I used to live in Fredericton, across the street from Odell Park, the largest park in the city, and Fredericton's equivalent of Point Prospect, Mount Royal, Toronto Island, Hawrelak Park or Stanley Park. There were pipers, perhaps an entire piper band, that would practice in the park, *early* on Sunday morning., every....Sunday....morning. It loses its charm quickly under those conditions.
I love bagpipes! The Royal Scottish Regiment was training at the Army Base in Wainwright Alberta. We throw them a party when they arrive and they throw a party before they leave. Happened to be my Mom visiting, both my sisters and my Mom's birthday! The RSM noticed! Found out? He called the Regimental Piper! That poor bastard stood 4 feet behind my mother's chair - do you know that after about 20 minutes your "smile" starts to cramp? And then there is the joke about "far, far away"! I still love bagpipes but I now understand - far, far away.....
Mike from Canmore is one of the most famous characters on Royal Canadian Air Farce, played by John Morgan, a Welshman who became a legend of Canadian comedy. Another of his most well known characters was a Scottish character called Jock McBile.
My son and I still do impressions of Mike. His bit about being Autistic and then he turns his head slightly and stares off into space..l still makes us belly laugh.
@@susieq9801 I don't play, but I grew up with Celtic music and adore the bagpipes. I'll never understand why people talk about not liking them. Unless they've only ever heard them played poorly by marching bands.
@@PenneySounds - There are a lot of horrible bands. I played since I was 9 and I'm 74. When we would go to the states years ago most bands didn't even know the pipes could be tuned. OIY!!!! My own teacher emigrated to Canada and had played with the Glasgow Police. Every chanter has to be tuned to each other and then all the drones tuned to the chanters. Otherwise they sound bloody awful. The first band from outside the UK to win the World Championships in Glasgow was from Ontario.
@@susieq9801 My father is from Cape Breton Nova Scotia, and while the fiddle is the main instrument in the culture there, the pipes are a big deal there too, and even the fiddle playing incorporates sounds from the pipes in a way that you wouldn't hear in fiddle playing from Ireland or Scotland. I grew up listening to a band from Newfoundland called Rawlins Cross who played folk rock, and featured a piper from Cape Breton. Ashley MacIsaac often featured pipers in his music too. These days I listen to some groups from Scotland like Niteworks and Peatbog Faeries, and there's a band from Italy called The Sidh that showcases the bagpipes, and even a piper from India called The Snake Charmer who plays electric bagpipes and is having great success with her videos. And that's just the Great Highland pipes. There are also things like the Scottish Smallpipes, Irish Uilleann pipes, and different kinds of pipes from places like Latvia and Spain. The pipes are beautiful when played well, and people are incorporating them into all kinds of styles of music in innovative ways. I've got a whole playlist on my channel of cultural fusion music like that. A lot of it is from right here in Canada.
I was totally howling as Iwatched a Canadian comedy compilation called "Marg Delahunty's Greatest Hits" as she ambushed several politicians as Mary Walsh played the character Marg Warrior Princess. It was one of my favourite segments of This Hour Has 22 Minutes. I don't think you'd see US politicians playing along like that!
Every few years a writer or tv critic will put out a list of the greatest US sitcoms in history. The show … "NewsRadio" climbs that list every year, and is often top three. It is sometimes described as an overlooked gem, as the network messed with its scheduling constantly. Dave Foley (kids in the hall) was the lead character, with fellow Canadian Phil Hartman leading supporting cast. Foley is a supremely funny guy, absolutely excelling at deadpan. Newsradio is available on TH-cam and holds up remarkably well
Mert, I am impressed with your understanding of Canadian references. Some of these were somewhat obscure. I follow several non Canadians who respond to Canadian youtube posts and you are by far the most in tune with the subtleties of Canadian humour. Well done!!
If you haven’t seen Russell Peters’ Comedy Now stand up from the early 2000s, it’s what made him famous. All his classic jokes are there. It’s terrific. Also, Trailer Park Boys is true Canadiana. It’s so ridiculous but people who live in trailer parks in Canada say it’s realistic.
Mert, when it’s-34° outside, with a -44° windchill, and you’ve been out waiting for the bus for 15 minutes, and it was supposed to show up five minutes ago, there’s nothing else to really talk about other than the fact that you’re freezing your fuckin’ ass off!! 😂
Little clarification and history. The reference to lining up for toilet paper is based on regular supply shortages that occurred in the Soviet Union, constantly. Waiting in line for everything including toilet paper became the butt end of many jokes, pardon the pun. I was a child and someone on television made a joke that said that when toilet paper ran out in Moscow, sales of the Pravda news paper skyrocketed. Lol.
