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Conan the obnoxious; berates audience for laughing with Triumph segment
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| 02/14/04
| The Star
Posted on 02/14/2004 11:45:21 AM PST by Pikamax
Feb. 14, 2004. 01:00 AM
Conan the obnoxious
In an editorial yesterday, we praised U.S. talk-show host Conan O'Brien for bringing his program here and featuring lots of Canadian talent.
Well, we spoke far too soon.
The editorial went to press before Thursday's episode was broadcast. Had we known the mean-spirited content of that instalment of NBC's Late Night With Conan O'Brien, we never would have invited him to return anytime.
The program featured a nasty segment taped in Quebec city in which the show's obnoxious canine hand puppet stopped unsuspecting residents in the street and crudely insulted them for being francophone.
It wasn't just poking fun, it wasn't clever it was hateful and, yes, racist.
O'Brien would never have dared such a stunt at home in New York City with American Hispanics or Jews. Not a chance.
Many Canadians will dismiss O'Brien as an out-of-touch American who doesn't realize how sensitive French-English issues are here.
What is truly appalling, however, was the reaction of the audience at Toronto's Elgin Theatre. Most members laughed wildly at the crude anti-French jokes. Earlier in the week, the crowd, many their 20s, booed the mention of singer Céline Dion.
Regrettably, French-bashing is once again becoming all too prevalent in English Canada, and in Toronto. It is as if all the efforts over the past 25 years by both anglophones and francophones to ease tensions between the two groups was a waste of time for these young Canadians, who you would think would be more tolerant in multi-ethnic Toronto.
Taxpayers chipped in $1 million to bring the show here. We welcomed O'Brien to our turf and fawned over him. In return, we were repaid with ill-mannered conduct.
Goodbye, Conan. Don't come back soon.
TOPICS: Canada; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
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To: Pikamax
The Triumph skit was the funniest thing I have ever seen on Conan.
To: gcruse
That is the french scum that was bashing Bush on the street and gave the finger to Triumph...
To: StatesEnemy
Since when are the French a "race"?They lost the race!!
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posted on
02/14/2004 1:51:08 PM PST
by
hgro
To: Paul Atreides
Druggies are "headphones".
To: Paul Atreides
He didn't need to. We already have our own petulant and obnoxious comedians making ignorant remarks about Americans on taxpayer-supported TV.
To: katana
Newfoundland is Canada's answer to the Deep South. Everything they do is regarded as an object of derision, and "stupid Newfie" "jokes" are a dime a dozen. Because they're mostly white, mostly Christian, and mostly live in traditional, non-urban communities, the elitists in Montreal and Toronto make fun of them as much as they feel fit.
To: Pikamax
It is OK. All the nasty, dirty, crude, scruffy or arrogant French Canadians are in Florida this week bitching about the exchange rate and all the Spanish speakers, so they won't notice.
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posted on
02/14/2004 2:20:08 PM PST
by
Tacis
To: Senormechanico
And Democrats with a small "package" are microphones.
48
posted on
02/14/2004 2:23:20 PM PST
by
Johnny_Cipher
(Making hasenfeffer out of bunnyrabbits since 1980)
To: Pikamax
This editorial is great.... For me to poop on!
To: Libertarian444; Pikamax
I love the way the French Canadians are all in a tizzy because they've been insulted
by a sock puppet!!!LOL!!!
50
posted on
02/15/2004 2:20:05 AM PST
by
Dajjal
To: Bob J
"Obviously, the Francophones are a "protected" liberal group in Canada. No making funny noises around them..."
Just makes you want to fart in Quebec's general direction.
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posted on
02/16/2004 3:43:38 AM PST
by
Levante
To: StatesEnemy
By Dictionary Definitions, the French, Germans, English etc. constitute different races.
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posted on
02/16/2004 3:46:05 AM PST
by
Cronos
(W2K4!)
To: Dan from Michigan
The French is a race? Last I checked they were Caucasian, albeit the weakest of the Caucasians.......
Arabs are Caucasians as well....
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posted on
02/16/2004 3:46:51 AM PST
by
Cronos
(W2K4!)
To: Destro
How can it be racist? French Canadians are as White as Conan is and as white as the hand that holds the puppet. You are all the same race dimwits.
Here's the dictionary definition of race from http://www.bartleby.com/61/39/R0003900.html
Race NOUN:
1. A local geographic or global human population distinguished as a more or less distinct group by genetically transmitted physical characteristics. 2. A group of people united or classified together on the basis of common history, nationality, or geographic distribution: the German race. 3. A genealogical line; a lineage. 4. Humans considered as a group. 5. Biology a. An interbreeding, usually geographically isolated population of organisms differing from other populations of the same species in the frequency of hereditary traits. A race that has been given formal taxonomic recognition is known as a subspecies. b. A breed or strain, as of domestic animals. 6. A distinguishing or characteristic quality, such as the flavor of a wine.
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posted on
02/16/2004 3:49:02 AM PST
by
Cronos
(W2K4!)
To: HHFi
No, but if you insulted Jews in Paris, I bet you'd get big laughs from the French.
I don't think so. They have stringent anti-semitic laws. However, whenArabs are the ones doing the insulting it is ignored -- maybe because Arabs are semites too... ;-P
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posted on
02/16/2004 3:50:16 AM PST
by
Cronos
(W2K4!)
To: Pikamax
Hey, Canuck-Frenchies! Why don't you go call a WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMBULANCE?
56
posted on
02/16/2004 3:55:44 AM PST
by
albee
To: Bullish
I couldn't agree more, and we shouda annexed canada years ago, all except for that teeny tiny area that considers itself french.
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posted on
02/16/2004 3:56:05 AM PST
by
wita
(truthspeaks@freerepublic.com)
To: My Favorite Headache
58
posted on
02/16/2004 4:02:37 AM PST
by
FreedomPoster
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To: Johnny_Cipher
Speaking of your tagline, my wife and I have a standing joke about Hasenpfeffer. I don't think we made it right, because we now call it vinegar rabbit.
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posted on
02/16/2004 4:04:52 AM PST
by
wita
(truthspeaks@freerepublic.com)
To: swampfox98
Me, too.
60
posted on
02/16/2004 4:06:51 AM PST
by
hershey
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