User:Liberlogos:Quebec Bashing Anthology

This article is a complement to the Wikipedia article "Quebec bashing", which contain the most famous and infamous selections.

Interview with Ricky Gervais

Ricky Gervais, famous British comedian, creator of television show The Office and son of a Franco-Ontarian, is interviewed for Quick Stop Entertainment. [1]

GERVAIS: Are Americans more hated than English people now in the world, do you think?

QS: I think that the tenor of conversation if you identify yourself as American is different, yes.

GERVAIS: Wow. All I can say is thank god for the French. (laughing)

QS: The only thing worse than the French are the French Canadians.

GERVAIS: I’m half French Canadian, so I’m in trouble there.

QS: Well it’s only half, so you’ve somehow diluted it out. No, the pure French Canadians are the ones that manage to take the ego of the French and multiply it.

GERVAIS: And put it in a much bigger country! (laughing)

QS: Literally, it’s a sad little world to enter into. Have you ever been back to Quebec?

GERVAIS: No, I’ve only been to Vancouver for three days, with Mr. Stiller. This sums up my first Hollywood film… They flew me and my girlfriend over. First class. Put us up in the best hotel in Vancouver. Went to the set. There, I’m in this huge trailer. Ridiculous. [...]

QS: That’s a problem I could get used to.

GERVAIS: That’s the problem with us English. We walk into a trailer and we go, “Oh my god, all this for me? I’m embarrassed. This is terrible.”

QS: The great difference, if you go to France as an English speaker, is they’ll look down at you because they don’t deign to learn English.

GERVAIS: Well, why should they?

QS: The French Canadians, though - they know English, and they refuse to speak it.

GERVAIS: They did learn it, that’s the difference. English people didn’t even learn it - we just think “No, no - they can learn it. (laughing)

Dan Savage on Real Time with Bill Maher

Dan Savage on Real Time with Bill Maher. [2]

DAN SAVAGE: This is America... Australia got the convicts, Canada got the French, we got the Puritans, we're stuck with them... We're never gonna have a viable presidential candidacy who doesn't believe in some form of religious idiocy.

Jerry Springer at Just for Laughs

In 1999, Jerry Springer was invited to the comedy festival Juste pour rire's English-language subpart, Just for Laughs. Springer played his own role onstage mocking the infamous Jerry Springer Show. The script had the show's ficticious episode be called "My Lover is a Separatist". Displaying the token separatist as a "white trash" blabbermouth spouting an overabundance of Quebec French swearwords, the script has the sovereigntist beaten up by other characters onstage, in Jerry Springer Show fashion. [3] [4]

"Quebec's Apartheid Politics"

In the McGill Tribune article "Quebec's Apartheid Politics", Ben Lemieux writes the following. [5] [6]

"[T]he language being spoken here is a distant, bastardized cousin of its European ancestor [...] As for Quebec culture, just read up on Céline Dion, Les Boys and Le Bonhomme Carnaval and you'll have all your bases covered."

Further reading

• Quebec bashing on Wikipedia