Kids in the Hall was classic!... There was a contest, and the guy in the towel actually came to New Brunswick to visit the home of the winner.... In his towel. 😅🤪😂
@@beastoned8596 lol! His heart attack? "Get back to wooooork!" Haha I always and still chuckle loudly at all the cherry beach cop sketches and the "f my bank" dance haha also "Daryl" so classic all seasons are classic
In the first sketch, the handshake over giving the finger might have been a reference to a past prime minister... I don't quite remember who so I won't type any names.
When it comes to the second skit about communists, yes it actually happened. By the time the Soviet Union collapsed people in Moscow were quite often lining up for hours for a couple rolls of toilet paper or whatever leftover food shops had, everything was rationed, made the news basically every other week.
I was in the Soviet Union internet 1970’s (family visit). If you saw a queue, you jumped in and asked the folks ahead of you what was selling. Seriously…. I stood in a queue in Chernigov for something with my aunt. She said it was not important…. If you buy it, you can re-sell .
Also, the rabid anti-communist rhetoric was front and centre, especially in the US. Suspected communists (more pointedly, Soviets) could be jailed, blacklisted, hounded out of a job or post, and/or publicly dragged through the political wringer. Have a look at the shenanigans Joe McCarthy and Edgar Hoover got up to in the 1940's and '50's for a chilling look into a very dark period in US history that appears likely to repeat itself, starting later this year.
Steve Smith aka Ref Green ,Rick Green, anything done by The Dead Dog Cafe, are real gems,Smith and Smith was the birthlace(Hamilton) of Red Greeni so so much that. I can't begin to number (CHCH, CBC,TVO to start))
The French parody of "I Am Canadian" is hilarious, but I think you have to be Canadian to get it, and even then you might have to live near a large French population.
Canada had another Great commedian named Mike MacDonald. Also we have a wonderful tv show by Jonny Harris called Still Standing. He goes to small towns of Canada.
The flannel wearing "French Quebecois" skit is a spoof of an ad campaign for Molson Canadian beer that used to run over and over and over again, unironically this skit became just as well known and loved as the actual advertisements. "Joual" (a phonetic spelling for the word "cheval" or horse in English) is what we call "slang" in Quebec, it's a weird mixture of French and badly pronounced English words that might as well be spoken by a horse as it's basically incomprehensible to anyone not from around here, think of some highly localized Scottish dialect that nobody who is not a native Scots speaker could understand. "tu parle le Joual" (you're speaking in Joual) is sort of a low key insult to someone who sounds like they have very little to no formal education and are basically illiterate.
Cool, I thought I knew quite a bit about Quebecois culture but I never heard of Joual before, although I recognize the situational context you've described, I never knew there was a word for it. Merci. BTW that skit is hilarious.
You could do an entire episode about " The Kids". Being a broke teenager/ early 20 somethings in the late 80s/ early 90s. I couldn't always afford basic TV cable. So we only had one channel, the CBC. Kids In The Hall night was a big deal. It was the best show on CBC. Me and my buds would make sure we were home for Kids night. Classic Canadian comedy.
I don't know if you'd read this, but if you can find clips of bizarre, I recommend it. It's where super Dave Osborne started. They had a recurring sketch called The Racist Family which was hilarious. John byner (the host) played the drunken Irish dad, Luba goy (the woman in the bus stop sketch) played the Polish mom, there was a hippie daughter and a black son-in-law. There were more characters, but those are the ones I remember.
I don't think the language used in that All in the Family parody would be allowed today. It was pretty offensive at times. I believe it was not a celebration of Archie Bunker and his views, but a response to tv for airing such views at all. So, why not take it to a pointed extreme?
While I love Super Dave and thought I was going to die laughing when I was 11 (seriously, I was scared I'd die), I doubt Bizarre has aged well. Might be best left alone. Except for Super Dave's stunts! With the help of his mentor, of course.
You'd never get it on tv today of course. But I don't think that means it's not worth watching today. Should I stop listening to al Jolson because he performed in blackface? I would argue that I shouldn't. Hell, if you really want to understand the history of filmmaking, can you do that without watching birth of a nation? I would say you're missing a significant moment, and the contents of that film should have been reprehensible then, never mind today. The racist family is hilarious, full stop.
Living next to the USA gives Canadian comedians an unfair advantage using satire . From Wayne and Schuster thtough SCTV , kids in the hall, Norm MacDonald, Jim Carrey, Mike meyers....paridy is what we do best!
the biggest humour festival in the world was in Montreal . Just for laugh festival or Juste pour rire (in french) . the oldest and most fame humour festival of humour in the world to
No, Mert. Great satire has a kernel of truth. Far more Canadians move to the US than the other way around. So, if Canada is building a wall, it'd be to keep Canadians IN.
I loved the clips with mike from Canmore even if his pokes fun at my home town Sudbury !!! You need to see some chicken Cannon skits from Royal Canadian air Farce
Cause when I travel, they know my dollar is not worth pinch of moose shit...There ya go! Classic 80s stuff before the Trailer Park Boys with kinda the same accents eh? xoxo From Oshawa and Sudbury and Antigonish!!
