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Forum: Canada

Sep 17th 2009, 11:49 pm

Replies: 190

Canadians' Sense of Humour?

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Posted By bsmith

Re: Canadians' Sense of Humour?

...wouldn't say these performers "resort" to this type of materiel - they do (did) confront these difficult issues in a straight-on confrontational manner. If you find them unfunny, fair enough, but...

Forum: Canada

Sep 17th 2009, 11:18 pm

Replies: 190

Canadians' Sense of Humour?

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Posted By bsmith

Re: Canadians' Sense of Humour?

....although the best of the US stand-ups use these differences to great effect, from Lenny Bruce's cool New York Jew shtich, right through to Chris Rock and his famous "N" word routine. American...

Forum: Canada

Sep 17th 2009, 7:37 am

Replies: 190

Canadians' Sense of Humour?

Views: 12,486

Posted By bsmith

Re: Canadians' Sense of Humour?

In the village I come from in the UK The League of Gentlemen would be considered a documentary!

Forum: Canada

Sep 17th 2009, 7:31 am

Replies: 190

Canadians' Sense of Humour?

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Posted By bsmith

Re: Canadians' Sense of Humour?

...fair shout - Shatner is a comic genius.

Forum: Canada

Sep 17th 2009, 4:08 am

Replies: 190

Canadians' Sense of Humour?

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Posted By bsmith

Re: Canadians' Sense of Humour?

I also think you need to differentiate between America and Canada. The US has produced genius performers such as Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, Bill Hicks, Chris Rock etc. Canada - not so much. This...

Forum: Canada

Sep 16th 2009, 9:55 am

Replies: 190

Canadians' Sense of Humour?

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Posted By bsmith

Re: Canadians' Sense of Humour?

...Strange you should mention Mike Myers, he once commented about his native country:

"Canada is the essence of not being. - Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a...

Forum: Canada

Sep 15th 2009, 8:31 pm

Replies: 190

Canadians' Sense of Humour?

Views: 12,486

Posted By bsmith

Re: Canadians' Sense of Humour?

Some squaddies get they're ass kicked by a mental Canadian karate midget, plus, someone gets their nose bitten off! - what's not to love about that story. And as I've said before, Canadians are at...

Forum: Canada

Sep 15th 2009, 10:56 am

Replies: 190

Canadians' Sense of Humour?

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Posted By bsmith

Re: Canadians' Sense of Humour?

Canadians are funny - especially when they don't mean to be!

"Blonde karate expert decks soldiers (http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2637999/Angry-blonde-attacks-soldiers.html)"...

Forum: Canada

Sep 15th 2009, 4:44 am

Replies: 190

Canadians' Sense of Humour?

Views: 12,486

Posted By bsmith

Re: Canadians' Sense of Humour?

....It's the future!

Forum: Canada

Sep 14th 2009, 7:15 am

Replies: 190

Canadians' Sense of Humour?

Views: 12,486

Posted By bsmith

Re: Canadians' Sense of Humour?

...I agree, it's the least we can do. It's good to give something back.

Forum: Canada

Sep 14th 2009, 7:12 am

Replies: 190

Canadians' Sense of Humour?

Views: 12,486

Posted By bsmith

Re: Canadians' Sense of Humour?

...there're plenty of funny ones - admittedly, usually when they don't mean to be.:blink:

Forum: Canada

Sep 14th 2009, 5:11 am

Replies: 190

Canadians' Sense of Humour?

Views: 12,486

Posted By bsmith

Re: Canadians' Sense of Humour?

Something I've noticed is that Canadians are useless at laughing at themselves - no sense of the self deprecating type of humour that Brits take for granted and are very good at.
Something like "The...

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