Talk:Canadian humour

For a December 2004 deletion debate over this page see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Canadian humour

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Still expandible!

We need French-Canadian humour, either in its own section or inline through the others, and we could do with a section on film (or integration into TV). Perhaps radio could have its own small section. Illustrated comics could go in Literature. Pre-modern historical humour would be challenging to write but interesting. Samaritan 05:47, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

...from reading the article, you'd still think Anglophones were about the only funny Canadians. Can anybody expand? I wish I could. :/ Samaritan 07:44, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, Samaritan, for reminding us. Interesting how our first thoughts about humour are so ethnically and linguistically rooted. Second thoughts bring to mind Les Plouffe (TV), La Comédie canadienne (theatre), Yvon Deschamps (both), Juste pour rire (Just for Laughs), André-Philippe Gagnon, Michel Courtemanche... Oh and literature: Michel Trembley, Roch Carrier, Yves Beauchemin. We need a Quebécois(e) to help us on this. No wait, Antonine Maillet... We need Franco-canadien(ne)s. Sunray 18:13, 2005 Jan 3 (UTC)

I've started working on this. At first, there was so much, I thought maybe we would need a separate article. But then I began to see the similarities. From La famille Plouffe, to Just for Laughs, there is a tremendous amount of cross-over. I guess one of the best examples is the movie: The Decline and Fall of the American Empire--Canadian or what! This is exciting. The two solitudes unite... (drum roll, please) in humour. Sunray 20:57, 2005 Jan 3 (UTC)

Don't Delete it

It seems like a worthwhile page and is filled with lots of good names. Herm

Jann Arden, that controversial comic

User:24.207.10.76, as hir only edit thusfar, tacked this sentence to the bit about Jann Arden: "Many Canadians disagree with Jann Arden's sense of humour and this points to another area of Canadian culture: disagreeing on what Canadian Culture is." I reverted it. I think it's a given that any humourist will leave a fair number of people cold; we can trust our readers to understand this without tagging every reference to a widely-recognized humourist with weasel words. Further, it's unsupported; any relevant/attributed and/or specific/factual discussion of critiques of her humour might do well at Jann Arden; this wouldn't be the place. Samaritan 06:31, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)

'Integral part' and 'excelled at comedy'

Re: the opening paragraph. Isn't it a kind of universal trend for citizens of a country to think that their particular country leans a lot towards comedy and humour, like a kind of Comedy Forer Effect. It's not like many people would say that they/their country is particularly unfunny. I recommend it be changed.

Rick Mercer?

I find it odd that there's an entire PARAGRAPH devoted to Rick Mercer, who's actual appeal beyond "This Hour" has been minimal at best (being hawked by the CBC and MacLeans is a poor arbitrar of popularity), while Steve Smith with two successful comedies under his belt (one of which, The Red Green Show, has become a massive hit both domestically and for export, a feat perhaps even more substantial than Due South or Kids in the Hall) and his show makes a mere couple of mentions.

There's nothing particularly important about Mercer, and his section should be toned down.