One of the best Royal Canadian Air Farce pieces was done regarding Princess Diana after her death. Very respectfully done and full of British type humour. Actually was a break from the sadness
If you ever take a trip to Canada, you should definitely try to make a trip to Canmore. Canmore is incredibly beautiful situated in the mountains. Nicer than that towns in the parks nearby.
indeed all the jokes of the 90's and the eighties have come true, and now you cannot even make fun of it anymore, cause... insert whatever reason wherever.
Funny, but today was so cold in New Brunswick, lol. The cold wind just went right through your bones and a lot of people commented on the cold wind. Brrrr Lol
The (current) weather is always a safe subject to talk about, and with how much it changes, it's always a fresh topic too. So it's a good conversational ice breaker with strangers, or just something to fill time with. I tend to lead my group's daily meetings over Teams, and often times we'll wrap things up with a quick chat about the current weather (especially since some of our group are elsewhere).
Clips are available of some great comics who don’t show up too much on “best of” compilations. Mike MacDonald, Brent Butt, Simon King. And there are more. Mike is gone. These and more are available online.
Christmas comedy from a Canadian Cat page whose owner worked with Dave Thomas behind the scenes as she was a "behind the scene" worker-he always treated us with respect TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CATMAS By Callie'n'Solace'n'friendsBB Twas the night before Catmas and all the cats in the house were searching and rummaging for an annoying stirring mouse. The carefully strung stockings were pulled down on a chair but the annoying little mouse was not to be found in there. The kittens were nestling, messing the beds, visions of mouse burgers dancing in their heads. I had no kerchief and the cats hid my cap, I was searching every hole, every corner and gap. When out in the living room I heard such a clatter, I wondered if I really wanted to know what was the matter! But away to the room I flew like a flash, seeing the Catmas Tree was now going to trash. The glow of the flashlight on the decorative fake snow, did nothing to hide the devastation below. When what to my wondering eyes should appear... but 7 guilty looking kittens without a real tear. With a clever old Tomcat still lively and quick I knew the plan he had was going to be slick. More rapid than eagle wings their claws they came. As the old Tomcat shouted and called me a name. "Now slave, now cook, now cleaning litter vixen, get pampering'n'spoiling'n'play like a blitzen. To the top of the tree or the top of a wall, we are cats .......and we can climb them all." As tree decorations in a cat hurricane fly, batting'n'cuffing and tossing them sky high.... Up the tree top with courser claws they flew, with naughty thoughts including the tree topper too!! And then with a twinkling crash I heard in the tree The entire plans of the naughty kittens of three. I drew in my breath and was just turning around, when down the tree they crashed with a real loud bound. All covered in needles from head to claw, all I could do was stand in awe! Mouthfuls of decorations, tinsel on their backs, Acting so innocent like I had none of the facts. Their eyes mischievously twinkled, their smiles so merry, cheeks stuffed with ornaments they soon will bury. Their drooling mouths all drawn into a bow, their crouched little bodies ready to go. They spoke not a word and went right to work, tearing down garland and the tree with a jerk. With a sly wink of the Tom's eye as he turned his head, I knew know there'n'then there was plenty to dread. He sprang into the tree giving the cats a call, "This Catmas jungle gym has hanging toys and all." I heard them exclaim as they climbed out of sight, "Merry Catmas to all...we're playing all night"
i used to say up late, to get me canadian Naughty comedy when I lived in the UK in the 90s, Kids in the haul was my first early teen comedy experience, which i tried to copy to be extra canadian at 12/13 in Manchester....Not a great move, But it was my show....
I grew up in Winnipeg. I used to stay up to catch Monty Python and Benny Hill. SCTV, Kids in the Hall and similar shows were on in the mornings and afternoons on weekends for me.
That Dave Foley skit was something else! However, I think the toilet paper shortage he was talking about happened in Russian when the wall came down and they did go broke, for a while... Lastly and sadly the uncanny coincidence related with today's world climate (or mess) is becasuse what they say it true...History is doomed to repeat itself...
Kids in the Hall predicted a lot and was way ahead of its time... on a side note, the Simpsons has done so as well over the yrs, oddly enough, also has Canadian writers.
The one from Quebec is realy old, might be over 30 years I reckon, like early 90's late 80's it isn't current except the poutine. There is no smoking in public spaces since then...
There's one animated comedy show from Canada that ran for multiple seasons that nobody talks about or admits to ever watching, it's so offensive you probably can't even do reactions to it, the show was called Kevin Spencer. Kevin was a teenage chain smoking, alcoholic, drug addicted, psychotic criminal who followed the orders of his imaginary friend Allen the Magic Goose and spent most of his time in juvenile detention until he started getting tried as an adult where a cross-dressing serial killer thought he was the Messiah and became his best friend. His parents were not much better, Percy would get hosed then run around in a costume as the superhero Drunken Welfare Man and Anastasia was a sex addict. The language would make the Trailer Park Boys blush. Oh yeah, it's animated really badly.
