Kids in the Hall man, it’s by far the best sketch comedy show we have to offer, with all due respect to the many others we have that are also great. Kids in the Hall is Canada’s Monty Python, and pound for pound, it destroys SNL.
Loved seeing Kids in the Hall again (1st 2 clips guessing 90s). We have 2 Dave's in our in our home so one gets Dave at home the other David. Having at least 4 friends/ close coworkers sharing that name, this song was often enjoyed here... Usually when we sat for a meal of 3 or more of them. Now it is back in my head, I am sure it will soon make a reappearance.
American TV execs kept trying to make SCTV more like SNL, for example by insisting they have musical acts. It's why there were appearances from musicians such as Dr. John, the Tubes, and Roy Orbison. The writers tried to work them into the plots of the comedy sketches, for example by having Dr. John get sick from "bad ribs" in _Polynesian Town_ .
@@wizardsuth I never cared much for the musical guests, except they did have Eugene Fodor, the violinist, in a parody of the old movie 'Humoresque'. He couldn't act, but boy could he play!
I see a few other comments mentioned 'Wayne and Shuster'. I think you'll like their unique comedy. Wiki says "They were active professionally from the early 1940s until the late 1980s, first as a live act, then on radio, then as part of The Army Show that entertained troops in Europe during World War II, and then on both Canadian and American television". Much of their material featured longer skits with lots of witty word play. One of their most famous (early) bits was called "Rinse The Blood Off My Toga".
A comedy act that included Latin grammar twenty years before Monty Python;). "I'll have a martinus." "Don't you mean martini?" "If I wanted two I'd ask for them."
Glad to see you enjoying some Canadian comedy. The last two - with the National Anthem & the American Border - are both from the TV show - Royal Canadian Air Farce. They did perform before audiences in their CBC studio for which you could reserve free tickets to see it. I remember going to see the show in person & sitting in their audience a few times. The show was always great. Two more comedy skit shows like this were/are: This Hour Has 22 Minutes (where Rick Mercer became famous), as well as CODCO - which was in truth the start of these 2 shows - but a bit closer to Royal Canadian Air Farce. (I think that Rick Mercer's influence on the early years - when it was the best - of ...22 Minutes - meant that the tone & pace of the show was a bit "snappier" - quicker, SLIGHTLY shorter in temperment - than ....Air Farce.) All 3 of these shows were great & deserve a bit of a watch - then again we have & have had a LOT of great comedy shows - skits or otherwise - just because the Canadian personality has a little of a humourous bent to it - so we do like & enjoy humour & may be a little that way as individuals too.
CBC Radio had a lot of great comedy programs over the years, that's where Air Farce comes from. They also had the Frantics out of Edmonton and Lorne Elliot and his Madly Off in All Directions comedy show. The Dead Dog Cafe was also hilarious with First Nations writers and performers and Peter Gzowski making appearances as "Slim". Peter was not a small man.
Born in the mid 60s and grew up in Canada. I love all things SCTV and Kids in the Hall. After seeing the Dave song my friends and I went around for months singing it! Bruce McCulloch was great at the music parody videos. Check out His follow up to the "Dave"s I know" song it's called "Terriers". So good! Check out Kids in the Hall Scott Thompson doing "Buddy Cole". So funny! A classic SCTV sketch is their Godfather parody. It's in 2 parts on UA-cam. Another favorite SCTV sketch is their parody of the classic tv show Fantasy Island.
The funny thing, the words of the anthem did change. They changed “In all our sons command” to “in all of us command.” I’m cool with the change but can’t get it straight in my head and always find myself saying the wrong thing.
@@christopher480 The original was "thou dost in us command", so no I suspect you don't sing the original unless you are 110+ years old. "in all thy sons command" replaced it in 1913. 1926 added religious references to God, there was none in the original.
I love how you exploring all of this Canadian comedy history. I know people my age who don’t even know kids in the hall and you are able to recognize it
I would recommend about a 4.5 minute video from CBC Comedy's UA-cam channel. It's stars a Canadian comedian named Rob Bebenek. Mostly, it is about crossing the border between Canada and the USA. It is entitled "Canadians are not the nice ones." My wife crosses the border every day for work, and ever since she viewed this video, she smiles when she encounters an overprotective border guard.
