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Conan sketch a Triumph Triumph the Insult Comedy Dog, we love you! You took Don Cherry off the language hotseat and planted the politically correct butts of all our politicians in Ottawa on it. You taught us the humbling lesson that while we love to mock Americans, Americans know how to mock back. And you sent the whole country into an uproar - at least those of us who aren't killing ourselves laughing - by drilling through, as the Sun's Bill Brioux rightly put it yesterday, our most painful scab. That is, the rest of Canada's love-hate relationship with Quebec....

Canada Condemns 'Racist' Conan O'Brien TV Show Fri Feb 13, 3:26 PM ET Add Entertainment - Reuters to My Yahoo! By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's government on Friday condemned a show by U.S. late-night television host Conan O'Brien that insulted people in French-speaking Quebec and seemed to suggest everyone in the province was homosexual. Canadian Press Photo Ottawa and the province of Ontario paid $760,000 to help O'Brien -- who appears on the NBC television network -- bring his show to Toronto for a week to boost the city's profile after a deadly SARS (news - web sites)...

MPs condemn O'Brien's Quebec material "You're in North America, learn the language," puppet shouted at Quebec City passerby FROM CANADIAN PRESS A TV comedy sketch in which a grouchy puppet took some potshots at French Canadians on Thursday night landed with a thump on the floor of the House of Commons today. Mauril Belanger, the deputy government house leader, told the Commons that the government finds nothing amusing about American TV host Conan O'Brien making fun of Quebeckers. And he said Ottawa completely disassociates itself from the material. NDP MP Alexa McDonough agreed that the sketch featuring Triumph the Insult...

CHUM apologizes for Conan's Quebec sketch Last Updated Fri, 13 Feb 2004 17:59:13 TORONTO - A Canadian television network issued an apology Friday for broadcasting a U.S. show's comedy routine that ridiculed French Canadians. CHUM Television said the segment will be removed when NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien is shown again Friday night on the specialty channel, Star. "We offer our apology and assurance that it is never our intention to air programming that offends any of our viewers," CHUM said in a statement Friday afternoon. "CHUM regrets any offence that was caused." 'Vile hate-mongering': McDonough Earlier in the...

Ottawa – Canada's government has condemned a show by U.S. late-night television host Conan O'Brien that insulted people in French-speaking Quebec and seemed to suggest everyone in the province was homosexual. Ottawa and the province of Ontario paid C$1 million (400,000 pounds) to help O'Brien — who appears on the NBC television network — bring his show to Toronto for a week to boost the city's profile after a deadly SARS outbreak last year. But the federal government said O'Brien had gone far too far with the show broadcast on Thursday in which he went to Quebec, a province which...

Conan sics dog on Quebec DAY 3: Triumph makes Don Cherry look like a moderate By BILL BRIOUX Don Cherry, you are so off the hook. Last night on American network television, Triumph The Insult Comedy Dog pooped all over the province of Quebec. Talk about puppets who kill. Triumph, as performed by writer Robert Smigel, is a cheesy, rubber Rottweiler hand puppet who smokes a cigar, sounds like Ricky Ricardo on crack and barks insults at everyone within range. He's a Dachshund Don Rickles. He's their Ed The Sock (so much so that Ed operator Steve Kerzner was told...

This has to be one of the funniest things I've ever come across. I'm not a big fan of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog -- he's crude -- but in this video he goes to last year's Star Wars II premiere and makes fun of all the attendees who take Star Wars just a bit too seriously. There is an offensive Catholic joke in the beginning, so if you don't want to hear it, please skip from the 20 sec mark to the 25 sec mark. I hope you have a good laugh! Click on the picture to view the...

The Middle East has seen plenty of tall, pale men since the American infidels set their sights on Saddam Hussein, but perhaps no one as tall or as pale as Conan O’Brien. Sources at Late Night with Conan O’Brien and the U.S.O. told The Transom that Mr. O’Brien, along with the executive producer of his NBC talk show, Jeff Ross, and the program’s head writer, Mike Sweeney, quietly ventured to Kuwait on May 14 for what U.S.O. spokeswoman Sharon Fletcher called a "handshake tour" of American bases that was jointly arranged by the U.S.O. and the Department of Defense’s Office...

Most everyone, by now, is aware of Peter Arnett's firing from NBC/National Geographic. If this weren't enough, I was surprised that another well-known employee of NBC has created (a much unnoticed) stir. I was flipping channels last night and stumbled upon "Late Night With Conan O'Brien", about 10 minutes into the show. Conan was staring into the camera and started musing about how the United States has only 48 allies in this war. The audience did not laugh and I, too, took Mr. O'Brien to be serious with his comments. It gets worse. Without much of a pause, after mentioning...

Just heard something on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" that made me laugh out loud! I just had to share it with my FReeper FRiends. If you're unfamiliar with the program, he does a bit called "In The Year 2000", during which he makes absurd/funny predictitions regarding events that will take place "in the year 2000." (They've been doing the bit for years now, which only makes it funnier.)This one is a gem... "In the year 2000..."Christina Aguilera, while being prepared for surgery, alomst dies on the opererating table, when doctors discover that no amount of swabbing can make her...