@@settheory2219 The narration describing Kevin's thoughts and actions were funnier than if Kevin actually spoke; "Kevin saw another inmate with a cigarette and asked him for one but when he refused Kevin shanked him multiple times in the gut and once in the neck for good measure before relieving the man of all of his cigarettes and a stash of cough syrup from between his butt cheeks, to take the edge off, 'that oughta teach him a thing or two' thought Kevin."
The Russian's being a threat to anyone other than themselves is still funny. Bearing in mind the location of the Iron curtain in 1982. Eastern Europe was part of their Soviet Union... So they are fighting themselves IMHO.
Try taking a look at Dave Broadfoot. He was a member of Royal Canadian Airforce and had some iconic characters: Big Bobby Clobber (hockey player), Sargent Renfrew RCMP,, and Dave Broadfoot "MP for Kicking Horse Pass" and member of the Apathy Party. BTW Kicking Horse Pass is a real place in the Rocky Mountains.
Sorry about the bag pipe comment sneaking up on you. I'm sure anyone from Sudbury has heard too many people practicing, whereas in most places, you hear them after they learned how to make them sound good. We do love our Scots though!! 🤔🫡🍻
I had a belly laugh at the cold.. nothing brings Canadians together than weather, taxes and hockey lol
As a Canadian I adore the bagpipes. My dream is to visit Scotland one day. I think many Canadians love bagpipe music.
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I used to live in Fredericton, across the street from Odell Park, the largest park in the city, and Fredericton's equivalent of Point Prospect, Mount Royal, Toronto Island, Hawrelak Park or Stanley Park. There were pipers, perhaps an entire piper band, that would practice in the park, *early* on Sunday morning., every....Sunday....morning. It loses its charm quickly under those conditions.
I love bagpipes! The Royal Scottish Regiment was training at the Army Base in Wainwright Alberta. We throw them a party when they arrive and they throw a party before they leave. Happened to be my Mom visiting, both my sisters and my Mom's birthday! The RSM noticed! Found out? He called the Regimental Piper! That poor bastard stood 4 feet behind my mother's chair - do you know that after about 20 minutes your "smile" starts to cramp? And then there is the joke about "far, far away"! I still love bagpipes but I now understand - far, far away.....
My shacks are across from the Bags and Pipes here on CFB Petawawa, I always hear the pipes and it's beautiful
They used to have a piper between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia which of course is New Scotland. Love our blue and white tartan
Mike from Canmore is one of the most famous characters on Royal Canadian Air Farce, played by John Morgan, a Welshman who became a legend of Canadian comedy. Another of his most well known characters was a Scottish character called Jock McBile.
Don’t forget his dog Ike…also from Canmore.
My son and I still do impressions of Mike. His bit about being Autistic and then he turns his head slightly and stares off into space..l still makes us belly laugh.
Mert is so close to being an honorary Canadian. Totally recognized the first skit as a parody.
"...unless you play the bagpipes." 😂
Tailored especially for Mert. Awesome.
Just because he's Scottish, or does he actually play?
@@PenneySounds - I do and I felt deeply wounded! ☹
@@susieq9801 I don't play, but I grew up with Celtic music and adore the bagpipes. I'll never understand why people talk about not liking them. Unless they've only ever heard them played poorly by marching bands.
@@PenneySounds - There are a lot of horrible bands. I played since I was 9 and I'm 74. When we would go to the states years ago most bands didn't even know the pipes could be tuned. OIY!!!! My own teacher emigrated to Canada and had played with the Glasgow Police. Every chanter has to be tuned to each other and then all the drones tuned to the chanters. Otherwise they sound bloody awful. The first band from outside the UK to win the World Championships in Glasgow was from Ontario.
@@susieq9801 My father is from Cape Breton Nova Scotia, and while the fiddle is the main instrument in the culture there, the pipes are a big deal there too, and even the fiddle playing incorporates sounds from the pipes in a way that you wouldn't hear in fiddle playing from Ireland or Scotland.
I grew up listening to a band from Newfoundland called Rawlins Cross who played folk rock, and featured a piper from Cape Breton. Ashley MacIsaac often featured pipers in his music too. These days I listen to some groups from Scotland like Niteworks and Peatbog Faeries, and there's a band from Italy called The Sidh that showcases the bagpipes, and even a piper from India called The Snake Charmer who plays electric bagpipes and is having great success with her videos. And that's just the Great Highland pipes. There are also things like the Scottish Smallpipes, Irish Uilleann pipes, and different kinds of pipes from places like Latvia and Spain. The pipes are beautiful when played well, and people are incorporating them into all kinds of styles of music in innovative ways. I've got a whole playlist on my channel of cultural fusion music like that. A lot of it is from right here in Canada.