CBC radio (birthplace of the Royal Canadian Air Farce and it was funnier than the TV version) but also the Dead Dog Cafe which had a feature on how to decorate with moose (on the radio)
If you want to see some really classic Canadian comedy, look up Wayne and Shuster. Being British you might enjoy their parody on Parliament that they did when parliamentary sessions were first broadcast and the general public learned of all the catcalling, etc. that occurred.
SCTV will have you on the floor in hysterics. The OG Canadian satire show. John Candy, Catherine O’Hara, Eugene Levy and so many more legends all in one place!
The best comedy imho is Corner Gas. It's about life in the fictional town of Dog River, Saskatchewan. Dry humour, sarcasm and no laugh track. Ran for 6 seasons. Best to start at S1E1. You will love it!!
The opening scene was from Kids in the Hall, and yeah, I had seen it before, years ago. Like others I would recommend Wayne and Shuster, especially 'Rinse the Blood off my Toga', if you can find it.
Hi there Mert, thanks for another great video. I love Kids in the Hall, what a great show, plenty of great talent, some very funny guys. Royal Canadian Air Farce is another great show too, btw I love the parody that they did of 'Sorry' by Justin Beiber, it's hilarious!!!! SCTV is another great classic Canadian show, one of my favs, it doesn't compare to SNL sorry guys :D
I am Canadian 🇨🇦 Edmonton Alberta I've never seen these skits But the first two were Kids in the hall Good call Check out This Hour has 22 minutes Corner Gas Brett Butts father yells at a butterfly "Get the hell out of my Garden ...you son of a bit(h!" And trailer park boys Ricky "We are in a shitacane" Oh and THANKS FOR THIS UPLOAD I TOTALLY ENJOYED IT CHEERS FROM EDMONTON ALBERTA CANADA🇨🇦 Those were not episode suggestions.. Btw .. just a sample of a imo Genius comedy. Kids in the hall "My PEN MY PEN MY FAVORITE PEN MY PEN!" A kids in the hall skit suggestion.
I loved the Dave’s I know song in College, we used to all watch Kids in the hall. They still are so funny Even 30 years later. Just for laughs gags are also some great humour that involves real Canadians reactions, you would get a good laugh reviewing.
The first two sketches are from the Kids in the Hall. The first one has an especial bit of funny as the guy on the receiving end of the insults is Scott Thompson (the pride of Brampton, Ontario) is actually gay.
The guy in the first one who keeps changing clothes is Scott Thompson, he grew up in Brampton Ontario around the corner from us and he is openly gay. My eldest sister knew him in high school, she said he was a nice guy but wasn't open about being gay back then and even dated girls.
in my experience as a canadian it's actually far easier to cross the border from canada to the US than it is to come back across. they get quite stuck up about any potential items that need a duty payed on them whether you have anything or not. be nice if they cared half as much when it came to people that legally have no right to cross the border.
That first sketch is from Kids in the Hall which started in 1988. As you can imagine, Scott Thompson being an out gay actor was a very big deal at the time. There was a lot of queer content on the show. It was ground breaking in that way, among others.
The crossing the border sketch reminded me of the time my wife, who is an American , and I crossed into the US during COVID. My wife was not asked for her vacination certificate, but I had to show mine. When I asked the US border guard if he was going to validate it, he replied no, because non US citizens were only required to show the certificate.
#1 Kids in the Hall (always a surprise) #2 ............"............The Daves.....(at the end he shakes hands with ANOTHER member of Kids in the Hall) #3 Air Farce ....... #4 .......".............
When you get the chance, watch the Canadian comedy TV series "Corner Gas". It's about the small town of Dog River in the province of Saskatchewan written and staring Bret Butt.
Loved the arrogant worms for a long time. The war of 1812 is very interesting- but Canada did not accept the invasion lying down!! Check out Laura Secord too
"From far and wide" is also a change. You can tell how old a person is by the words they sing to the anthem. I hate "in all of us command", it's not even proper English.
The altered National Anthem sounds like a variation of the one the Canadian X-rated duo MacLean & MacLean had as part of their hockey sketch on their 1981 Locked Up For Laughs comedy album. Theirs was a reaction to the verse in French that was added to the anthems at hockey games. The technique of saying a lot of words running into each other on one musical note is the same.
