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Robin Williams To Sing "Blame Canada" @ Oscars
mwillis was the first of those who deluged us with this story: Robin Williams is set to sing the South Park song "Blame Canada" at the Oscars. There's been some...discussion as to who would actually sing the song (I just can't understand why Anne Murray [?] refused *grin) but it appears Williams will be the man of the hour. I might even watch this time.
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and have a really good laugh at all those suckers who let them get away with it.
let me guess, same ac responding negatively about robin williams in every thread?
Good one. A hasty generalization based on one person (see sample of 1 in 30 million) questioning the intelligence of an entire nation. Ironic.
Face it, it's about money. Act outrageous and you get attention, but few offers. Act conservative and controllable and the offers come rolling in. Hollyweird's been this way since the beginning. It's nothing new. It's all about the money.
You all suck.
You are stupid. I didn't say i was talented. You need to reread the post. I simply like exposing idiots like Ribin Williams and yourself.
Because we're not going to help them. That would be SOCIALISM. No way. Sure, we might be the most prosperous country in the world, but if you've got a sick child and you can't afford health care, FUCK YOU. If it is the will of CHRIST JESUS that your child survive, then start praying. If it is the will of JESUS that your child die, then that will happen. And I shall not shed a tear because it is not my fault that you are in your lowly state. I am SICK of underprivileged people and wish that GOD ALMIGHTY would just wipe them off the face of the Earth all at once.
this is the funniest post i've seen on the topic
thats not even funny
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Um, did he claim to be talented?
Actually I was trolling. I thought this would start something big. I hope it does :) Thanks for posting.
how Robin Williams is going to be singing, alone, a song for four separate female characters?
I just pray he doesn't try to find the pathos in the song. Lately, he's been making unwatchably bad films as he tries to touch our hearts as well as our funny bone. Mostly, he's been pressing the gag reflex.
I hate Robin Williams too!
[Robin Williams] is such a geek. He is a spineless, talentless bastard.
I'm glad someone else sees through his stupid free-association rants. His schtick is okay the first time, After that he's PLAYED PLAYED PLAYED. And I'm sure any doctorate in acting he claims to have is honorary, granted by some fawning wannabe-but-couldn't-cut-it academic.
Can't do that either, read Deuteronomy. Can't remember the passage.
I've always wondered about that. if priests aren't suppossed to have sex, why don't they get nutured? Makes sense.
Robin Williams is a has been. No one thinks he is funny anymore.
Beavis and Butthead was often brutal in its mocking of American culture, and was *insanely* popular in the U.S.
The only people I know who think SP is the slightest bit clever or funny are most definitely nerds. So, the answer is "yes"
Actually Canada *does* censor their TV programs. Try watching a WWF program sometime.
Whats wrong with you, you fucking idiot? Looks like we have a braindead canuck here, folks! Lets rape his virgin ass. >:o)
but in general the only people that were poked fun at the whole time were americans...
Uh huh. America was portrayed as a world power with a premiere military and a strong moral compass. The Canadians were portrayed as foul-mouthed socialists hell-bent on destroying decent children. Yep, must have been the Americans that were made fun of, yep, that must be right. What is wrong with you people?
And you don't eat tits either. Fucking homo's...
I'm not a Catholic so I'm not entirely sure, but it is considered okay for priests to choke the snake, right? That is probably a good things since it lets them blow off some steam, no pun intended.
Typical Americans. Have to talk down about other nationalities to make yourselve look better. Look at the way you treat Mexicans. hell I even once herd Canadians refured to as "Wite Mexicans". I have have live in both countries, Canada is bye far the better place to live. at least in Canada you don't have to worry that so poor slob is going to blow your head off for your fricking shoes. Or that if you are a low income family you can't get decent medical care for your kids. No I think it should be the other way around BLAME THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. I think you my find that it is you Americans the majority of the worlds nations look down apon.
Robin deserves a half stick of dinamite up his arsehole. Same goes for you, as a matter of fact.