I was totally howling as Iwatched a Canadian comedy compilation called "Marg Delahunty's Greatest Hits" as she ambushed several politicians as Mary Walsh played the character Marg Warrior Princess. It was one of my favourite segments of This Hour Has 22 Minutes. I don't think you'd see US politicians playing along like that!
The Canada Party is brilliant, MERT. I gotta go look up that guy now. Thanks for the content.
Every few years a writer or tv critic will put out a list of the greatest US sitcoms in history. The show … "NewsRadio" climbs that list every year, and is often top three. It is sometimes described as an overlooked gem, as the network messed with its scheduling constantly.
Dave Foley (kids in the hall) was the lead character, with fellow Canadian Phil Hartman leading supporting cast. Foley is a supremely funny guy, absolutely excelling at deadpan.
Newsradio is available on TH-cam and holds up remarkably well
I love "Mike From Canmore" as Canmore is so close to Calgary where I grew up.
Mert, I am impressed with your understanding of Canadian references. Some of these were somewhat obscure. I follow several non Canadians who respond to Canadian youtube posts and you are by far the most in tune with the subtleties of Canadian humour. Well done!!
yes our canadian comedy is dry & similar to great britains ~
Toilet paper was a coveted commodity in the USSR.
"Mike from Canmore" has been subject of all kinds of memes and jokes over the years, quite often gun rights related.
Watch and check out Kids in the Hall!! Iconic Canadian comedy troupe ❤❤❤
The bus stop...yes, but more swearing...basically...its so _____ cold...where the blank is a different swear word.
If you haven’t seen Russell Peters’ Comedy Now stand up from the early 2000s, it’s what made him famous. All his classic jokes are there. It’s terrific. Also, Trailer Park Boys is true Canadiana. It’s so ridiculous but people who live in trailer parks in Canada say it’s realistic.
Good call, like getting two birds stoned.
We Canadians do like to talk about the weather.
to be fair, the brits are far more insane about it :)
oddly warm for december, isnt it?
@@ltxero4303 It is, do you think we'll have snow for Christmas? ;)
It's an Austrian thing too. My dad and his sisters in Canada since the 70's (or earlier) start every phone call with "How's the weather?"
I love Canadian commercials was so popular loved watching it and lots of people did parody s of it
Kids in the hall was ahead of the times. If you haven't seen it yet check out their movie "brain candy".
Yeah really... kinda predicted the current Ukraine situation
Mert, when it’s-34° outside, with a -44° windchill, and you’ve been out waiting for the bus for 15 minutes, and it was supposed to show up five minutes ago, there’s nothing else to really talk about other than the fact that you’re freezing your fuckin’ ass off!! 😂
I thought I had put this comment in and forgot. But it was just someone else put it out there and hit the nail on the head.
My favourite one was the last one you watched. There are a number of great Kids in Hall sketches as well such as the Pit of Darkness.
Little clarification and history. The reference to lining up for toilet paper is based on regular supply shortages that occurred in the Soviet Union, constantly. Waiting in line for everything including toilet paper became the butt end of many jokes, pardon the pun. I was a child and someone on television made a joke that said that when toilet paper ran out in Moscow, sales of the Pravda news paper skyrocketed. Lol.
Maybe check out This Hour has 22 Minutes, and one spin-off comedian from that show, Rick Mercer, who had several shows for many years.
Can’t remember if you covered it yet but William Shatner’s take on the “I am Canadian” ad. It’s hilarious.
And Shatner's take on the national anthem.
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am 59 years old and live in Canada. Loved it. Predications were scary because they came true. and still happening.
Kids in the Hall was classic!... There was a contest, and the guy in the towel actually came to New Brunswick to visit the home of the winner.... In his towel. 😅🤪😂
Kids in the hall is the best sketch comedy on earth. Watch all 5 seasons it's worth it!
Me too! Just love that show…My Pen is one of my favourites!!
@@beastoned8596 lol! His heart attack? "Get back to wooooork!" Haha I always and still chuckle loudly at all the cherry beach cop sketches and the "f my bank" dance haha also "Daryl" so classic all seasons are classic
watch out for power walkers
30 Helens agree with this statement
SO great to see some ole' time comedy again! THANK you!
To this day I can’t hear someone introducing themselves as Mike without hearing ‘I’m Mike….from Canmore’.
From Toronto and lived and worked at the Radisson hotel in Canmore for a year or so.
In the first sketch, the handshake over giving the finger might have been a reference to a past prime minister... I don't quite remember who so I won't type any names.
I loved the Royal Canadian Air Farce.
Just in time for the Holidays please check out Bob and Doug MacKenzie 12 days of Christmas parody.
Beauty eh ? 😂
Take off eh...you hoser.😂😂😂😂
@@snafufubartake off to the great white north (it's a beauty way to go). Remember how Geddy Lee of Rush sang that part
When it comes to the second skit about communists, yes it actually happened. By the time the Soviet Union collapsed people in Moscow were quite often lining up for hours for a couple rolls of toilet paper or whatever leftover food shops had, everything was rationed, made the news basically every other week.