Two faces of Canadian comedy, the first two sketches were from Kids in the Hall, wish pushed boundaries and championed equality. The second and possibly last one smelled of air farce? Lazy low concept humour and in the second sketch mocking the idea of equality and inclusiveness. Scott Thompson from the first sketch is still highly regarded for his sketches, particularly his character Buddy Cole, who many people - especially Americans - credit with having saved them at some point or made them more comfortable and confident with who they were. I think Scott may still appear as Buddy in clubs/cabaret etc? He was a character who pushed boundaries further than anyone on TV. The song 'The Daves I know' was a bit of fluff from Bruce McCulloch, amongst many characters he was known for 'Gavin' - and irritating child was probably his best loved. He also performed monologues on KITH from time to time - sadly most of them aren’t on UA-cam, his monologues were works of art, beautifully spoken and worded to perfection. Sometimes taken a bit for granted in Canada, talking to Americans over the years, you will hear those who could watch it (close enough to the border) found it a pretty profound show. It tackled things like homosexuality or religion in a way that would have been inconceivable on American TV.
Parliament did change the words of O Canada from "In all our sons command" to "In all of us command." Though, if the Tories lead the singing of O Canada, they sometimes use the old lyrics.
When you said "Classic" Canadian Comedy, I thought you'sd have clips of Wayne and Shuster a highly popular television comedy duo of the 50's & 60's. Already popular in Canada they were among the first to bring Canadian comedy to the USA, with well received appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show. And to add a touch of trivia to this comment, Canada DID change the lyrics to our National Anthem (2018(?)) to make it more gender neutral. "In all thy sons' command" became; "In all of us Command". The french(and original) lyrics remain unchanged and steeped in politically incorrect religious imagery... "Because arms than know how to carry a sword, also know how to carry a cross" is an actual line.
You need to watch the movie "Canadian Bacon" It's about America starting a fake war with Canada to boost support for the sitting president for the upcoming elections, but a group of Americans takes it upon themselves to strike first. It's an old classic that plays off of the stereotypes of both countries. There's even some scenes from it on youtube
For real Canadian funny (at least from my generation) you should watch "Phil the Alien" and "Dinner at Fred's" as well as "Brain Candy" the latter being a Kids In The Hall movie.
Fascinating, we keep changing the words to O Canada in english, the french are not having it. Mind you, they wrote the song. I learned the New Brunswick bilingual version and am baffled by the shenanigans elsewhere.
@@heidimueller1039 That wasn't the first change, we used to Stand on Guard a lot more. When I started elementary school the teachers were more likely to have us sing Maple Leaf Forever. It probably depends on where you grew up.
@@heidimueller1039 No, there's been plenty of changes of the English version since 1908's version. I'm not complaining about the new version, but there have been multiple changes like adding religious references in 1926. And Weir's 1908 version wasn't even the first adaptation to English, just the one that got popular.
My favourite Canadian comedy duo has to be McLean & McLean. There raunchy comedy songs and skits about sex and drugs and everything in between were classics. They had great songs from Dolly Parton‘s Tits to I’ve Seen Pubic Hair and The Nine Daze Of Christmas. They even worked with Burton Cummings from the Guess Who. Burton wrote one of there songs called Fuckya.
@@CharCanuck14 i always figure... their panda song, is a good brow raiser, so if someone's only ever gonna hear one of their songs, it should be a surprise.
My neighbour is a married man with wife and two kids, we were walking our dog one evening and saw him on the porch with his cat. He proceeded to tell us the friendly cats name was Dave and he said every cat he’s ever had in his life even back to his childhood were named Dave. We thought he was just fukin with us but his wife comes out of the house and says hi and she backed up what he said. We actually met another neighbour who knows them and corroborated the story. So he’s owned many cats and every one of them is named Dave. Imagine having to tell your kids that the new cat after Dave died is also Dave 🙄 takes all kinds to make our little community in northern Ontario go round 😬
Need to watch SCTV (John Candy, Eugene Levy, Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas, Joe Flaherty, Andrea MArtin, Catherine Ohara & Martin Short) and the Red Green Show.
