Conan’s Triumph

The American Spectator ^ | February16, 2004 | Colby Cosh

[rllngrk33]

Some of the Canucks just need to get a sense of humor

[per loin]

Quebec exists in a state of constant rage over being merely a French speaking ghetto in an English speaking Canada, which is just a suburb of the US.

[mwyounce]

I remember a comedian many years ago describing Montreal this way...

Montreal: A city in Canada, an hour from the United States, where they speak French and have the Queen of England on their money.

[Lancey Howard]

Wow. I never heard of Colby Cosh before, but he (?) is a very, very good writer.

If you plow money into health prevention, it works only if nothing bad happens; and it's hard for a politician to take credit for an absence of catastrophe. Much easier, really, to bribe a famous American television show to move north for a week and let people see their compatriots on U.S. teevee. We must be important -- we're on after Leno!

Great stuff!

[Lucas McCain]

Canada exists merely to store all our extra trees.

[GeronL]

The people who are stamping their feet over the antics of a hand puppet are, I think, genuinely confused disturbed

[zipper]

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog official videos

[Porterville]

What is Canada? Is that near Michigan? I thought it was just a bunch of snow and polar bears. Is there a nation North of Washington? I never knew.

[JoJo Gunn]

"Even the Kucinich voters with braided beards and BUSH KNEW tattoos...."

Such imagery.

[cartoonistx]

Quebec exists in a state of constant rage over being merely a French speaking ghetto in an English speaking Canada, which is just a suburb of the US.

As Triumph said it's "the Canada of Canada!"

[Afro_conservative]

I love conan and I will continue to watch his show

[AmishDude]

It's interesting that Canadian cabinet ministers have seen fit to put themselves on par with a puppet. Then again . . .

Has Mark Steyn weighed in on this yet?

[skr]

...Jim Carrey...None of these people made their names by going over the top.

He didn't?

[Cinnamon Girl]

"Calm down, everyone, please, calm down! Canada is a great country. The greatest country in the world.......... for me to poop on."

(by the way, isn't it homophobic of the Canadians to get all angry about the implication that they might be homosexuals?)

[MattAMiller]

You might like his blog.

[Lancey Howard]

Thanks for the link!
Great blog - - I already posted a thread from it re: the crazy "gun registry".

[Calvin Locke]

We've heard of Don Rickles. We're not complete idiots

Lousy analysis. Should be "We're not complete hockey pucks."

Gotta give US readers (old enough for the commercial, heck, old enough to remember who Don is, besides the guy in the
war movie with Dirty Harry) something other than idiots.

Of course, that just brings back memories of Cretin, er, Chretien, and his lackey that called Bush an idiot.

[Chunga]

Conan's show mocks the processes of television comedy.

Taking offense at it requires a level of cultural retardation only the Quebecois could muster.

[TheMole]

Lots more of him here:

www.colbycosh.com