Week 11
----CANADA, EH?----
I Keed! I Keed!
OK look, for the record I happen to like Canada...I even used to pretend I was from there (I was going through an ice hockey phase when I was 11 or so....long story), and I have plenty of relatives there. Sheesh...my boyfriend (you may know of him, Eric Lindros), he's from there too so I'd like to get that out of the way to anyone who thinks that I'm Canada-bashing etc, etc.
Now in case you haven't heard, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
who is a Conan O'Brien
regular, recently made the trip with Conan and his Late Night crew, to Canada where they were going to be filming a
few shows. As his name implies, he pretty much insults people...anyone, everyone...and as juvenile
as it may seem, its pretty funny....rude, crass and 'insulting' yes...
But he's pretty popular so I'm
gonna go ahead and assume that there are a lot of other people out there who find him amusing... Well, except for Canada.
Apparently they found Triumph the Insult Comic Dog to be Insulting....go figure... So much
so that members of the Canadian government described Conan's show as "racist filth" and "utterly vile".
And it even prompted some in the Ontario government to demand the $760,000 that was paid to NBC
in order to get the show to film in Toronto where the city is in need of some positive pr to make
up for the SARS crisis that scarred the city's profile.
So what is it that pissed the Canadians off so bad? While touring the streets
of Quebec he (the puppet) made such comments as, "You're French, you're obnoxious and you no speekay
English." and "I can smell your crotch from here". Now sure, that isn't nice, in fact I would call it an
INSULT, and if you want to know what else they did, here ya go.
What really seemed to piss them off was the suggestion by Triumph and/or the show in general, that
everyone in Quebec is a homosexual. Well I don't know about homosexual, but it sure sounds to me
like they have no sense of humor or common sense. I mean really people, its a PUPPET... A PUPPET! Some plastic and
cloth and fake accent! Give me a f*&king break...doesn't your government have more important
issues to deal with than making official statements like, "We want to disassociate ourselves from the comments which were broadcast last night because we do not support them in any way" to parliament?
Do you really think that anyone takes this puppets opinion and says to his friends, "Gee.... last night I was watching the comedy show, 'Late Night with Conan O'Brien' and I learned that
everyone in Quebec is gay?" Really? Do you think they do?! If you answer yes then I think what the puppet really meant to say
was CLUELESS....the people of Quebec are CLUELESS.
But perhaps I'm being too hard on our neighbors...perhaps their feelings were hurt and they wanted everyone to know. Perhaps Canada would like to know who else Triumph has insulted over the years.....Eminem, Moby, Bill Maher, Bob Barker, J LO, Cher, Avril Lavigne, PETA (of course PETA deserves it), Celine Dion, Philip Glass, Mariah Carey, Elton John, P. Diddy, Billy Joel, Pink, Snoop Dogg, Coldplay, R Kelly, Fred Durst, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Clay Aiken, Ruben Studdard, Walmart, and the list goes on....and on.... Perhaps Triumph should give an official apology to everyone he's ever insulted...or just the ones that 'called' for one, which of course would be only you, Canada. Only YOU that wants an apology from an inanimate object....a piece of plastic....a toy.....a talking dog....
No matter how the Canadian's 'spin' what happened, they still come out looking like, for lack of a funnier and more approriate term, "Rue des Pussies".
Playboy Here is his Playoy interview.....complete with Poodle fantasies
Blender And the Blender Interview....with the added bonus of some of Triumph's finest art work
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