I enjoy the Kids in the Hall more today than I did when they were in their prime 30 or so years ago. They were very quirky, but also very funny in an off-beat way. Air Farce was ahead of its time in its parody/critique of the ridiculousness of wokeism/political correctness 😂
@michaelccozens Looking for a fight, are you? I figure you must be, since I said nothing about "inclusion". I was commenting on the Air Farce sketch, which, unless you're really obtuse, was pointing out how ludicrous the excessive wokeism/political correctness is.
Even now decades later I still sing 'These are the Daves I Know'!
Me too anytime I meet a Dave
Me too!
My favourite!
Air Farce, 22 Minutes, SCTV, Kids in the Hall, the Mercer Report, Reb Green, Wayne and Schuster: all classic Canadian sketch shows.
Four On The Floor from the Frantics was amazing as well.
Red Green
real canadians. whats about those shorts on cbc back in the day. the cat came back, rockets jersey. lumberjack man...
King of Kensington
Don’t forget Lorne Michaels (SNL creator) is also Canadian
Kids in the Hall man, it’s by far the best sketch comedy show we have to offer, with all due respect to the many others we have that are also great. Kids in the Hall is Canada’s Monty Python, and pound for pound, it destroys SNL.
I have said the same since the first time I watched their show. Comedic geniuses.
Loved seeing Kids in the Hall again (1st 2 clips guessing 90s). We have 2 Dave's in our in our home so one gets Dave at home the other David. Having at least 4 friends/ close coworkers sharing that name, this song was often enjoyed here... Usually when we sat for a meal of 3 or more of them. Now it is back in my head, I am sure it will soon make a reappearance.
Kids in the Hall!! Crazy funny show
The guy singing is Sean Cullen, great funny Canadian, who for a time lived in England and was in a comedy troupe called "Corky and the juice pigs"....
Sean had his own absurdist comedy show for a little while, which had one of the best segments I think I've ever seen: "Gordon Pinsent Derides a Cat".
I grew up never missing SCTV. It was everything Saturday Night Live wanted to be but wasn’t.
American TV execs kept trying to make SCTV more like SNL, for example by insisting they have musical acts. It's why there were appearances from musicians such as Dr. John, the Tubes, and Roy Orbison. The writers tried to work them into the plots of the comedy sketches, for example by having Dr. John get sick from "bad ribs" in _Polynesian Town_ .
@@wizardsuth that’s right! I remember John Meloncamp was in the Nutty Professor sketch
@@wizardsuth I never cared much for the musical guests, except they did have Eugene Fodor, the violinist, in a parody of the old movie 'Humoresque'. He couldn't act, but boy could he play!
I see a few other comments mentioned 'Wayne and Shuster'. I think you'll like their unique comedy. Wiki says "They were active professionally from the early 1940s until the late 1980s, first as a live act, then on radio, then as part of The Army Show that entertained troops in Europe during World War II, and then on both Canadian and American television". Much of their material featured longer skits with lots of witty word play. One of their most famous (early) bits was called "Rinse The Blood Off My Toga".
"A Shakespearean Baseball Game" is another one of their classics.
A comedy act that included Latin grammar twenty years before Monty Python;).
"I'll have a martinus."
"Don't you mean martini?"
"If I wanted two I'd ask for them."
Glad to see you enjoying some Canadian comedy. The last two - with the National Anthem & the American Border - are both from the TV show - Royal Canadian Air Farce. They did perform before audiences in their CBC studio for which you could reserve free tickets to see it.
I remember going to see the show in person & sitting in their audience a few times. The show was always great.
Two more comedy skit shows like this were/are: This Hour Has 22 Minutes (where Rick Mercer became famous), as well as CODCO - which was in truth the start of these 2 shows - but a bit closer to Royal Canadian Air Farce. (I think that Rick Mercer's influence on the early years - when it was the best - of ...22 Minutes - meant that the tone & pace of the show was a bit "snappier" - quicker, SLIGHTLY shorter in temperment - than ....Air Farce.)
All 3 of these shows were great & deserve a bit of a watch - then again we have & have had a LOT of great comedy shows - skits or otherwise - just because the Canadian personality has a little of a humourous bent to it - so we do like & enjoy humour & may be a little that way as individuals too.
Loved the Air Farce for Decades..