I was in the Soviet Union internet 1970’s (family visit). If you saw a queue, you jumped in and asked the folks ahead of you what was selling. Seriously…. I stood in a queue in Chernigov for something with my aunt. She said it was not important…. If you buy it, you can re-sell .
Also, the rabid anti-communist rhetoric was front and centre, especially in the US. Suspected communists (more pointedly, Soviets) could be jailed, blacklisted, hounded out of a job or post, and/or publicly dragged through the political wringer. Have a look at the shenanigans Joe McCarthy and Edgar Hoover got up to in the 1940's and '50's for a chilling look into a very dark period in US history that appears likely to repeat itself, starting later this year.
Steve Smith aka Ref Green ,Rick Green, anything done by The Dead Dog Cafe, are real gems,Smith and Smith was the birthlace(Hamilton) of Red Greeni so so much that. I can't begin to number (CHCH, CBC,TVO to start))
The French parody of "I Am Canadian" is hilarious, but I think you have to be Canadian to get it, and even then you might have to live near a large French population.
The royal Canadian airforce is great and is you need to see it.
"Cold, soo so cold"- ya, have that conversations all the time, but only on the cold cold days!
And 6 months later, we'll be going "Hot. Too damn Hot."
Yes, 2016 was the year Trump was elected president. I loved that wall-building skit! So many good little digs! 😂
Canada had another Great commedian named Mike MacDonald. Also we have a wonderful tv show by Jonny Harris called Still Standing. He goes to small towns of Canada.
The flannel wearing "French Quebecois" skit is a spoof of an ad campaign for Molson Canadian beer that used to run over and over and over again, unironically this skit became just as well known and loved as the actual advertisements. "Joual" (a phonetic spelling for the word "cheval" or horse in English) is what we call "slang" in Quebec, it's a weird mixture of French and badly pronounced English words that might as well be spoken by a horse as it's basically incomprehensible to anyone not from around here, think of some highly localized Scottish dialect that nobody who is not a native Scots speaker could understand. "tu parle le Joual" (you're speaking in Joual) is sort of a low key insult to someone who sounds like they have very little to no formal education and are basically illiterate.
Cool, I thought I knew quite a bit about Quebecois culture but I never heard of Joual before, although I recognize the situational context you've described, I never knew there was a word for it. Merci. BTW that skit is hilarious.
Loved kids in the Hall 😂
Kids in the Hall, superb satire
God bless you, Scottish friend. From central Canada ❤
You could do an entire episode about " The Kids". Being a broke teenager/ early 20 somethings in the late 80s/ early 90s. I couldn't always afford basic TV cable. So we only had one channel, the CBC. Kids In The Hall night was a big deal. It was the best show on CBC. Me and my buds would make sure we were home for Kids night. Classic Canadian comedy.
Hasn't even occurred to me. Canada 🇨🇦 for president🇺🇸, 2024
Problem solved.
Canadians love to complain about the weather😂
I don't know if you'd read this, but if you can find clips of bizarre, I recommend it. It's where super Dave Osborne started. They had a recurring sketch called The Racist Family which was hilarious. John byner (the host) played the drunken Irish dad, Luba goy (the woman in the bus stop sketch) played the Polish mom, there was a hippie daughter and a black son-in-law. There were more characters, but those are the ones I remember.
I don't think the language used in that All in the Family parody would be allowed today. It was pretty offensive at times. I believe it was not a celebration of Archie Bunker and his views, but a response to tv for airing such views at all. So, why not take it to a pointed extreme?
While I love Super Dave and thought I was going to die laughing when I was 11 (seriously, I was scared I'd die), I doubt Bizarre has aged well. Might be best left alone. Except for Super Dave's stunts! With the help of his mentor, of course.
You'd never get it on tv today of course. But I don't think that means it's not worth watching today. Should I stop listening to al Jolson because he performed in blackface? I would argue that I shouldn't. Hell, if you really want to understand the history of filmmaking, can you do that without watching birth of a nation? I would say you're missing a significant moment, and the contents of that film should have been reprehensible then, never mind today. The racist family is hilarious, full stop.
Born in 1982 in Toronto and will always remember laughing at sctv and the kids in the hall as a kid it is truly hilarious even today
Wow, look at Dave Foley here. He's just a baby! 😊
Living next to the USA gives Canadian comedians an unfair advantage using satire .
From Wayne and Schuster thtough SCTV , kids in the hall, Norm MacDonald, Jim Carrey, Mike meyers....paridy is what we do best!
Those were some decent examples of Canadian comedy. Not all of those would be my top picks to show as examples... but a good collection nonetheless.