When you're so against this sort of thing, you become obsessed with watching it to find all the bad things. Didn't the Christian Coalition or Southern Baptists spend an insane amount of time scrutinizing Disney films for the purpose of telling us what's wrong with it so we can avoid it? If it's so wrong...why are they watching it in the first place!?
On a more on-topic note, maple syrup works better. Oh btw, Robin's one s3ksi p3r50n
Hey there. I'm an atheist, but I just thought I would chime in here. I think that when people talk about how evil and intolerant "Christians" are, they are generally referring to evangelical Protestants (fundamentalists) and not Catholics. Even in recent days, I see encouraging signs from the RCC. The Pope's recent apologies to various groups, and his trips to Egypt/Jordan/Israel etc. are good things. Of course, the Pope could have gone further and condemned violence against homosexuals, but he didn't.
(It amuses me that the Bible says that homosexuality is "an abomination" and that people who are gay should be "put to death", shortly after it prescribes the same fate for people who eat shellfish. Yet you never hear people complain about the Lobster Eater Agenda. Oh well, that's a different topic, I'm wandering
Anyway, the Pope has gone on the record stating that biological evolution is an obvious fact but that it does not conflict with the theology of the church. It seems that the Catholic Church is going out of its way to reach out to other cultures and religions in a peaceful manner to promote understanding and goodwill among everybody. This is great to see, and even though I am not a religious person, I welcome this type of outreach and I consider this type of faith to be a harmless vice.
But then
.. there's the fundamentalist Protestants.
*shakes head*
These people seem to be hell-bent on creating divisions among people, promoting intolerance, spreading hatred, and using whatever legal and extralegal means they have available to force their theology on other people. You've got fundie assholes like Pat Robertson, who claimed that the country of Scotland was an "evil country filled with homosexuals" when they gave him a less-than-warm reception. You've got the James Dobsons of the world, attempting to do whatever they can to preach to you and your children.
You've got groups running television ads threatening people with eternal torture if they don't convert to their religion. You've got particularly repugnant Web sites. You've got schools that prohibit interracial dating. All of this sort of segregationalist hysteria contributes to unease and intolerance. And they love it!
I believe that fundamentalist Protestants are extraordinarily dangerous people. It is somewhat comforting to know that they are a minority, but it doesn't take a whole army to blow up a building.
Seriously, I've gotten lots of my hardware from university and corporate dumpsters. Old amber screen WYSE termianls. Dead ethernet hubs that weren't too hard to fix. Even a couple of old DEC Apollo machines! Woo hoo!
Shut up or I'll put the seats back on!
Actually, I don't understand what is so funny about all this... don't people understand that when they bash Canada in the movie, well it's the USA that is target? (violence, arms, vulgarity, etc.)
;-)
Well, we are not perfect and have many problems, but for these problems, USA is the first place to look!
By the way, I'm a Canadian, so this is my opinion
i heard that he graduated with a theater major from julliard, which is about as good a pedigree as an actor can have.
Ya the CRTC is a funny beast. I'm sure they'd allow a weekly series of snuff child rapings as long as it used Canadian children. Of course it was because of the CRTC that we got Bob and Doug, so it can't be all bad, right?
Hopefully he'll curse a lot and stuff.
The link to the story on comedy central is here.
Hey, then we couldn't use this joke...
How do you get a choir girl pregnant?
Dress her up like an altar boy!
I'll take 'em until the comments are so stale I cease to laugh at them. The comments are still pretty funny; especially the mental picture I got of Whoopi Goldberg singing 'Uncle Fucker'..
:)
The version they sang first in the movie, or the later Rap version (once Terrance and Philip became 'famous')?
Q: How do you get a nun pregnant?
A: Fuck her
Now all you RW supporters moderate me down for having an opinion.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000317/re/oscars _song_1.html
Way to go slashdoh!
What, are you trying to say that they shouldn't be blamed for this?
Maple grits are a travesty and blasphemy upon the holy name of grits itself.
Well, I guess that makes me a middle-school nerd. I quote both Monty Python and South Park. My last DVD order contained 4 South Park discs and 9 Monty Pythons...
