seems to have gotten some french canadian panties in a bunch.....
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog Enrages Canada
I'm sorry for the long post, but this story is absolutely hilarious!
"Canada's government on Friday condemned a show by U.S. late-night television host Conan O'Brien that insulted people in French-speaking Quebec and seemed to suggest everyone in the province was homosexual," reports Reuters.
"At one point in the show, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog -- a hand puppet that is a regular on the show -- said to a Quebecer: 'You're French, you're obnoxious and you no speekay English.' It told another: 'I can smell your crotch from here.'"
"O'Brien's team were also shown replacing street signs in the province with those that read 'Quebecqueer Street' and 'Rue des Pussies.'"
The Toronto Star reports that Canadian officials were even less amused.
"In Ottawa, Mauril Belanger - the deputy government house leader - told the House of Commons that the government finds nothing amusing about the NBC show host making fun of Quebecers."
"NDP MP Alexa McDonough said the sketch featuring Triumph the Insult Comic Dog was 'vile and vicious' and amounted to hate-mongering and that the feds should demand their money back."
"'The whole point of trying to help deal with the devastation of the SARS crisis on the city of Toronto was to attract tourists,' McDonough said. 'How it got morphed into this kind of garbage I don't know.'"
"[O]n the Thursday show, Late Night regular Triumph - a cigar-chomping, politically incorrect puppet - was dispatched to the Quebec winter carnival in a pre-taped segment that took on Quebecers in general and separatists in particular."
"'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.
Toronto Star TV columnist Bill Brioux captured the hilarity of the situation.
"Talk about puppets who kill. Triumph, as performed by writer Robert Smigel, is a cheesy, rubber Rottweiler hand puppet who smokes a cigar, sounds like Ricky Ricardo on crack and barks insults at everyone within range."
"It was funnier than any new show we saw for this spring."
"But it is hard to imagine any francophone Canadian laughing today. Triumph's whole act is to find the nerve and hit it. Last night, he picked away at a scab that never quite heals in this country. Bad dog."
"A translator then had the brutal task of insulting these Carnival goers in their own tongue."
"One couple showed the dog their backs."
"'You're in North America -- learn the language,' Triumph heckled."
"And later: 'Are you separatists? Listen carefully: Do you hear that? It's the sound of nobody giving a crap.'"
"'I thought Babar lived in Paris,' Triumph goofed on one tubby."
"'Are you a separatist? Maybe you should try separating yourself from doughnuts first.'"
"Maybe this stuff kills Stateside where they're still smarting from France's firm 'non' to the war in Iraq. That would explain this crack: 'I only know the basic French expressions -- like, 'I surrender.' "
"Heaping insult on injury: 'You're like the Canada of Canada.'"
- posted by Chris @ 11:35 PM .....
if you are familiar with triumph,you know the french canadians actually got off easy....
http://www.triumphtheinsultcomicdog.com/
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog Enrages Canada
I'm sorry for the long post, but this story is absolutely hilarious!
"Canada's government on Friday condemned a show by U.S. late-night television host Conan O'Brien that insulted people in French-speaking Quebec and seemed to suggest everyone in the province was homosexual," reports Reuters.
"At one point in the show, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog -- a hand puppet that is a regular on the show -- said to a Quebecer: 'You're French, you're obnoxious and you no speekay English.' It told another: 'I can smell your crotch from here.'"
"O'Brien's team were also shown replacing street signs in the province with those that read 'Quebecqueer Street' and 'Rue des Pussies.'"
The Toronto Star reports that Canadian officials were even less amused.
"In Ottawa, Mauril Belanger - the deputy government house leader - told the House of Commons that the government finds nothing amusing about the NBC show host making fun of Quebecers."
"NDP MP Alexa McDonough said the sketch featuring Triumph the Insult Comic Dog was 'vile and vicious' and amounted to hate-mongering and that the feds should demand their money back."
"'The whole point of trying to help deal with the devastation of the SARS crisis on the city of Toronto was to attract tourists,' McDonough said. 'How it got morphed into this kind of garbage I don't know.'"
"[O]n the Thursday show, Late Night regular Triumph - a cigar-chomping, politically incorrect puppet - was dispatched to the Quebec winter carnival in a pre-taped segment that took on Quebecers in general and separatists in particular."
"'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.
Toronto Star TV columnist Bill Brioux captured the hilarity of the situation.
"Talk about puppets who kill. Triumph, as performed by writer Robert Smigel, is a cheesy, rubber Rottweiler hand puppet who smokes a cigar, sounds like Ricky Ricardo on crack and barks insults at everyone within range."
"It was funnier than any new show we saw for this spring."
"But it is hard to imagine any francophone Canadian laughing today. Triumph's whole act is to find the nerve and hit it. Last night, he picked away at a scab that never quite heals in this country. Bad dog."
"A translator then had the brutal task of insulting these Carnival goers in their own tongue."
"One couple showed the dog their backs."
"'You're in North America -- learn the language,' Triumph heckled."
"And later: 'Are you separatists? Listen carefully: Do you hear that? It's the sound of nobody giving a crap.'"
"'I thought Babar lived in Paris,' Triumph goofed on one tubby."
"'Are you a separatist? Maybe you should try separating yourself from doughnuts first.'"
"Maybe this stuff kills Stateside where they're still smarting from France's firm 'non' to the war in Iraq. That would explain this crack: 'I only know the basic French expressions -- like, 'I surrender.' "
"Heaping insult on injury: 'You're like the Canada of Canada.'"
- posted by Chris @ 11:35 PM .....
if you are familiar with triumph,you know the french canadians actually got off easy....
http://www.triumphtheinsultcomicdog.com/