"I got 15 concussion before a Doctor told me I couldn't play anymore because my knees were gone..."😂😂😂😂😂
You really have to watch The Royal Canadian Air Farce, always makes me laugh.
Don't you worry sir a Great percentage of Canadians love to hear the bagpipes with a drum Corp. Mert Have you been to a Kenny Rogers Chicken?
Or alone. How many Scottish towns are in Ontario alone? Kincardine, Fergus, Glengarry, plus lots more. Lots of Scottish Festivals!
the biggest humour festival in the world was in Montreal . Just for laugh festival or Juste pour rire (in french) . the oldest and most fame humour festival of humour in the world to
No, Mert. Great satire has a kernel of truth.
Far more Canadians move to the US than the other way around.
So, if Canada is building a wall, it'd be to keep Canadians IN.
😂🤣😂🤣
I loved the clips with mike from Canmore even if his pokes fun at my home town Sudbury !!! You need to see some chicken Cannon skits from Royal Canadian air Farce
As to the bit about bagpipe players, actually Canada has more bagpipe bands than any other country in the world. ALBA GO BRAGH!😂
I grew up in Toronto and watching Lids in The Hall. It was ahead of its time.
Cause when I travel, they know my dollar is not worth pinch of moose shit...There ya go! Classic 80s stuff before the Trailer Park Boys with kinda the same accents eh? xoxo From Oshawa and Sudbury and Antigonish!!
One of the best Royal Canadian Air Farce pieces was done regarding Princess Diana after her death. Very respectfully done and full of British type humour. Actually was a break from the sadness
5:51 - Not even a skit. Just footage of actual, real conversation between Canadians waiting for the bus. 😅
Comedy series, Kids in the Hall. I loved Dave Foley.
Kids in the Hall, the new Monty Python!
If you ever take a trip to Canada, you should definitely try to make a trip to Canmore. Canmore is incredibly beautiful situated in the mountains. Nicer than that towns in the parks nearby.
its Quebecois , kay-beck - wah
indeed all the jokes of the 90's and the eighties have come true, and now you cannot even make fun of it anymore, cause... insert whatever reason wherever.
I love the fact he's got a bald eagle on his sweater. There's probably more bald eagles in British Columbia than all of America.
Funny, but today was so cold in New Brunswick, lol. The cold wind just went right through your bones and a lot of people commented on the cold wind. Brrrr Lol
The (current) weather is always a safe subject to talk about, and with how much it changes, it's always a fresh topic too. So it's a good conversational ice breaker with strangers, or just something to fill time with.
I tend to lead my group's daily meetings over Teams, and often times we'll wrap things up with a quick chat about the current weather (especially since some of our group are elsewhere).
The only reason we smoke in Canada is to make the bus arrive 30 seconds after you light up your last cigarette.
Love your videos! ❤
Clips are available of some great comics who don’t show up too much on “best of” compilations. Mike MacDonald, Brent Butt, Simon King. And there are more. Mike is gone. These and more are available online.
Christmas comedy from a Canadian Cat page whose owner worked with Dave Thomas behind the scenes as she was a "behind the scene" worker-he always treated us with respect
TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CATMAS By Callie'n'Solace'n'friendsBB
Twas the night before Catmas and all the cats in the house
were searching and rummaging for an annoying stirring mouse.
The carefully strung stockings were pulled down on a chair
but the annoying little mouse was not to be found in there.
The kittens were nestling, messing the beds,
visions of mouse burgers dancing in their heads.
I had no kerchief and the cats hid my cap,
I was searching every hole, every corner and gap.
When out in the living room I heard such a clatter,
I wondered if I really wanted to know what was the matter!
But away to the room I flew like a flash,
seeing the Catmas Tree was now going to trash.
The glow of the flashlight on the decorative fake snow,
did nothing to hide the devastation below.
When what to my wondering eyes should appear...
but 7 guilty looking kittens without a real tear.
With a clever old Tomcat still lively and quick
I knew the plan he had was going to be slick.
More rapid than eagle wings their claws they came.
As the old Tomcat shouted and called me a name.
"Now slave, now cook, now cleaning litter vixen,
get pampering'n'spoiling'n'play like a blitzen.
To the top of the tree or the top of a wall,
we are cats .......and we can climb them all."
As tree decorations in a cat hurricane fly,
batting'n'cuffing and tossing them sky high....
Up the tree top with courser claws they flew,
with naughty thoughts including the tree topper too!!
And then with a twinkling crash I heard in the tree
The entire plans of the naughty kittens of three.
I drew in my breath and was just turning around,
when down the tree they crashed with a real loud bound.
All covered in needles from head to claw,
all I could do was stand in awe!
Mouthfuls of decorations, tinsel on their backs,
Acting so innocent like I had none of the facts.
Their eyes mischievously twinkled, their smiles so merry,
cheeks stuffed with ornaments they soon will bury.
Their drooling mouths all drawn into a bow,
their crouched little bodies ready to go.