And don't even get me started on Douglas Adams...
..And you mentioned Howard Stern in the same post? Pass the crackpipe.
This is "News for Nerds"?
An actor friend of mine told me that Robin Williams has a Doctorate in Acting. He found out when Willams went down to Tulane for some speech or presentation or something.
Later
ErikZ
Democrats or Republicans. They are both taking us to the same place and they are not afraid of us anymore.
I can't say I care. I thought the film was absolute crap. I enjoy the series, but the film was just beyond stupid. I know the series IS childish, but the film was just........ hell I'm lost for words. Hence I don't care for this song. It was so memorable, that I can't even remember it! What is this being nominated for? Best song? If it wins, god help us. I'd rather watch a Celine Dion concert, than watch this film again.
Two days after my report was declined, someone else manage to submit it - i guess the censors just don't like me
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No. I disagree. They picked him because he's the only one that can divert from the issue. Just watch - he'll make a joke out of the whole thing. He'll mouth the words so ostensibly, with such an expression on his face - the TV audience and the people at Shriners will be in stitches laughing - and the puritan TV corp sickos will heave a sigh of relief. Billy Graham will frown a bit, Al Gore will smile to himself and say, "I really believe in this nation", and the show will go on.
plus he's too hairy. doesn't anyone but me see it ?!?! He's people...He's people....Robin is people !!!!
That'll get those naughty bits past the censors :)
cbd.
Oh, and I'll just assume you meant the FCC, not the Federal Trade ionCommision.
Uh.. yes; my mistake. Though, the lines sometime get blurry in what FCC and CRTC do, as they regulate who gets the rights to certain commercial activities using the waves. Maybe they should merge the FTC and FCC into the FTCS: the Federaly Traded Communications Shylucks.
is anyone going to claim that this article is old? Geez... This was on ABCnews.com a week ago.
Since you only use 10% of your brain, why not remove the other 90% ?
I know someone who'll remove the excess for the low low price of $19.95*, plus they'll throw in a really nice set of Ginsu knives.
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Robin Williams is the right man for the job he has that strange sense of humor that everyone likes.
http://theotherside.com/dvd/
Which Robin Williams is going to sing Blame Canada? Is it the young, bold Robin Williams, who includes the topic of illegal drugs in his HBO standup routine? Or is it the older, Disnified Robin Williams, who entertains kids with funny voices and contorted faces?
Know what I like about atheists? I've yet to meet one that believes God is on their side.
There was an interview about it on public radio with a guy who was planning the show and he said that Anne Murray thought it was very funny and wanted to do it but had a schedule conflict. That would have been the best.
...in a secret vault somewhere in LA from which he controls all media. Think about it, this story and all the turns it has taken is merely one example of the tendancy in the past few years of everything in our media culture becoming more and more surreal. Sometimes I get the feeling that people are just taking things to the extremes in order to test how far the viewing public will follow them. I think "Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?" and the COPS episode of the X-Files have proved that there really is no limit to the public's capacity to suspend disbelief and accept all manner of ideas that are only tenuously linked to anything we once might have believed was "reality."
strange things are afoot at the Circle K...
Not only is Robin Williams an amazing comedian, but he is also an amazing drama actor. What are the freaking odds? Not even Jim Carey has that much talent. I can't think of anyone as talented as Mr. Williams. Can anyone else?
:)
Also Canada doesn't censor their television. Maybe they don't suck so much after all.
I'll second this 100%. Am I the only person who avoids ANY movie with Robin Williams in it. Because I already know what a needy, whining jerk he is already - having seen more than one movie of his before. Sorry if this seems harsh, but tolerance needs to be reserved for those who appreciate it.
I'm afraid we don't eat grits in Canada, sorry :-p
Does it make you happy you're so strange?
Ooh, you got to correct Steven Wright and use the word "pole" in a cool way. At the same time. I bet you feel l33t, don't you?