The first two clips were from Kids In The Hall.
The third and fourth clips were from the Royal Canadian Air Farce.
CBC Radio had a lot of great comedy programs over the years, that's where Air Farce comes from. They also had the Frantics out of Edmonton and Lorne Elliot and his Madly Off in All Directions comedy show. The Dead Dog Cafe was also hilarious with First Nations writers and performers and Peter Gzowski making appearances as "Slim". Peter was not a small man.
I lived for Dead Dog Cafe - my world stopped to tune in. 😢
Born in the mid 60s and grew up in Canada. I love all things SCTV and Kids in the Hall. After seeing the Dave song my friends and I went around for months singing it! Bruce McCulloch was great at the music parody videos. Check out His follow up to the "Dave"s I know" song it's called "Terriers". So good! Check out Kids in the Hall Scott Thompson doing "Buddy Cole". So funny! A classic SCTV sketch is their Godfather parody. It's in 2 parts on UA-cam. Another favorite SCTV sketch is their parody of the classic tv show Fantasy Island.
Yes, I grew up on SCTV, you need to watch that. The day after the Dave's I know played, everyone was walking around singing that!
I have a friend called Dave and I always joke that he is the only Dave I know. :)
Gavin the annoying kid was my fav character of Bruce's... "There were thes kids at school? And they tought a dog to smoke!"... Haha!! Brilliant...
So funny! "How much would my Head weigh?"@@aerialarboreal9005
The funny thing, the words of the anthem did change. They changed “In all our sons command” to “in all of us command.” I’m cool with the change but can’t get it straight in my head and always find myself saying the wrong thing.
I'm 62, and the anthem has changed considerably in my lifetime. I don't think I even know the most recent version to be honest!
@@renees1211 i still sing it the way it was originally written......i dont do cancel culture.....
@@renees1211 It's changed at least twice in mine.
@@christopher480 It was originally written in French
@@christopher480 The original was "thou dost in us command", so no I suspect you don't sing the original unless you are 110+ years old. "in all thy sons command" replaced it in 1913. 1926 added religious references to God, there was none in the original.
I’m a Canadian that loves classic Scottish comedy. 👍
Me too, Chewing the Fat out of Glasgow is the best.
Ron James comedy specials on CBC were very funny.
The Mr. Canoehead skits from the show Four on the Floor are classic.
I'm an American and I loved Kids in the Hall when it was originally aired here. The comedy and the way it was performed was great.
The first two skits were Kids in the Hall. One of my family’s favourite shows.
First 2 were Kids in the Hall and the last 2 were Royal Canadian Air Farce. I loved watching Air Farce.
I love how you exploring all of this Canadian comedy history. I know people my age who don’t even know kids in the hall and you are able to recognize it
SCTV and Kids in the Hall lol 👍🏻🤪great comedy, many laughs.
I would recommend about a 4.5 minute video from CBC Comedy's UA-cam channel. It's stars a Canadian comedian named Rob Bebenek. Mostly, it is about crossing the border between Canada and the USA. It is entitled "Canadians are not the nice ones." My wife crosses the border every day for work, and ever since she viewed this video, she smiles when she encounters an overprotective border guard.
I had a tradesman here the other day named "dave" and I stated singing the "dave" song. He immediately got it. :)
The Kids in the Hall fur traders sketch…..you need to watch that one for sure.
My favorite as well
😅😅Omg the memories! The Dave's song still pops up in my head anytime I hear that name 😅
Kids in the Hall! Great show! Love those guys.
CBC radio (birthplace of the Royal Canadian Air Farce and it was funnier than the TV version) but also the Dead Dog Cafe which had a feature on how to decorate with moose (on the radio)
If you want to see some really classic Canadian comedy, look up Wayne and Shuster. Being British you might enjoy their parody on Parliament that they did when parliamentary sessions were first broadcast and the general public learned of all the catcalling, etc. that occurred.
Future Shop (referenced in the last sketch) died during the 2008 financial crissis
SCTV will have you on the floor in hysterics. The OG Canadian satire show. John Candy, Catherine O’Hara, Eugene Levy and so many more legends all in one place!
BROTHER i WAS MISSING YOUR SHOW ... YOU TAKE ME BACK TO IT ALL.