They spoke not a word and went right to work,
tearing down garland and the tree with a jerk.
With a sly wink of the Tom's eye as he turned his head,
I knew know there'n'then there was plenty to dread.
He sprang into the tree giving the cats a call,
"This Catmas jungle gym has hanging toys and all."
I heard them exclaim as they climbed out of sight,
"Merry Catmas to all...we're playing all night"
i used to say up late, to get me canadian Naughty comedy when I lived in the UK in the 90s, Kids in the haul was my first early teen comedy experience, which i tried to copy to be extra canadian at 12/13 in Manchester....Not a great move, But it was my show....
I grew up in Winnipeg. I used to stay up to catch Monty Python and Benny Hill.
SCTV, Kids in the Hall and similar shows were on in the mornings and afternoons on weekends for me.
In the USA 🇺🇸 NOW NOTHING IS BUILT BACK BETTER!!!
Love that he takes a dramatic turn in Fargo, now on FX. Versatile guy.
The best Kids in the Hall prediction was about social engineering and the rise of identity politics.
That Dave Foley skit was something else! However, I think the toilet paper shortage he was talking about happened in Russian when the wall came down and they did go broke, for a while... Lastly and sadly the uncanny coincidence related with today's world climate (or mess) is becasuse what they say it true...History is doomed to repeat itself...
Minus 47 C is cold I felt it last year. minus 5 is nothing
Mike from Canmore 😂😂😂
Only country that can strike up a conversation about the weather and time passes by lol.
excellent
Can't believe you haven't seen Bob and Doug McKenzie from the Great White North. Or watched Letterkenny. Definitely recommend Letterkenny.
Watch more Kids in the Hall. Watch the show, though. Not the movie.
Kids in the Hall predicted a lot and was way ahead of its time... on a side note, the Simpsons has done so as well over the yrs, oddly enough, also has Canadian writers.
❤ The Kids in the Hall! - Communism sketch
The chicken cannon.
That's "Mike From Kanmore".
The one from Quebec is realy old, might be over 30 years I reckon, like early 90's late 80's it isn't current except the poutine. There is no smoking in public spaces since then...
I am NOT Canadian. That's a classic, and it's never not funny. 😂
We talk weather like its a chore.....
People actually do stand around talking about how cold it is.
The Kids in the Hall movie, Brain Candy is genius. You need to check it out.
There's one animated comedy show from Canada that ran for multiple seasons that nobody talks about or admits to ever watching, it's so offensive you probably can't even do reactions to it, the show was called Kevin Spencer. Kevin was a teenage chain smoking, alcoholic, drug addicted, psychotic criminal who followed the orders of his imaginary friend Allen the Magic Goose and spent most of his time in juvenile detention until he started getting tried as an adult where a cross-dressing serial killer thought he was the Messiah and became his best friend. His parents were not much better, Percy would get hosed then run around in a costume as the superhero Drunken Welfare Man and Anastasia was a sex addict. The language would make the Trailer Park Boys blush. Oh yeah, it's animated really badly.
I 1000% watched Kevin Spencer...it was great. Kevin Spencer, you better not cross his path...
@@settheory2219 The narration describing Kevin's thoughts and actions were funnier than if Kevin actually spoke; "Kevin saw another inmate with a cigarette and asked him for one but when he refused Kevin shanked him multiple times in the gut and once in the neck for good measure before relieving the man of all of his cigarettes and a stash of cough syrup from between his butt cheeks, to take the edge off, 'that oughta teach him a thing or two' thought Kevin."
@@ll7868 it was a great choice...just discovered the whole series is on TH-cam. Gotta get back to writing my paper though.
I loved that show,I worked graveyard shift & it was on when I got home….great with a beer & a little green before supper!! 😎
The Russian's being a threat to anyone other than themselves is still funny.
Bearing in mind the location of the Iron curtain in 1982.
Eastern Europe was part of their Soviet Union...
So they are fighting themselves IMHO.
I'm impressed that you're familiar with Kids in the Hall. Did you discover them on TH-cam or were you aware of them growing up?
Bagpipes are popular in Canada: he’s just joking
Stewart Francis Live at the Apollo season 6,
Try taking a look at Dave Broadfoot. He was a member of Royal Canadian Airforce and had some iconic characters: Big Bobby Clobber (hockey player), Sargent Renfrew RCMP,, and Dave Broadfoot "MP for Kicking Horse Pass" and member of the Apathy Party. BTW Kicking Horse Pass is a real place in the Rocky Mountains.
Charlie Farqueson said you had to be careful with yer vowel movements talking about Kicking Horse Pass.
Sorry about the bag pipe comment sneaking up on you. I'm sure anyone from Sudbury has heard too many people practicing, whereas in most places, you hear them after they learned how to make them sound good. We do love our Scots though!! 🤔🫡🍻
The man was Quebecios, not Quebecky.
I live in Canmore 😂