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Perhaps we need a "Blame Canada" topic... ;^)
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I'll take 'em until the comments are so stale I cease to laugh at them. The comments are still pretty funny; especially the mental picture I got of Whoopi Goldberg singing 'Uncle Fucker'..
There'll inevitably be another two: One when Williams does it, and one when someone makes a MP3 of the joyous event available. Save your wrath for the latter..
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He hasn't been funny since 1983. A smart guy, a talented guy, but funny...not anymore. And definitely not original. He's been doing the same shtick for years and years.
Really it would be more interesting to see a special oscar edition of South Park ;) I'm sure they could insult everyone in say 15 minutes. The Oscars have always been too "political" for the movie studios and many movies/actors that should have gained an oscar did not.
Eric == Cartman
What happened to Stan?
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I couldn't pry myself away from the set. I'll have to watch anyway just for the song.
"Flapping heads and beady eyes ..." I suppose
I wasnt planning on watching the Oscars before or after Robin williams sings that song . South Park isnt funny and neither is Robin Williams,maybe I missed the point of the whole thing or I didnt do enough drugs and my one remaing brain cell keeps me from getting what it's all about
As a Canuck you of all people should know that Yanks don't like being made fun of. In no way will they laugh about them selves. It is probably some sense of superiority. :-) Remember Due South? ;-)
:-)
By now I have stepped on many Yankee toes and even some Redneck toes probably. So to them I want to say that we (the rest of the world). Where else can we find a country to laugh about in such various ways. England may make the best comedy, but for real life comedy we turn to the United States. All the various talkshows, but mostly Jerry Springer, give us enough to look at and to laugh about the way of life in the US.
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Actually... It wouldn't be Parker and Stone but rather Parker and that other dude who wrote the song with him..
Stone apparently didn't help write the song...
El Karma: excelente(principalmente la suma de moderación hecha a los comentarios de los usuarios)
And you are talented? Also you must be a geek as well, since your here at /.
They were probably being too superficial and not actually looking into the meaning of what was said.
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I think it would be a lot funnier if we could get someone who's usually serious to sing it... Like Celine Dion...
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He went to Juilliard. Not quite a wannabe...
Yeah, its a shame he talks so fast you cant understand what he`s saying. Then again, that way no-one can tell that hes not very funny.
(apologies to Beavis and Butthead!)
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light and dark are two poles of the same object.
A decent Network is finally here.
Yeah, I think that I might tune in for 5 mins to see this.
Eh...
You dreary critters! :)
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This is true. Canadians were bashed, but not directly, only because the theme of the film was to blame something besides ourselves. I thought the film was hallariously similar to the media reaction to the Columbine shooting. Whe THAT sucker went off, all the parents of America wanted to blame video games, music, black trenchcoats, the internet... everything but bad parenting. I think that was what they wanted to depict is how rediculuos a conclusion they could come to. It wouldn't have been a very interesting movie though if they had decided to sing, "Blame Candy Bars". Fo course Canada shouldn't take offense to the target that was chosen, we were laughing with you, not at you. -Effendi
-Effendi
Well, I hate to point it out, but the only spineless talentless person I see here is you, for both your anonmity and tasteless writing. A+! ;)
Chris
-- Humans, because the hardware IS the software.
Maybe... but then that just works against them, considering those are "childish" type of insults... =) Besides, the movie was really about censorship, which in the end is why the whole Oscar-censoring is such a lark... :)
Chris
-- Humans, because the hardware IS the software.
As for why there are stories like this on /.? I cant really answer that, but 1- if you dont like it dont read it (let alone respond to it... ) and 2- Southpark is funny.. them being awarded by the acadamy is even funnier.
- "yes but can you hit someone over the head with a rolled up internet?" -Foxtrot
hah! This post is exactly what the South Park movie parodies!
I will have to watch that, i bet it will be funny
It shows that Matt Stone and Trey Parker know how to pick people to support them becuase Robin Williams is the perfect one for this song. For those who oppose, take a course in drama and see if you can do what he does and call it no talent. Farewell skUnk
I'd bet that the guy from www.capalert.com, the ChildCare Action Project: Christian Analysis of American Culture Reports. They're hilarious. Here is his review of South Park.