I literally was just thinking about that song a couple days ago😆
Check out Fouron the Floor, it was a Canadian sketch show in the 80s...Mr. Canoehead was a popular skit.
Codco is another one.
KIDS IN THE HALL ARE AWESOME..
And LETTER KENNY.. FIND the first to 4th season to really get to know the characters
The best comedy imho is Corner Gas. It's about life in the fictional town of Dog River, Saskatchewan. Dry humour, sarcasm and no laugh track. Ran for 6 seasons. Best to start at S1E1. You will love it!!
Every once in a while, even after these many years, the 'these are the daves i know' tune will randomly show up when I hear that name.
The opening scene was from Kids in the Hall, and yeah, I had seen it before, years ago. Like others I would recommend Wayne and Shuster, especially 'Rinse the Blood off my Toga', if you can find it.
You should watch cation: May Contain Nuts, and The Bionic Bannock Boys, both very funny, too.
Take care, and all the best.
The original series of “kids in the hall” 👏👏👏
Hi there Mert, thanks for another great video. I love Kids in the Hall, what a great show, plenty of great talent, some very funny guys. Royal Canadian Air Farce is another great show too, btw I love the parody that they did of 'Sorry' by Justin Beiber, it's hilarious!!!! SCTV is another great classic Canadian show, one of my favs, it doesn't compare to SNL sorry guys :D
Most of Kids in the Hall is really good.
Since my first name is David and I live in Toronto, I've heard 'These are the Daves I Know' a lot.
I am Canadian 🇨🇦
Edmonton Alberta
I've never seen these skits
But the first two were Kids in the hall
Good call
Check out
This Hour has 22 minutes
Corner Gas
Brett Butts father yells at a butterfly
"Get the hell out of my Garden ...you son of a bit(h!"
And trailer park boys
Ricky
"We are in a shitacane"
Oh and THANKS FOR THIS UPLOAD I TOTALLY ENJOYED IT
CHEERS FROM
EDMONTON ALBERTA
CANADA🇨🇦
Those were not episode suggestions..
Btw
.. just a sample of a imo
Genius comedy.
Kids in the hall
"My PEN
MY PEN
MY FAVORITE PEN
MY PEN!"
A kids in the hall
skit suggestion.
I loved the Dave’s I know song in College, we used to all watch Kids in the hall. They still are so funny Even 30 years later. Just for laughs gags are also some great humour that involves real Canadians reactions, you would get a good laugh reviewing.
Codco was another great comedy show
The Dave's I know! Great flashback from Kids in The Hall.
I love Bruce McCullough
The first two sketches are from the Kids in the Hall. The first one has an especial bit of funny as the guy on the receiving end of the insults is Scott Thompson (the pride of Brampton, Ontario) is actually gay.
The guy in the first one who keeps changing clothes is Scott Thompson, he grew up in Brampton Ontario around the corner from us and he is openly gay. My eldest sister knew him in high school, she said he was a nice guy but wasn't open about being gay back then and even dated girls.
Can't believe that you blew the dust off of these...
in my experience as a canadian it's actually far easier to cross the border from canada to the US than it is to come back across. they get quite stuck up about any potential items that need a duty payed on them whether you have anything or not. be nice if they cared half as much when it came to people that legally have no right to cross the border.
That first sketch is from Kids in the Hall which started in 1988. As you can imagine, Scott Thompson being an out gay actor was a very big deal at the time. There was a lot of queer content on the show. It was ground breaking in that way, among others.
I still have people singing that Dave song to me. It's a close second to "Dave's not here man"
Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney, Bruce McCollough, Dave Foley and Scott Thompson. The Kids in the Hall
First two are Kids in the hall, Second two are Royal Canadian Air Farce with guest Sean Cullen
The crossing the border sketch reminded me of the time my wife, who is an American , and I crossed into the US during COVID. My wife was not asked for her vacination certificate, but I had to show mine. When I asked the US border guard if he was going to validate it, he replied no, because non US citizens were only required to show the certificate.
Check out Rob Bebenek's sketch, "Canadians aren't the nice ones."
Whenever I meet a Dave, I still hear that song in my head
#1 Kids in the Hall (always a surprise)
#2 ............"............The Daves.....(at the end he shakes hands with ANOTHER member of Kids in the Hall)
#3 Air Farce .......
