. Quote
scrambled_legs Posted February 14, 2004 Posted February 14, 2004 Conan is wacked, twisted and demented. I can't believe anyone on here is upset about that. They had one part on the show where they had the little Quebec children eating the frozen maple sugar on a stick. Then they had Truimph (dog puppet) piss in the snow and the little kids eating it. I don't think I ever laughed so hard at a late night show. I thought he did go overboard with the being obnoxious because you're French. I was kinda surprised at that cause it was just a straight out insult and not even funny, which made me kinda laugh at the same time as going holy crap the French would kill him if they weren't so quick to surrender. I mean really he had a good point. When the one man was yelling at him for not speaking French he started yelling back to wake up and look at where he was living. It was like everything that us Westerners want to say but are too afraid of our Country getting divided over it. We just paid $750,000 to have someone from the U.S. do it. This way, when Quebec has their hissy fit, we can just say it was an ignorant American and we don't feel that way at all. Meanwhile we can chuckle as we think back to the look on thier faces as we replaced their French only signs with something that we should both be able to understand. Quote
philfort Posted February 14, 2004 Posted February 14, 2004 Actually the yellow snow thing was pretty funny... as was the separation from doughnuts remark... The only annoying thing was he was applying European French stereotypes (obnoxious, stinky, surrendering, etc...) to Quebecois. Typical British ignorance ... uh, I mean American ignorance. Quote
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