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I'm only slightly skeeved that I covered this story, flaming editorial and all, days ago and got nary a visitor ...heh.
I read this at first as Robbie Williams, and nearly lost my breakfast.
Can we get Whoopie to do Uncle Fucker instead?
he's the type of guy who would be willing to include the profanity even though he's not supposed to. He'd be able to get away with it, too!
He has done some good movies, but only by branching out from the comedies. Bicentenial man was good, but my absolute favorite of his movies was What Dreams May Come. Don't assume that crap like Mrs. Doubtfire or Jumanji are all that he is capable of.
I may get tired of him as a comedian, but at least he's better than Jim Carrey.
They shouldn't let people who haven't actually ever seen the show write about it, yes? "...potty-mouthed South Park stars: Eric, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny." Ohmigod! They killed Stan! You bastards!
There's a pretty funny poll running at http://www.Filmindustry.com that's linking all of this year's Oscar weirdness (the stolen statuettes, the ballots lost in the mail etc) to "... an alleged conspiracy of angry Canadians."
"Energy fools the Magician."
Here is some more info:
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http://www.canoe.ca/JamOscar2000/mar9_murray.ht
From the article:
"Far from being offended by the song's lyrics,
publicist Marlene Palmer said the singer was
amused by the song and would have performed at
the show, except it conflicts with a long-planned
holiday."
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Not Celine Dion?
In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. -Carl Sagan
The same kind of person who finds out that the word "Duke" is said 124 times during the oldies tune, "Duke of Earl."
I'm sure the censors know every *blip*in' potential hotspot in the movie. That's what they're paid to do. They likely have a spreadsheet with the SMPTE time code for every middle-finger or reference to scat in the movie.
Same goes for people who numb their minds with the trivia knowledge of how many home-runs some batter performs every season, though I'm sure *that* will get a reaction out of some people.
(How many Dukes of Earl does it take... =anagram>OK, OK, and somewhat easily refuted.)
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Robin Williams, though? Yuck. He's waaaaay to corporate, even though he represents as "wacky" and "out there". He's the perfect safe choice for an AMPAS that lost all credibility whatsoever long ago. What a disappointment.
My only hope is that Parker and Stone win and get up on stage and just rip into pretty much everything and curse up a storm and do Cartman voices. Trey Parker is a comic genius. Let's hope they win so there'll be some entertainment on the Oscars this year.
Actually Anne Murray really likes the song. _Some_ people actually do have a sense of humour. She turned down the offer to sing "Blame Canada" coz she's going on a golf vacation that she'd planned beforehand.
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Also, who the hell had the time to count that there were "399 bad words and 128 crude gestures"?
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for submitting a story noone is able to make a sane comment on
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Will Cyber Patrol be blocking oscars.org?
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OK, to set the record straight, I, myself am Canadian. I was born here. Raised here. And live here. Now, I read posts and news stories about people thinking that the song "Blame Canada", and the South Park Movie in general offended us Canadians somehow. Let me tell you, that isn't true, at least from what I've seen.
;)
Sure, the film itself revolves around Canada attacking the US in stupid ways, (be afraid of our hockey sticks, dammit!) and I was laughing the whole way through it. My father, who watched it with me, and who HATES the series, was laughing just as much as I was.
Now, it's true that some Canadians (mostly the up-tight ones) will find offense to the song. But if they don't like it, they can just change the channel. However, I know that -I- will be front and center, singing along, and througly embaressing myself in front of all my friends! =)
(But only if I'm drunk
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If you skim to the end of the third paragraph, you'll see the phrase "...Canada-bashing...". What I want to know is:
What the heck sort of Canada bashing is done in that entire film? Sure Canadians were depicted as looking REAL odd... *hehe, do I really look like THAT?* but in general the only people that were poked fun at the whole time were americans... Looks like the writers at Yahoo need to open up...
Chris
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Huh? What sig?
-- Humans, because the hardware IS the software.
Just a thought. :-)
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