On Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:03:46 -0700, Stephen Black wrote:
>On 1 Nov 2008 at 20:40, Mike Palij wrote:
>> Governor Palin takes a phone call from Canadian radio
>> pranksters posing as French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
>> See:
>> http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g6h1fK1yrnh6Tqp-SAGxAmFgDf1QD946EOKO0
>>
>> Who knew that Canadians had a sense of humor! ;-)
>
>Sir! How dare you impugn our national funny bone.
Who you calling "Sir!", eh?
>Try:
>Dan Ackroyd
>Samantha Bee
>John Candy
>Jim Carrey
>Michael J. Fox
>Red Green
>Stephen Harper
>Eugene Levy
>Rich Little
>Howie Mandel
>Andrea Martin
>Lorne Michaels
>Colin Mochrie
>Rick Moranis
>Leslie Neilsen
>Catherine O'Hara
>Mike Myers
>Martin Short
>Dave Thomas
Shouldn't Pierre Trudeau and Joe Clark be on this list as well?
And one or two other P.M.s? Alas, as with U.S. Presidents,
it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between those who are
comedians and those who are simply a joke.
>(With a lot of help from Wikipedia, and edited to to those likely
>known to Americans (and to me).
A number of the folks you list were part of the Chicago comedy
group "The Second City" which had a Canadian off-shoot "SCTV"
("Yeah, that blowed up real good, eh?"). See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_City_comedy_troupe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_notable_alumni_of_the_Second_City
Remember, respect the ";-)". :-)
-Mike Palij
New York University
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