pinzo

Here's some light humor I found on the internet featuring William Shatner (a born Canadian) taking off the Molson Canadian parodies...enjoy it...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...99236995630598

hot wasabi peas

Thanks for that! I had never seen the video of that, just the audio.

My sister's dude is a Quebecer and she sent me this a while ago:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...m+not+canadian

windward

Roffle

Very very good! I'll add Mr Shatner to my massive list of tremendously famous Canadian people that everyone assumes are Yanks.

pinzo

Glad you like the Shatner video and thanks for the Quebec version of the Molson Ad parodies
Yes there are lots of famous celebs that we all too often think are American when in actual fact they were born Canadians.....

Jim Carrey (born in Ontario)
Pamela Anderson (born in BC)
Matthew Perry (Chandler from Friends - not born Canadian but brought up in Ottawa)

...just a few that I know of.
Anyone know of anymore??????

iaink

Oh God, theres a whole list here somewhere. "Famous Canadians" thread started by dbd in his ignorance.


Mike Myers, is a good old Scarbourough Boy.
Keanu Reeves, raised in TO, but not born here.
Michael J Fox
Dan Ackroyd

That Guy from you know, the movie....what was his name? He's canadian too.

Butch Cassidy

MJ Fox
and
The guy who played Scotty in Star Trek

Calgal

Martin Short
Steve Martin
John Candy
Celine Dion
Graham Greene
Donald Sutherland
Kiefer Sutherland
Raymond Burr
Christopher Plummer
Leslie Nielsen
Catherine O'Hara (mum in "Home Alone" movies)
Nellie Furtado
KD Lang
Deborah Cox
Holly Cole
Corey Hart
Sarah McLachlan
Burton Cummings (the guess who)
Joni Mitchell
Alanis Morrissette
Avril Lavigne
Ann Murray


To name just a few......

(I reckon if you took all the Canadians out of the entertainment industry - there wouldn't be many left...lol)

Butch Cassidy

You googled,

iaink

if you have to explain who they are (in brackets) then they dont count.

Ann Murray is surely only famous in canada too? and Cory Hart is probably marginal in Canada. Bret Hart is probably a better bet for international recognition

Steve_P

and Oscar Peterson (Jazz pianist) to add one more.

windward

I've been told by reliable sources that it's all part of a plot for Canada to take over the world.

Force all other nations out of the Entertainment business, reap the financial rewards, and subvert the masses of every other english-speaking nation on the planet via the respect and adoration lavished through the culture of celebrity-worship.

OK!, Hello, Grazia, all will soon become conduits for the revolution, ingeniously bypassing intellectuals, power-brokers and policymakers alike, and striking straight at the proletariat to allow for a socialist putsch in the truly old style.

You just wait and see.

.... Oh, and isn't Jennifer Aniston a Canuck?

pinzo

...I think she's American, but someone correct me if I'm wrong, (useless information always comes in handy!)

windward

Nah you're right mate. Californian.

Whereabouts in Cov are you? I'm just down the road in *coughs* Nuneaton

hot wasabi peas

Douglas Coupland
Anne of Green Gables
Naomi Klein
David Cronenberg
James Cameron
'America's sweetheart', Mary Pickford
Lorne Michaels
The Littlest Hobo
Ben Johnson

iaink

See, thats why canadians should be allowed to contribute to this sort of list.

Hands up anyone who who considers more than three of that lot "famous" in a "known outside canada" way!!!