#4 .......".............
When you get the chance, watch the Canadian comedy TV series "Corner Gas". It's about the small town of Dog River in the province of Saskatchewan written and staring Bret Butt.
The fourth clip actually came true: They changed it from "in all they sons' command" to "in all of us command".
Who did? Oh right right that song, I am not interested in anymore. Can't believe they didn't make it a show tune.
It's closer to the original. I mentioned above, the original was "thou dost in us command".
Loved the arrogant worms for a long time. The war of 1812 is very interesting- but Canada did not accept the invasion lying down!! Check out Laura Secord too
Border guard sketch is Royal Canadian Air Farce if I'm not mistaken
You should check out the movie "Strange Brew" a true canadian classic.
They did finally change the national anthem, from “all our sons’ command” to “all of us command”. No other words changed though. Simple enough
"From far and wide" is also a change. You can tell how old a person is by the words they sing to the anthem. I hate "in all of us command", it's not even proper English.
@@lindalor9284 what's incorrect about it?
@@kevinmichael8619 It sounds wrong, like "in all of them command", or "you's guys". Why not "in all of our command", or just leave it as it was.
@@lindalor9284 because all of our command would be grammatically incorrect.
@@kevinmichael8619 Perhaps, but I still think "all of us command" sounds wrong.
The altered National Anthem sounds like a variation of the one the Canadian X-rated duo MacLean & MacLean had as part of their hockey sketch on their 1981 Locked Up For Laughs comedy album. Theirs was a reaction to the verse in French that was added to the anthems at hockey games. The technique of saying a lot of words running into each other on one musical note is the same.
Loved MacLean and MacLean as a kid. Totally underrated raunch.
You need to watch the old Wayne & Shuster shows!!
Another funny is called up Schit creek with Eugene levy.canadian comedy of course!
Corner Gas Is another funny comedy based in the prairies starring Brent Butler.
Kids In The Hall, you need to watch more Kids!
Gotta get on this hour has 22 minutes. It's east coast Canada's SNL
Singing of O Canada is not 20 years ago as " Sons command" was quite recent.
Ghost busters' Dan Akroyd, blues brother Jake, is Canadian ! ))))))))))))))))))))))))))
I love all Kids in the Hall I grew up on it
Late to the sportsball game, please do the Terrier Song!
Two faces of Canadian comedy, the first two sketches were from Kids in the Hall, wish pushed boundaries and championed equality. The second and possibly last one smelled of air farce? Lazy low concept humour and in the second sketch mocking the idea of equality and inclusiveness.
Scott Thompson from the first sketch is still highly regarded for his sketches, particularly his character Buddy Cole, who many people - especially Americans - credit with having saved them at some point or made them more comfortable and confident with who they were. I think Scott may still appear as Buddy in clubs/cabaret etc? He was a character who pushed boundaries further than anyone on TV.
The song 'The Daves I know' was a bit of fluff from Bruce McCulloch, amongst many characters he was known for 'Gavin' - and irritating child was probably his best loved. He also performed monologues on KITH from time to time - sadly most of them aren’t on UA-cam, his monologues were works of art, beautifully spoken and worded to perfection.
Sometimes taken a bit for granted in Canada, talking to Americans over the years, you will hear those who could watch it (close enough to the border) found it a pretty profound show. It tackled things like homosexuality or religion in a way that would have been inconceivable on American TV.
Parliament did change the words of O Canada from "In all our sons command" to "In all of us command." Though, if the Tories lead the singing of O Canada, they sometimes use the old lyrics.
They should have changed it to the original 1908 version, "thou dost in us command" even if it sounds outdated it gives it a bit more feeling of time.
A lot of these skits are still relevent today, wish we still had a lot of these shows now!
When you said "Classic" Canadian Comedy, I thought you'sd have clips of Wayne and Shuster a highly popular television comedy duo of the 50's & 60's. Already popular in Canada they were among the first to bring Canadian comedy to the USA, with well received appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show.
And to add a touch of trivia to this comment, Canada DID change the lyrics to our National Anthem (2018(?)) to make it more gender neutral. "In all thy sons' command" became; "In all of us Command". The french(and original) lyrics remain unchanged and steeped in politically incorrect religious imagery...
