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Canadians are funny (2003 article)
The whole world knows it. Canadians are funny.
In fact, comedians are our largest export to the United States - I suppose we have NAFTA to thank for that.
It's been well documented that Canadians are hilarious. Just look at Canada's resume: Mike Myers, Jim Carrey, Leslie Neilson, Dan Ackroyd, Rick Mercer, Eugene Levy, Bruce McCulloch, Martin Short, John Candy - impressive list, n'est pas?
It's actually a secret ploy to invade Hollywood. First the government will send in the comedians, then the submarines we bought from... oh wait... how about them war canoes?
Here's another list: SCTV, Second City, Wayne and Shuster, the Royal Canadian Air Farce, CODCO and This Hour has 22 Minutes. Maybe we should send these troops in with the canoes.
So, what is it about Canadians that makes us funny?
There is the theory of the winter wasteland; where besides hockey, beer and sex, Canadians sit around and tell jokes. With the winter so long, Canadians are bound to get the art of joke-telling, and thus humour, right.
Or maybe Canadians just have it easy: we're an old British Colony, with a French minority; living next to the Americans ... it's a comic's dream. Think of the material! "So a Canadian, a Brit, an American and a French guy walk into a bar ..."
Canadians are not really pretentious, and we're definitely not as bitter and sarcastic as the Brits.
Where else but in Canada can the saying 'keep your stick on the ice' make sense?
Hell, our sports are funny!
Hockey: bunch of grown men in body armour and skates chase a cylinder on ice.
Lacrosse: bunch of grown men in body armour and sticks with cages on top.
Curling: Ah, the lazy man's sport. In what other "sport" can you grab a beer between ends?
So it pretty much comes down to that, Canadians are funny ... well, just because Canada is funny.
Unless you live in Toronto.
In that case, everyone just seems to make fun of you.
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