A FINE COUNTRY, FOR ME TO POOP ON: The government of Canada is up in arms about a segment that aired on last Thursday's edition of "Late Night With Conan O'Brien," in which venerable Conan character Triumph the Insult Comic Dog was shown rampaging across Quebec City, making fun of that city's citizens and fornicating with local dogs.
Proving that leftist politicians are just as insufferable and humorless north of the border as they are here, one New Democratic member of Parliament referred to the broadcast as "utterly vile" and "racist filth," while others complained that the show both made light of the Quebec separatist movement, and "seemed to suggest that everyone in [Quebec] is homosexual." I heard no complaints, however, about Conan's repeated jokes about unknown-in-America hockey commentator Don Cherry, or the lack of a performance by the Canadian power trio Rush. WKIKYA has more.
Gee, it's a good thing we live in a country in which the federal government doesn't intrude in the broadcast of innocuous televised entertainment. Oh, wait.