"Because arms than know how to carry a sword, also know how to carry a cross" is an actual line.
Politically incorrect? You mean badass?
"Our home on native land"
@@neiltheplayer This!!!
You need to watch the movie "Canadian Bacon" It's about America starting a fake war with Canada to boost support for the sitting president for the upcoming elections, but a group of Americans takes it upon themselves to strike first. It's an old classic that plays off of the stereotypes of both countries. There's even some scenes from it on youtube
Wayne and Shuster - Don't go Julie / Rinse the blood from my toga
For real Canadian funny (at least from my generation) you should watch "Phil the Alien" and "Dinner at Fred's" as well as "Brain Candy" the latter being a Kids In The Hall movie.
The bear that hit the homophobic cyclist was on Kids in the Hall.
Oh, and how did I forget Trailer Park Boys.
Fascinating, we keep changing the words to O Canada in english, the french are not having it. Mind you, they wrote the song. I learned the New Brunswick bilingual version and am baffled by the shenanigans elsewhere.
What do you mean we “keep changing it”. One change, one! From “all our sons’ command” to “all of us command”. Big deal. And women like it too.
@@heidimueller1039 That wasn't the first change, we used to Stand on Guard a lot more. When I started elementary school the teachers were more likely to have us sing Maple Leaf Forever. It probably depends on where you grew up.
@@heidimueller1039 No, there's been plenty of changes of the English version since 1908's version. I'm not complaining about the new version, but there have been multiple changes like adding religious references in 1926. And Weir's 1908 version wasn't even the first adaptation to English, just the one that got popular.
My favourite Canadian comedy duo has to be McLean & McLean. There raunchy comedy songs and skits about sex and drugs and everything in between were classics. They had great songs from Dolly Parton‘s Tits to I’ve Seen Pubic Hair and The Nine Daze Of Christmas. They even worked with Burton Cummings from the Guess Who. Burton wrote one of there songs called Fuckya.
Good selection.
now you've seen this, do you regret not hearing any of 'corky and the juice pigs' work?
Corky & the JPs played at our college (late 80s) and they were hilarious! "Eskimo" is so funny!
@@CharCanuck14 i always figure... their panda song, is a good brow raiser, so if someone's only ever gonna hear one of their songs, it should be a surprise.
Does anybody remember "you can't do that on television"?
Right now I have a brother David, a nephew Dave, and a cousin David.
My neighbour is a married man with wife and two kids, we were walking our dog one evening and saw him on the porch with his cat. He proceeded to tell us the friendly cats name was Dave and he said every cat he’s ever had in his life even back to his childhood were named Dave. We thought he was just fukin with us but his wife comes out of the house and says hi and she backed up what he said. We actually met another neighbour who knows them and corroborated the story. So he’s owned many cats and every one of them is named Dave. Imagine having to tell your kids that the new cat after Dave died is also Dave 🙄
takes all kinds to make our little community in northern Ontario go round 😬
CHICKEN LADY IS GOD ...lol
The difference between border agencies is very real.
Need to watch SCTV (John Candy, Eugene Levy, Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas, Joe Flaherty, Andrea MArtin, Catherine Ohara & Martin Short) and the Red Green Show.
I've got a cousin named Dave! Lol
I enjoy the Kids in the Hall more today than I did when they were in their prime 30 or so years ago. They were very quirky, but also very funny in an off-beat way. Air Farce was ahead of its time in its parody/critique of the ridiculousness of wokeism/political correctness 😂
It's pretty interesting that you claim to love Kids in the Hall but scoff at the idea of inclusion.
@@michaelccozens 😭
@michaelccozens Looking for a fight, are you? I figure you must be, since I said nothing about "inclusion". I was commenting on the Air Farce sketch, which, unless you're really obtuse, was pointing out how ludicrous the excessive wokeism/political correctness is.
Slings and Arrows, Corner Gas, Due South
Well Canada actually did change the words to the National Anthem, so it was more relevant than prescient.
check out Wayne and Shuster Shakespear Baseball sketch
The politically correct National Anthem was done in 2001 by Air Farce.
I'm not sure if you can do much with this show but Cash Cab was a good show, a trivia game show in a cab/taxi.