Re: different types of humor
Date: August 13, 2007 20:28
Oh, loochie, if only you asked last September, or before they took all the Daily Show and Colbert Report stuff off Youtube... there was a brilliant clip of Norm MacDonald on the Daily Show, plugging his new CD "Ridiculous." It was around the time that Condi Rice came to Canada (this will NOT be political, bear with me) and there were rumours that she and Peter MacKay, our foreign affairs minister, had had a "thing." There were clips all over the news of a dewy Condi commenting on how well she slept here, with the windows open and the cool Canadian breezes blowing... of course MacKay has a reputation after being dumped by his girlfriend, another Member of Parliament who changed parties and dumped him at the same time... and he's a bit of a ladies man... Fast forward to MacDonald, who was on the show about the time this story was getting airplay, which was about the same time that Steve Irwin had died. He starts riffing on how embarassed the sharks must have been when a lowly stingray was responsible (while Jon Stewart was dying of embarassment, begging "please stop") and Norm keeps going ... You hear who died, the Crocodile Hunter. No kidding - who did it - Frank? Nah, you're not gonna believe me... (It was horrible to watch and impossible not to laugh) (I'm gonna burn in hell...) so to get him off the topic, Stewart asks MacDonald, Hey, you're from Canada... what gives with Condi and that guy? So without missing a beat, a completely deadpan MacDonald says Well, yeah, I know a fair bit about Peter MacKay, and he's pretty well known in Canada, and rumour has it that, once, on a dare... (voice drops 2 octaves) ... he f***ed a crocodile.
Audience went nuts and Stewart wet himself. And now they've pulled the damn clip...
SCTV was a lot of local Toronto / Hamilton guys, including Candy, Eugene Levy, Dave Thomas, Rick Moranis, Andrea Martin, Catherine O'Hara, Joe Flaherty, etc but was filmed in Edmonton. Gave us Bob and Doug of Great White North fame, and the legend is true - they had to come up with more "Canadian Content" to satisfy our broadcast regs, and said So what to we do, sit around drinking bear, eating back bacon and saying "eh" ??? Which is what we do ALL the time... Miss Candy a lot - still remember where I was when that came over the news. A really great guy - as they all are.