Conan In Canada
Those crazy Canucks seem to enjoy it. The sequence with Conan at the toll booth was pretty darned funny. I missed Mike Meyers. Did Mikey do a good job?
Edit: sorry to the rest of the world, I speak of none other than Conan O'Brien, talk show host....he's normally in New York City but this week he was in Toronto, Canada.
Edit: sorry to the rest of the world, I speak of none other than Conan O'Brien, talk show host....he's normally in New York City but this week he was in Toronto, Canada.
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I'll try and find a link in a second.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...anada_conan_dc
that aside, they were all hilarious
Of course, I have no idea what percentage of people in Canada are actually the whiny bitches that are in the news right now, but I'm sure no one will be talking about it in a month.
I think the first ep was the best of the 4. Mike was great, but most of the humour is targeted at the Canadian and more specifically the Toronto audience. Not sure how well the Toronto stop is doing in the states, but i assume not so well.
The segment at the border was good, but not as funny as when he went to practice with the leafs.
Triumph's segment in Quebec was very funny, but apparently many were offended, i was laughing. They actually took that part out during the re-broadcast due to complaints.
Anyway i've thoroughly enjoyed Conan's stop in Toronto. Maybe it will be the start of a trend?
I thought that you where refering to Conan the barbarian. Anyway i am confident if such a dumbass will lurk in Canada, Murbot will kick his ass out of Canuckland
These people just blow my mind, I mean, it's not like they didn't know what kind of show Late Night with Conan O'Brien was. For crying out loud, this is the same show that has the Masturbating Bear. Toronto paid Conan to come. He came. He did what he does. People enjoyed it, it gave Toronto some publicity and some name recognition.
But of course, someone is always going to bitch.
In regard to the Quebecois being miffed at the show poking fun at them, it isn't like they haven't painted themselves as petulant foot-stompers. Protect and preserve their cultural heritage? Absolutely! Be whiney little schoolgirls about it? Wait'll we catch you on the comedy playground!
Oh yeah! They had a limbo contest between the Seattle Space Needle and the Toronto something-or-other (which is apparently taller). The space needle won the contest, but the Toronto tower picked up a chair and broke it over the Seattle tower's back. Kind of funny.
I prefer Pimp-bot 5000.
One is funny the other is an idiot.
"So you're French and Canadian, yes? So you're obnoxious and dull," the puppet told one passerby. "You're in North America, learn the language," he hollered at another.
When one couple confirmed they were separatists the puppet said, "Listen closely. Hear that? It's the sound of no one giving a -" followed by an expletive bleep.
Comedy Gold!
Idiot? Uh-un, pretty savvy guy actually.
He is a redneck and I am sorry that his fans look up to him and perhaps make decisions that could affect their personnal safety. Wearing a visor has no bearing on the toughness of a player... Hell, just ask tie domi...
I think that the people who may have been offended probably are not familiar with Conan and did not actually see the show. Conan is all about comedy and he dishes it out pretty evenly. In any case, the Insult Dog is not a skit where the insults are all that funny in and of themselves - actually, the individual comments are pretty lame. Instead, what is supposed to be funny is that you have this Dog randomly insulting passers-by. It's concept comedy - and unless you key in on the concept, you are left wondering why anyone would laugh.
That being said, I wonder if Conan was all that well-advised to put that sort of comedy into a situation involving regional and ethnic sensitivities. And while Conan dishes it out pretty evenly, I wonder if he could actually get away with something analogous in the U.S. For example, could he bring his show on the road to the Southern States and do the same skit having the Dog say - to Southerners -
"So you're from the Southern U.S.? Yes? So you're backward and overbearing," the puppet tells one passerby. "You're in America - learn to speak without a drawl," he hollers at another.
When one couple confirms they think that the Civil War could be called a war of aggression by the North - the puppet says, "Listen closely. Hear that? It's the sound of no one giving a -" followed by an expletive bleep.*
Could that play as comedy on network T.V. in the U.S.? If it did, would it raise any negative comments?
(*please note - to avoid any offense such as seems to have been caused to some here in Canada - I am not making these insults - I am just trying to consider an theoretical analogy here)
He made this sketch at Lyon (his city), who has a huge story of rivaltry with grenoble over centuries.
Even if i am a big fan of Fernand Raynaud, i think that it was one of his worst speech. And i don't say that because i was born and lived for years in Grenoble (Crolles the famous fab, is near Grenoble), but because this kind of sketche is lame. In fact i never see this sketch, he was quickly forgetten.
All humorist have their bad moments.
And don't look at me like that. You know it's true.
If you go to www.triumphtheinsultcomicdog.com/ you can go watch a raft of videos of past interviews by the insult comic dog (in case you are unfamiliar with his act - PowerDoc should go see it). He is supposed to be like Don Rickles doing his stage act....rougher than what you'd see on television. Don't miss the Star Wars Geek interviews down near the bottom.
I'll bet that the unexpected benefit of Conan's visit North Of The Border was increased ratings. Let's see if they decide to ship him somewhere else during the May Sweeps.